Mmmmmay! Another month has rolled past and with it a bunch of extraordinary releases. We eagerly awaited the new Mouse On The Keys LP, the highly anticipated Standards EP and were blown away by the solid math rock riffing of DJ Perro. We were also surprised to see a lot of interesting stuff coming out of Chicago this month. You’ll find all these and more in our May wrap up – and, as always, we have thrown in some odd-metered wild cards from outside the strictly ‘math rock’ canon. Some of the bands getting a shout-out this month are featured on our newest cassette collab with intheclouds: Ear Buds Vol. 4 . Be sure to pick that sucker up. In the meantime, let’s monthly…
uSSSy – Voyage
File Under
Microtonal, middle-eastern, two-piece, progressive, noise, math, heavy, psychedelic, world
Sounds A Tad Like
The Physics House Band, King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard, Holy Palms
Price
$10US (Bandcamp)
Location
Moscow, Russia
FIND USSSY ON ‘EAR BUDS VOL. 4’ HERE
tricot – potage / On the boom
File Under
Math rock, indie, odd rhythms, pop
Sounds A Tad Like
Kyojaku, mudy on the sakuban
Price
$2US (Topshelf Records Bandcamp)
Location
Osaka, Japan
Filho da Mãe – Água-Má
File Under
Acoustic, fingerstyle, folk, classical, psychedelic, atmospheric
Sounds A Tad Like
Carson McWhirter, Norberto Lobo, Kaki King
Price
€7 digital / €10 CD (Bandcamp)
Location
Lisbon, Portugal
Robert J Zimmer? – Robert J Zimmer?
File Under
Jazz, math rock, post-rock, prog rock, tuba, trumpet, clarinet
Sounds A Tad Like
Clever Girl, Jaga Jazzist, Zs
Price
Name your price (Bandcamp)
Location
Chicago, Illinois
DJ Perro – Canis Allegro
File Under
Prog, math, instrumental, fusion
Sounds A Tad Like
CHON, Stage Kids, Father Figure
Price
$84MXN (Bandcamp)
Location
Puebla City, Mexico
ZA! – Pachinko Plex
File Under
Noise, experimental, synth, drums, two-piece, trippy
Sounds A Tad Like
Battles and Hella stripped of their guitars, put through a meat grinder and turned into the soundtrack for a hallucinogenic video game.
Price
£7.99 digital / £16 vinyl (Bandcamp) UK
€5 digital / €10 CD / €15 vinyl (gandula.net) ES
€7 digital / €15 vinyl (Bandcamp – IC, ES, PT)
€18 vinyl (atrdr.net) FR
$12AUD digital / $20 CD (Bandcamp) AU
Location
Barcelona, Spain
READ MORE ABOUT ‘PACHINKO PLEX’ HERE
Great News – It Is Time
File Under
Math rock, punk, indie
Sounds A Tad Like
Blakfish, Roadside Monument, U.S Maple
Price
Name your price, digital / $5 cassette (Bandcamp)
Location
Boston, Massachusetts
sewingneedle – user error
READ MORE ABOUT ‘USER ERROR’ HERE
sicle – a s a b o v e s o b e l o w
File Under
Mathtronica, soothing
Sounds A Tad Like
Vessels, Evil Ex
Price
Name your price (Bandcamp)
Location
East Peoria, Illinois
Dinosaur – Wonder Trail
File Under
Jazz, experimental, electronic, prog, groovy, synth-pop, trumpet
Sounds A Tad Like
Jaga Jazzist, Christian Scott, Thundercat
Price
£7.99 digital / £10.99 CD / £22 vinyl (Bandcamp)
Location
London, England
CONTWIG – AUTOBAHN 8
File Under
Chaotic, hardcore, mathcore, raw energy, antifascist, antisexist, anti capitalist, gay positive
Sounds A Tad Like
Botch, Norma Jean, Converge
Price
Name your price digital / €10 vinyl (Bandcamp)
Location
Strasbourg, France
Le Baron de Vincèse – Pectine & Grotonus
File Under
Jazz, fusion, mathcore, math rock, experimental, schizo, prog
Sounds A Tad Like
Lye By Mistake, Nitkowski, ni
Price
€6 digital / €8 CD (Bandcamp)
Location
Toulouse, France
mouse on the keys – tres
File Under
