July conjures up many different things: independence, faux-Christmas, and cold Antipodean weather. For us, it conjures up triumph. You see, in response to the plethora of math rock coming out, we’ve been battling with the challenge of making these oft overwhelming monthly wrap-ups as palatable for you guys as possible. Well, check it out. We now have everything tidily partitioned for you. If you’re looking for the creme de la creme hit the ‘Hot Shit’ section. New noise? try the newcomers section. These tabs will help you find what whets your appetite. Also note that we’re throwing in wildcards here and there; stuff that’s not quite math rock but you might dig if you like walking the odd-metered path. Now, hop to it because there was bloody heaps of good stuff this month…
covet – effloresce
File Under
Instrumental, math rock, prog, tappy, adventure rock
Sounds A Tad Like
Yvette Young, Uchu Conbini
Price
$6USD (Bandcamp)
Location
San Francisco, California
Plini – Sunhead
File Under
Prog metal, djent, fusion jazz, math rock
Sounds A Tad Like
Sithu Aye, Pomegranate Tiger
Price
$5AUD (Bandcamp)
Location
Sydney, Australia
Frontierer – Unloved
File Under
Mathcore, tech metal, noisecore, gabber, extreme, WTF
Sounds A Tad Like
you’re gonna need to see a doctor after this
Price
£5 digital / £11 CD / £24 vinyl (Bandcamp)
Location
Edinburgh, Scotland
Spiller – Plant House
File Under
Math rock, indie, emo, jazz, psychedelic
Sounds A Tad Like
A jazzed up west-coast American Delta Sleep
Price
$7USD (Bandcamp)
Location
Portland, Oregon
Death and the Penguin – Anomie
File Under
Alt rock, math rock, indie, prog
Sounds A Tad Like
The Most, Feed Me Jack
Price
£10 CD / £15 vinyl (Bandcamp)
Location
London, England
Find Yourself – Chrononaut
File Under
Instrumental, math rock, pop prog, post-hardcore, nintendesque
Sounds A Tad Like
Stage Kids, FeatherWolf, Bad Dudes
Price
$10USD (Bandcamp)
Location
Placerville, California
Collections of Colonies of Bees – HAWAII
File Under
Alt rock, indie rock, math rock
Sounds A Tad Like
Pele, Ativin and other late 90’s post rock and math rock gems
Price
$8 digital / $10 CD / $20 vinyl (Bandcamp)
Location
Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Pool Kids – Music to Practice Safe Sex to
File Under
Math rock, indie, emo, female vocals
Sounds A Tad Like
TWIABP, Enemies
Price
$1USD (Bandcamp)
Location
Tallahassee, Florida
BISONwar – Tribes
File Under
Instrumental, progressive, math rock, heavy rock
Sounds A Tad Like
Town Portal, Turing Machine
Price
$7USD (Bandcamp)
Location
Pasadena, California
Dumb Waiter – HECK
File Under
Jazz fusion, avant-garde, math rock, experimental, metal
Sounds A Tad Like
PinioL, Zu, The Pelicants
Price
$6 digital / $8 cassette / $10 CD / $16 vinyl (Bandcamp)
Location
Richmond, Virginia
MouthBreather – Dollmeat
File Under
Mathcore, hardcore, metalcore, powerviolence, grindcore
Sounds A Tad Like
Car Bomb, Heavy Heavy Low Low
Price
Name your price (Bandcamp)
Location
Boston, Massachusetts
Orchards – Losers/Lovers
File Under
Math pop, indie, alternative, emo, punk, female vocals
Sounds A Tad Like
Signals, Sketchshow
Price
£6 digital (Bandcamp)
£11.99 vinyl (bsmrocks.com)
Location
Brighton, England
Future Corpse – Culture Ruins Everything Around Me
File Under
Post-hardcore, math rock, prog metal, technical
Sounds A Tad Like
The Fall of Troy, Protest the Hero, Horse the Band
Price
$7AUD digital / $35AUD vinyl (Bandcamp)
Location
Melbourne, Australia
Bearded Youth Quest – Plump EP
File Under
Party prog, math rock, epic harmonisations, happy riffs
Sounds A Tad Like
The Fucking Champs, ASIWYFA, Alpha Male Tea Party
Price
Name your price (Bandcamp)
Location
Brighton, England
The Mercury Tree – Cryptic Tree
File Under
Progressive rock, math rock, psychedelic, glitch, microtonal
