- Stellar Circuits – Phantom::Phoenix (Director’s Cut) [9/1]
- Alvaro Archaic Ruiz – Hypersigil [9/2]
- President – Blood of Your Empire [9/4]
- Showing Teeth – A Fate Worse Than Loneliness [9/4]
- 156/Silence – From a Distance [9/4]
- Airbourne – Airbourne [9/4]
- Split Lilac – Sonder [9/4]
- Innocents Torn – Severance [9/5]
- Metaphoria – The Pact [9/8]
- Rubur – Fig_ment 幻果 [9/8]
- Lucifena – Warzone [9/11]
- RØRY – Bloodletting [9/11]
- Lake Malice – I Wanna Know If It’s Real [9/11]
- Green Lung – Necropolitan [9/11]
- Stickman – Scream Into the Void [9/14]
- Jane and the Killer Queens – Best in Show [9/16]
- Insect Skin – Remove the Silence [9/17]
- vasthearts – The Color of Collapse [9/18]
- BLiTZ – Bitter Me [9/18]
- The Vacuous Touch – Tethers [9/18]
- Bak Water Hollow – Bak Water Hollow [9/25]
- Die Kammer – Season VI: We Destroy What We Love [9/25]
- Rival Malice – Splitting [9/25]
- Victims of Contagion – Egregore [9/25]
- Scattered Hamlet – Nothing to Prove [9/29]
- Ashes Reign – Awakening [10/1]
- To The Grave – Liberation Front [10/1]
- Escape the Fate – The Last Goodbye [10/1]
- Miss May I – No Place For Me [10/2]
- Shades of Violette – Evernear [10/2]
- Helen – Linda’s Head [10/2]
- Wishy – Nature’s Pill [10/2]
- The Black Watch – The Fuzzy End of the Lollipop [10/2]
- The House of Mars – III [10/3]
- Tyler Gilbert – Monster [10/5]
- Siilk – Visceral Images [10/8]
- Sunny Hallow – The Florist’s Son [10/9]
- Stunning Rayguns – novalunosis [10/9]
- Red Red Sun – Just for a Goodbye [10/9]
- Dormer. – Old World, New Ghosts [10/14]
- sphere – Circumstances [10/14]
- Holy Motors – Heaven’s Night [10/16]
- Dummy – do you love the color of the sky? [10/16]
- A Shoreline Dream – Waiting [10/16]
- SAVE US – Death to Something [10/16]
- Unteachers – Under Bright Sadness [10/16]
- Coal & Crayon – Coal and Crayon [10/16]
- Defects – Artificial Icons [10/16]
- John Diva & the Rockets of Love – Your Favorite Drug [10/16]
- Eau the Music – Light in the Dark [10/16]
- Firestations – International Dust [10/16]
- Sidewave – Dispel [10/23]
- Priest – Altered State Police [10/23]
- Nicotine Dolls – Nicotine Dolls [10/23]
- Killed By Sorrow – Empire of Excess [10/23]
- Somehow Still – Still Somehow [10/23]
- Various – Ligerhawk Records Presents Wingspan, Vol. 1: Expansions and Horizons [10/23]
- soft siren – 4AM [10/23]
- Eli Howard & the Greater Good – Lo-Fi Lowlife [10/30]
- DeathbyRomy – Teenage Fever Dream [10/30]
Defects
Five Songs I’m Obsessed With [5/18 – 5/24]
The Mostly Music 2025 Playlist, Pt. 6 (Updated 6/30/25)
Make sure you check out each installment of my 2025 playlist!
Pt. 1 – Pt. 2 – Pt. 3 – Pt. 4 – Pt. 5 – Pt. 6
Here are the tracks that have been added since June 15th.
- Cryblood: “God Knows”
- The Thing With Feathers: “Dive Bar Breakdown”
- Seas on the Moon: “Enlightenment Calls” (ft. Polychuck)
- Citizen Soldier: “Bulletproof”
- Defects: “Heresy”
- Jay Gearhart: “Goodbye”
- Grizzly Ironside: “Glory Reborn”
- Parhelyon: “Secret”
- Morgan Joanel: “Fallin'”
- Feminoise: “A Delicate Mess”
- Guild Theory: “Vampiric Desires”
- Bury the Masses: “Sweet Chin Music” (ft. Berran Lee)
- Damned Anthem: “Heart-Shaped Box” (Nirvana cover ft. Lola Rhodes)
- Seven Blood: “No Breakout”
- Suffering: “The Curse” (ft. Mia Muñoz)
- Raven’s Banquet: “No One to Call”
- Ethereal Treason: “Ivory”
- AnonTheory: “Under My Skin”
- James Laurent: “Take My Grace”
- Mirrorcell: “U(phoria)”
- Vicious Rain: “IKIGAI”
- Emerge: “Tolerance”
- Alive in Stone: “Less You Bleed”
- The Immaculate Crows: “Struggle Street”
- The Fiction We Create: “More Than Scars”
- Psycholand: “Gay Bar”
- Josi J & Dessert: “Gimme That Beat”
- Of Limbo: “Something Real”
- Seaside Massacre: “Destroy Everything” (Hatebreed cover)
- Nick Palma: “Manifestation”
- Silos: “BL4CK_M0LD” (ft. Escape the Fate and HIGHSOCIETY)
- Silent Theory: “Pardon Me” (Incubus cover ft. Crispin Earl)
- Young Other: “Ghost” (ft. Nail Bite)
- Circuit Preacher: “Blood//Smoke” (ft. Insula Iscariot)
- No Trees Touch The Sky: “Chrysalis”
- Heartsick: “Debt to Pay”
- DayBreak Escape: “Paris”
- Skold: “All Humans Must Be Destroyed”
- Orbitlane: “Serve a Lie”
- Næŕok: “Disease” (Lady Gaga cover ft. Patchmarks)
- Grave Solace: “Shortness of Breath”
- Noir Addiction: “Chemical Bride”
EPs Released January to June 2024
There have been quite a few EPs released so far this year, and I decided to put a list together at the halfway point (June). I’m sure I’ve missed several, but these are the ones I have found. Please keep in mind that my focus is the lesser known indie community. If you have an EP to add to this list, feel free to drop a comment!
