Signs on county road lawns and in financial district windows realize the horror Halloween suggests.
Category Archives: New Releases
Laura Veirs – My Echo
Bare walls again. We’ve hung larger frames with lesser nails.
Jennifer Castle – Monarch Season
the puddle grows at the end of the driveway equal parts carsoap and marchfly
Jon Snodgrass – Tace
I can play silence in the key of flame crashing into wick.
Seth Bogart – Men on the Verge of Nothing
The arc of the moral universe is dripping down my chin.
Lydia Loveless – Daughter
I’m blind to ends. A barber snipping air. A grillmaster flipping smoke.
Horsewhip – Laid to Waste
stranded clouds and the cricket static signal the summer shorting-out
Emma Kupa – It Will Come Easier
Oh, carpentered heart, full of Müller-Lyer arrows and Cupid splinters.
Sam Prekop – Comma
Batteries pass between Walkman and Gameboy. Report suspicious baggage.
Mike Huguenor – X’ED
My computer counts its own bytes. I guess it’s honest with itself.
Oceanator – Things I Never Said
Why, when I wish us well, does it sound like I’m speaking of houseplants?
Old 97’s – Twelfth
something in the air chases cattle ‘neath the elm
Data – Data 2020
I wish I had taught the algorithm better. Now it teaches me.
Mary Chapin Carpenter – The Dirt and the Stars
And yet we accumulate elders. High humidity, no rain.
Madeline Kenney – Sucker’s Lunch
You want to believe you can record a moment not already paused and posing.
Shirley Collins – Heart’s Ease
We owe ourselves a ballad. Verse upon verse with an insistent plot. We owe ourselves a ballad with choruses we don’t already know.
Baby Got Back Talk – Genre Reveal Party
The venter of love is a threat. A canopy under which I’m dared to walk.
TJO – Songs for Peacock
Radio versus the unrelenting glare of Grief the Mutator
Willie Nelson – First Rose of Spring
when squirrel chatter bleeds into rocking chair creak, I recollect delinquent gods
Nana Grizol – South Somewhere Else
The moths of all time fill the sky at once, and we insist that was then.
The Seshen – CYAN
I, too, have many aunts, and some distant cousin added okra to me.
Gia Margaret – Mia Gargaret
Been busy in my other future — long walks, still, but nearer to you.
Armand Hammer – Shrines
Take our taxes, take arms against us. But we have hands and history.
Katie Malco – Failures
Fresh from the Frog, it’s an all-new Gilmore Girls! Can Rory face the void?
Varsity – Fine Forever
like eye under lid, paused before a warm wall, we mime instead of rest
Darren Hayman – Home Time
if only i had given up dreams and hobbies a little slower
Thao & the Get Down Stay Down – Temple
set free with nothing to do besides believe in hand plus soap plus hand
Erica Freas – Young
Careen through rivers alluvium, past that dock you dreamed, dockless kid.
Austra – HiRUDiN
you sure raise your risk for someone who hates fate for having favorites
The Lowest Pair – The Perfect Plan
not knowing what it’s like to not be chased, I might not slow to mourn
Fiona Apple – Fetch the Bolt Cutters
you can’t start a duel without a glove; my doubts would kill for that much style
Long Neck – World’s Strongest Dog
Our clothing is wrong and houses are clothing now. Stay away, undress.
NNAMDÏ – BRAT
an adult visitor trespasser from birth
Waxahatchee – Saint Cloud
Will fall follow once we’ve been swallowed by the snake that ate our summer?
Mint Mile – Ambertron
Could get by broken until you slipped like a syll- able from mem’ry
Porridge Radio – Every Bad
SHOW ME MAGIC: a wizard weaving safety from my lizard synapse
U.S. Girls – Heavy Light
Born a pepita and paid in pumpkins, ‘course I thought wages were fate
Gladie – Safe Sins
Stuck in a pose you learned from “Yoga for Mourning Carrie Fisher.”
Califone – Echo Mine
You told me, purpling, “I am the Moscow of pain.” Meaning what? You’ve won?
Tennis – Swimmer
if shrugs were lightning and thunder were an eye roll, i’d leave you droughtless
John Moreland – LP5
build and burn at once, I’ve learned in my career as a boom carpenter
Torres – Silver Tongue
what left my chest I’d clenched desperately like oak under grip of squirrel
Huevos II – III
stories have been told over the course of the word “go,” so please talk slow
The World/Inferno Friendship Society – All Borders are Porous to Cats
After the decade we’ve had—how not to ooze gnat and oleaginy?
Georgia – Seeking Thrills
you had something sharp to play once, but now you’re caught throwing rock paper
Kelso – Always a Godmother, Never a God
Left my tadpole ass behind: a gift for science for posterity.
Caroline Polachek – Pang
you must’ve witnessed me mock the sound of you when you are wuthering