Sounds A Tad Like
Pinnacles, Between The Buried And Me, USSSY
Price
$5 digital / $10 CD (Bandcamp)
Location
Portland, Oregon
Manatree – Engines
File Under
Indie rock, math rock, math pop
Sounds A Tad Like
Maps & Atlases, Minus The Bear
Price
$7USD (Bandcamp)
Location
Richmond, Virginia
follow me follow you – Astronomical Sunset
File Under
Math rock, indie, post-hardcore, experimental
Sounds A Tad Like
tortugononima, Pele, Sharks Keep Moving
Price
Name your price (Bandcamp)
Location
Pretoria, South Africa
Lower Automation – Shoebox Companion
File Under
Post-hardcore, math, noise, punk, alternative
Sounds A Tad Like
The lovechild of At the Drive In and Shield Your Eyes
Price
$4USD (Bandcamp)
Location
Chicago, Illinois
Gung Ho Catalyst – Time Wounds All Heals
File Under
Math rock, indie, alternative, progressive, funk, dance
Sounds A Tad Like
King Crimson meets CHON meets funk
Price
$5CAD (Bandcamp)
Location
Hamilton, Ontario
The Unending Thread – NEEDLES
File Under
Future soul, math rock, jazz, prog, funk
Sounds A Tad Like
Hiatus Kaiyote, Bent Knee, Stage Kids
Price
$3USD (Bandcamp)
Location
San Fernando, California
WILDCARDS
killedmyself – Take Care
File Under
Chill beats, lush guitars, hip hop, math
Sounds A Tad Like
American Football with beatz
Price
Name your price (Bandcamp)
Location
Chapel Hill, North Carolina
Bad Mask – Posthumous
File Under
Mathcore, post-hardcore, noise
Sounds A Tad Like
Daughters, Coalesce, Pollution People
Price
Name your price (Bandcamp)
Location
Medford, New Jersey
Things Amazing – Amazing Things
File Under
Instrumental, math rock, post-hardcore, prog rock
Sounds A Tad Like
ASIWYFA, By The End Of Tonight, Ghosts and Vodka
Price
Name your price (Bandcamp)
Location
Atlanta, Georgia
READ MORE ABOUT ‘AMAZING THINGS’ HERE
kiriloff – kiriloff
File Under
Math rock, post-punk, post-rock
Sounds A Tad Like
Ativin, The Redneck Manifesto, mOck
Price
Name your price (Bandcamp)
Location
Berlin, Germany
Noema – Noema adventures live 2001 rise of the doomcloak army
File Under
Post-rock, math rock, experimental, atmospheric, calm
Sounds A Tad Like
Clever Girl, Yonen, Silian Rail
Price
Name your price (Bandcamp)
Location
Baltimore, Maryland
Plastic Psalms – Dutch Amonia Plant
File Under
Post-hardcore, math rock, prog punk, noise rock
Sounds A Tad Like
31Knots, Drive Like Jehu
Price
Name your price digital / $5 cassette (Bandcamp)
Location
Tulsa, Oklahoma
her mana – Boy Cot
File Under
Math rock, emo, indie, post-hardcore, pop punk
Sounds A Tad Like
Gulfer, TWIABP
Price
$10USD (Bandcamp)
Location
Tucson, Arizona
Meanderthals – Holly
File Under
Math rock, emo, post-rock, jazz fusion, prog
Sounds A Tad Like
Modern Baseball, Prawn
Price
$1USD (Bandcamp)
Location
Bothell, Washington
BYGONES – These Violent Delights Have Violent Ends
File Under
Chaotic, hardcore, mathcore, crust, powerviolence
Sounds A Tad Like
Converge, Trap Them, All Pigs Must Die
Price
Name your price (Bandcamp)
Location
Haifa, Israel
Los Galpones Galácticos – Florilegio
File Under
Alternative, math rock, prog, experimental, ethnic fusion
Sounds A Tad Like
Deformica, Bent Knee
Price
Name your price (Bandcamp)
Location
Mendoza, Argentina
GEPH – Apophenia
File Under
Instrumental, progressive rock, jazz, metal, chapman stick
Sounds A Tad Like
T.R.A.A.M, Dream Theater
Price
$9.99 digital / $9.99 CD (Bandcamp)
Location
Boston, Massachusetts
WILDCARDS
Milton Man Gogh – XXXX Bitter Irony
File Under
Jazzcore, experimental, prog, math, jazz trio
Sounds A Tad Like
Naked City, Dumb Waiter
Price
$1AUD digital / $10AUD CD (Bandcamp)
Location
Brisbane, Australia
Nude Tayne – Everyday Business
File Under
Noise rock, post-punk, no-wave, experimental, free jazz, math rock
Sounds A Tad Like
Lightning Bolt, Zeus!
