Best Austin albums of 2022
What the year also did was provide an opportunity for a considerable amount of great music to be released that helped make up this year’s best Austin albums list of 2022.
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Song Premiere: Austin act The Sour Notes dropped Middle Distance this month
While Austin’s powerhouse indie rock outfit, The Sour Notes, is gearing up to release a new album, The Cosmic Clash is proud to premiere the first single “Middle Distance”. The track is mixed by Steve Christensen and mastered by Joe LaPorta who’s worked on every Sour Notes song.
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Live music preview: Wizard Rodeo festival takes place Saturday at The Longtime
The 2nd installment of the aptly titled Wizard Rodeo takes place this Saturday at the unique event space The Longtime ballpark, located a few miles east of Austin. This Austin-centric music, art, and vibe festival promises to provide a low-key, small-scale festival experience featuring some of Austin’s notable music performers and art vendors.
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Album Review: London’s Dry Cleaning release their masterful sophomore album, “Stumpwork”
With their latest record, Stumpwork, London’s Dry Cleaning announced themselves as one of the most unique bands in modern music. The quartet’s sophomore full-length effort was released on October 21 on the 4AD label.
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Song Review: “No Sleep” by Solo Solo delivers distorted Dream Pop
Self-proclaimed bedroom pop sibling duo Solo Solo arrives on the Austin music scene with debut track “No Sleep”. Released in late September, the song was recorded in a storage unit in Austin over quarantine.
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Song review: Slowly by Austin artist NOA is intimate listening
Imagine slow dancing in your bedroom, pressed into your partner, lights dimmed low. Austin-based solo artist NOA calls you to strip down your layers to the most vulnerable core. “Slowly” by NOA starts with light, soulful cymbals and whimsical hi hats to prelude chr0niac’s reggae inspired harmonies on electric guitar.
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Album review: New project, Caramelo Haze dropped NOESTÁSAQUI last Friday
Music fans in Austin know to keep track of what Grammy-winning and multi-Grammy nominated Adrian Quesada (Black Pumas, Spanish Gold, Grupo Fantasma) is doing because d’uh! It also pays to track his bandmates. Musicians Beto Martinez (guitar) and John Spiece (drums) also have Grammys at home as founding members of Grupo. They also have a new project called Caramelo Haze who dropped their debut album last Friday on Nacional Records called NOESTÁSAQUI. We’ll let the band tell you what it is…
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Song Review: Shae Lane drops new single “Let me In”
Anyone who has fallen in love knows what it feels like at the very beginning: elation and euphoria punctuated by a sense of vulnerability at not knowing if this mutual attraction is actually something more– something real.
The new song “Let Me In” by indie-pop singer/songwriter Shae Lane captures this bittersweet feeling perfectly.
Album Review: Ambitions of Ambiguity by Buffalo Hunt
Last month saw Buffalo Hunt release Ambitions of Ambiguity – a warm, potent, bourbon-spiked peach cobbler that starts sweet on the tongue before warming your insides with an ennui that perfectly captures this moment in time.
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Live music review: Spiritualized at Scoot Inn Friday was magical
On a near-perfect, Friday evening, English space-rock outfit Spiritualized returned to Austin to play a sold-out Scoot Inn. The nine-piece band brought by J Spaceman (aka Jason Pierce) that included three female backup singers delivered a magical, neo-psychrock performance to fans.
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Live music review: Dead Coats video release with Transy Warhol and Animals on TV
Last Friday at Austin’s Kickbutt Coffee off Airport Boulevard, The Dead Coats released a music video for their latest track, ‘Fire Again’. Transy Warhol and Animals on TV provided support for the riotous, punk act.
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