Note: I will be doing a separate post for the full-length albums released within the same time frame.
- FOURPL4Y: FOURGOTTEN [1/5]
- MONOWHALES: Who’s There to Hear Me Out? [1/18]
- Penny Fountain: Attack of the Ducks [1/19]
- Defects: Lockdown [1/24]
- Sever Red: Sick and Tormented [1/26]
- Only Love: Death’s Night Shift [1/26]
- The Throwaway Scene: On Death & Dying [1/26]
- Seethe: Cavalier Dualities [1/29]
- Retina Sky: Without Hope We Wither [2/2]
- The Companies: Maybe We Should Let Me Go [2/5]
- Six Scars: The Silence and the Withering [2/16]
- Have I Weather: Zeepbel [2/19]
- BOOGEYMVN: 404: Error Unknown [2/19]
- Ty Dy: Sing Through Strings [2/23]
- 1016: Gettysburg [2/25]
- Violet Dawn: From Basement to Dawn [3/16]
- Shadows Calling: These Scars [3/22]
- The Up & Up: It Starts With You [3/29]
- Perfect Nightmare: This is War [4/3]
- Bryce Evans & the Black Cats: Moonlight [4/4]
- Patient Sixty-Seven: What If It Never Gets Better [4/5]
- The Haunt: Do Not Resuscitate [4/5]
- Anemera: Unconventional Wisdoms [4/5]
- Slave to Sin: Control and Beliefs [4/5]
- The Buyers: Metamorphosis [4/11]
- Key Suspects: Speaking in Tongues [4/12]
- Princess: Wishes for an Untimely Demise [4/12]
- Abigail Circus: 3 Ring Sideshow [4/13]
- Glis: Ascension [4/18]
- Seaside Massacre: Shells [4/19]
- Wilde Owl: Pictures of Richard [4/19]
- The Lazy Ghouls: Louder Than Bombs [4/24]
- Back From Zero: FIVE [4/26]
- Old Ways: Cryin’ Poor Mouth [4/26]
- Waverly Drive: Push My Luck [5/10]
- faulty wires: Punk Isn’t Dead…But Maybe It’s Disabled [5/14]
- Voltaire’s Ghost: Nemesis [5/14]
- Pandemic Unleashed: Return to Ashes [5/14]
- Saint Social: Don’t Let the Fire Die [5/15]
- The Ovtfit: Sunshine [5/17]
- Noiz Ritual: Embrace the Noiz [5/21]
- Pern: Barely Breathing [5/22]
- Lavender Scare: BITES [5/31]
- Ashen Skies: Ashen Skies [5/31]
- Ian Cuthbertson: I’m on a Walk [5/31]
- Central: Solstice [6/3]
- Common Vision: Where Solace Meets the Misery [6/7]
- Cruel Mourning: Cruel Mourning [6/21]
- Naked Sunday: Rise [6/21]
The Mostly Music 2023 Playlist, Pt. 3 (Updated 11/19/23)
Here are the recent releases that have been added to part 3 of the playlist since November 5th.
- Zen Orchestra: “Minds”
- Run the River: “Punch the Dark”
- AsFireFalls: “Praetorian”
- Rikets: “Infected and Controlled”
- Citizen Soldier: “You Are Enough”
- AccidFerry: “Monkey Dance”
- Eli Howard & the Greater Good: “Hello in There”
- Fist to the Sky: “These Days”
- Waiting Forever: “Say Yes”
- Penny Fountain: “BRAINZ!!!”
- Alive in Stone: “She’s the Blade”
- f1oater.: “Don’t Know Why”
- Sever Red: “Gone”
- Doom Groove Orchestra: “Why”
- Amerakin Overdose: “Bleed”
- GEARS: “My Curse (Mi Maldición)”
- Nvmeless: “eartheater”
- Defects: “Broken Bloodlines”
- Wickstrom & Dobroth: “Clock on the Wall”
- 2 Shadows: “Fading From Misery”
- Alien Cannibal: “Spidergeist”
Be sure to check out parts 1 and 2 of the 2023 playlist as well!