Price
$5 digital / $8 CD (Bandcamp)
Location
Tampa, Florida
Ashley Reaks and Joe Hakim – The Science Of Discontent
File Under
Jazz, spoken word, electronic, prog, avant garde, dub, improv, sax
Sounds A Tad Like
A slurry of jazz, post rock and spoken word
Price
Name your price (Bandcamp)
Location
London, England
Pound – Pound
File Under
Instrumental, two-piece, brutal, math, grind, sludge, dbeat, extreme, noise
Sounds A Tad Like
Lightning Bolt, The Dillinger Escape Plan, Ed Gein, BRITNEY
Price
$8USD (Bandcamp)
Location
Seattle, Washington
GUG – I Gotta GUG Feelin’
File Under
Riff rock, alternative, noise rock, math rock, beefy, supergroup
Sounds A Tad Like
Rage Against The Machine, Cleft, Alpha Male Tea Party, Bad Grammar
Price
£3 (Bandcamp)
Location
Manchester, England
READ MORE ABOUT ‘I GOTTA GUG FEELIN” HERE
Glomus – Circle
File Under
Instrumental, math rock, post-rock, prog
Sounds A Tad Like
The Redneck Manifesto, Don Caballero, Sleeping People
Price
$7 digital / $10 CD / $16 vinyl (Bandcamp)
Location
Cookeville, Tennessee
MOCHITSUKI – PHOTO UNAVAILABLE
File Under
Mathtronica, math rock, IDM, hip hop, art rock, prog, experimental
Sounds A Tad Like
CHON, The Mars Volta, Squarepusher
Price
Name your price (Bandcamp)
Location
Jersey City, New Jersey
DON PIE PIE – DPP1
File Under
Instrumental, math rock, space rock, post-rock, prog, synthesisers
Sounds A Tad Like
Three Trapped Tigers, The Physics House Band
Price
€3 (Bandcamp)
Location
Oporto, Portugal
and Alice – With Friends
File Under
Two-piece, math rock, emo, indie, tropical
Sounds A Tad Like
Pedro Don Key, noumenon, Nengu
Price
Name your price (Bandcamp)
Location
Bath, England
Fragments in Motion – Omniscient
File Under
Instrumental, progressive metal, mathcore, djent, jazz, groove metal
Sounds A Tad Like
Animals as Leaders
Price
$4.95USD (Bandcamp)
Location
New City, New York
NegativeNative – NegativeNative
File Under
Screamo, mathcore, punk, experimental
Sounds A Tad Like
Octaves, Caravels, These Arms Are Snakes
Price
$5USD (Bandcamp)
Location
Los Angeles, California
Scrimshaw – L20 With Jack Meidel
File Under
Math rock, prog, fusion, funk
Sounds A Tad Like
We’ve gonna have to get back to you on this one…
Price
$1USD (Bandcamp)
Location
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Elaine The Singer – Demos
File Under
Math rock, angular, side project (Floral)
Sounds A Tad Like
You Slut!, Giraffes? Giraffes!
