Album:  Difficult Night — In a Blackhole at the Listening of Distant Harpers in the Dim Gloam of Evening
Recommended If You Like: Pavement, DIIV, Deerhunter

The Buffalo four-piece released a masterful nine-song LP last week that was some 15 years in the making. The songs’ craft, both lyrically and musically, bear multiple listenings and there’s something timeless and loose in the recording, mastered and mixed by the group’s bassist Damian Weber. Thoughtful and deliberate songwriting by lead man Shane Meyer and Miles Kirsch’s wanderings on the keys are a consistent delight.  

 Video:  Komorebi — “Sunyata”
RIYL: M F Doom, Aseop Rock, Das Racist

A member of the Good Huemans collective, Komorebi, a.k.a. Pardees Gosh released her first solo video this week. The video for the song, titled Sunyata, a buddhist term for “emptiness,” is anything but empty. Quite the opposite, the video, and Komorebi’s lyrics are full of a conscientious life force.

 Video:  Strange Acres — “Parlor Girls”
RIYL: Yo La Tengo, Blonde Redhead, Grandaddy

Buffalo indie collective, Strange Acres, debuted their video for “Parlor Girls” today. The indie-rock track, recorded at Quiet Country Audio, is highlighted by the spectral vocals of front woman Molly Grace and is accompanied by a colorfully distorted video by Andy Deluca.