Nu-jazz, math rock, chill beats, electronic, groovy, piano
Sounds A Tad Like
jizue, Tigran Hamasyan, fox capture plan, Sly Why
Price
$8 digital / $10 CD / $20 vinyl (Bandcamp)
Location
Tokyo, Japan
Ryley Walker – Deafman Glance
File Under
Folk, indie, prog, jazz, alternative, odd chord progressions
Sounds A Tad Like
Monsoon Bassoon, The Low Anthem
Price
$9 digital / $12.99 CD / $17.99 vinyl (Bandcamp)
Location
Chicago, Illinois
Dorogoi Dnevnik – Rozhdonnyy Oglyadyvat’sya Nazad
File Under
Emo, math rock, punk, angular melodies, midwest
Sounds A Tad Like
Curse League, Two Knights, The Fall of Troy
Price
$2 (Bandcamp)
Location
Tula, Russia
JJ JHNSN – TROG
File Under
Math rock, free jazz, jazzcore, wonky, doombop, noise rock, improv, trumpet, sax
Sounds A Tad Like
A noisy math rock duo met 2 jazz brass players and they got really drunk together
Price
$8 (Bandcamp)
Location
Boston, Massachusetts
Parker Luck – Where the Wicked Cease From Troubling and the Weary Lay to Rest
File Under
Math rock, post-hardcore, screamo, emo, tappy
Sounds A Tad Like
Fearless Leader, The Fall of Troy
Price
Name your price (Bandcamp)
Location
Chicago, Illinois
standards – standards
File Under
Math rock, instrumental, two-piece, tappy
Sounds A Tad Like
Floral, John Makay, Land Wars
Price
$5 digital / $7 CD (Bandcamp)
Location
Los Angeles, California
READ MORE ABOUT ‘STANDARDS EP’ HERE
FIND STANDARDS ON ‘EAR BUDS VOL. 4’ HERE
Ambrose – Adama
File Under
Math rock, instrumental, jazz, experimental
Sounds A Tad Like
Tippwerk, Cash Pony, Dirgahayu
Price
Name your price (Bandcamp)
Location
Nashville, Tennessee
Ikea Mutilation Manual – Construction Of Compulsive Chagrin
File Under
Math core, math metal, grindcore, noisecore, free jazz, extreme, avant-garde
Sounds A Tad Like
The Number Twelve Looks Like You, Ed Gein, Plebeian Grandstand
Price
Name your price (Bandcamp)
Location
Vlaanderen, Belgium
ctrlBrain – Семь
File Under
Math metal, djent, prog metal, nu-metal, electroclash, female vocals
Sounds A Tad Like
Meshuggah, The Algorithm, RXYZYXR
Price
Name your price (Bandcamp)
Location
Moscow, Russia
Cheer-Accident – Fades
File Under
Math rock, exerpimental rock, avant garde, folk, punk, indie
Sounds A Tad Like
Cheer Accident, Cheer Accident, Cheer Accident
Price
$8.75 digital / $13.85 CD / $20.85 vinyl (Bandcamp)
Location
Chicago, Illinois
Los Webelos – Brotherhood
File Under
Math rock, noise rock, jazz rock, instrumental, experimental, 00’s, NorCal
Sounds A Tad Like
Hella, Don Caballero, early Tera Melos
Price
Name your price (Bandcamp)
Location
Placerville, California
HEISA – HEISA
File Under
Progressive, Shoegaze, Ambient, Ethereal, Dreamy, Math Rock
Sounds A Tad Like
Closure In Moscow, Pinnacles
Price
€7 (Bandcamp)
Location
Hoeselt, Belgium
Sheezahee – Noises for the Blind
File Under
Folk, math, noise, pop, avant-garde, experimental, electronica, orchestral, eerie, odd rhythms, odd-metered music
Sounds A Tad Like
A cold, eerie and unpredictably night on the cornfields in only your underwear
Price
€7 (Bandcamp)
Location
Lyon, France
In Love Your Mother – The Greatest Hits
File Under
Post-hardcore, punk, math rock, noise rock
Sounds A Tad Like
Getting punched by a lightning bolt
Price
10CHF (Bandcamp)
Location
Zürich, Switzerland
READ MORE ABOUT ‘THE GREATEST HITS’ HERE
Oh, Adeona – Oh, Adeona
File Under
Math rock, Progressive, Post-hardcore, thrash, instrumental
Sounds A Tad Like
Save Us From The Archon, Weye, Dialects
Price
$5 (Bandcamp)
Location
Fairfield, Connecticut