Price
Name your price (Bandcamp)
Location
Los Altos Hills, California
Ladybug – Love Songs
File Under
Math rock, instrumental, punk
Sounds A Tad Like
31Knots, Town Portal
Price
Name your price (Bandcamp)
Location
Fort Worth, Texas
Woes – Zoodreams
File Under
Post rock, emo, shoegaze
Sounds A Tad Like
Tom’s Story, Nothing
Price
$4SGD (Bandcamp)
Location
Singapore
Sarikaya – Rostami EP
File Under
Post-rock, instrumental, experimental
Sounds A Tad Like
Maybeshewill, Brontide
Price
Name your price (Bandcamp)
Location
Denton, Texas
Sum of Us – Sharp Turns in Dark Tunnels
File Under
Progressive rock, metal, hardcore
Sounds A Tad Like
Kodiak Empire, Birds Of Tokyo
Price
$7AUD (Bandcamp)
Location
Brisbane, Australia
Waxamillion – Incensored
File Under
Instrumental, djent, hip-hop, math rock
Sounds A Tad Like
Owane, CHON
Price
$5USD (Bandcamp)
Location
Austria
Wsabi Fox – GUSHING
File Under
Noise rock, punk, math rock, looping
Sounds A Tad Like
Bent Knee, Supplier
Price
$3.33USD (Bandcamp)
Location
Brooklyn, New York
WILDCARDS
Ptichiy Dom – midsummer
File Under
Experimental, instrumental, lo-fi, hip-hop
Sounds A Tad Like
Remixes of your favourite math rock albums
Price
$2USD (Bandcamp)
Location
Russia
Flaaryr – 8 nuevas formas de jugar al jenga
File Under
Acoustic, looping, math
Sounds A Tad Like
Bring Back The Triceratops!, Cheval de Frise
Price
Name your price (Bandcamp)
Location
Buenos Aires, Argentina
Make Peace – Joyful Mood
File Under
Math rock, post-rock, ambient rock, spoken word, emo, calm
Sounds A Tad Like
Seahorse Divorce, sleepmakeswaves
Price
Name your price (Bandcamp)
Location
Perth, Australia
Animation Sequence – Glitch Roots Ingrained
File Under
Technical metal, math metal, cyber metal, instrumental, extreme, glitch
Sounds A Tad Like
Meshuggah, Necrophagist
Price
$4USD (Bandcamp)
Location
Spokane, Washington
Koenji Hyakkei – DHORIMVISKHA
File Under
Progressive rock, zeuhl, orchestral
Sounds A Tad Like
Ruins, Happy Family, Magma
Price
¥1,000 (Bandcamp)
Location
Tokyo, Japan
READ MORE ABOUT ‘DHORIMVISKHA’ HERE
Miracle Condition – III
File Under
Noise rock, shoegaze, punk, post-punk
Sounds A Tad Like
Fugazi, U.S. Maple, Shorty
Price
$10USD (Bandcamp)
Location
Chicago, Illinois
Between The Buried And Me – Automata II
File Under
Progressive rock, metal, hardcore
Sounds A Tad Like
Trioscapes, Dream Theater, King Crimson
Price
$9.99 CD / $23 vinyl (sumerianmerch.com)
Location
Raleigh, North Carolina
Bellini – Before The Day Has Gone
File Under
Post-hardcore, noise rock, post-punk, Damon Che
Sounds A Tad Like
Polvo, Uzeda
Price
$10 digital / $15 vinyl (Bandcamp)
Location
Sizilien, Italy
Journal – Chrysalis Ordalias
File Under
Metal, progressive, mathcore, experimental
Sounds A Tad Like
The Human Abstract, Five Star Prison Cell
Price
$8 digital / $13 CD (vocal or instrumental) / $25 both CDs (Bandcamp)
Location
Sacramento, California
Clónicos – BURNT HITS
File Under
Jazz, zeuhl, experimental, weird, Re-release
Sounds A Tad Like
Frank Zappa, Koneji Hyakkei
Price
€7 (Bandcamp)
Location
Madrid, Spain
WILDCARDS
Dirty Projectors – Lamp Lit Prose
File Under
Indie, alternative, pop
Sounds A Tad Like
Tune Yards, The Books
Price
$9.99USD (Bandcamp)
Location
Brooklyn, New York
Talons – We All Know
File Under
Indie, post-hardcore, post-metal, post-rock, rock
Sounds A Tad Like
Brontide, Pelican, Tides Of Man
Price
£7.99 digital / £9.99 CD / £16.99 vinyl (Bandcamp)
Location
Hereford, England