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This week in Indie Basement: Parquet Courts’ A. Savage, Pale Saints, The Bees, Vanishing Twin, Creation Rebel, Field Music’s Peter Brewis, EXEK, and more.

‘Blowdry Colossus‘ is Peter Brewis‘ first solo album under his own own name and is largely instrumental. “I wanted the music to be the meaning,“ he says. “the melodies, harmonies, sounds, structures.”

It’s a massive week in the Basement with reviews of US Girls, The Church, shame, Gruff Rhys, The Raincoats’ Gina Birch, Field Music’s David Brewis, Model/Actriz, Unloved, En Attendant Ana, and more.

Listen to new songs by Fall Out Boy, Cordae/Anderson Paak, Majesties, BbyMutha, Kimbra, Deary, SUUNS, Patrick Wolf, The Veils, Free Range, and more…

This week’s playlist includes new music by SZA, Paramore, Lana Del Rey, Caroline Polachek, Young Fathers, Crosses, The Sound of Animals Fighting, Sparklehorse, and more.

Listen to new songs by HIRS (ft. Nø Man, Thou & Jessica Joy Mills), Boldy James, SBTRKT, The Interrupters, Lucero, Russkaja, White Reaper, The Tubs, Orbital, Jackie Mendoza, Fran, Rebecca Black, and more…

Listen to new songs by Caitlin Rose/Courtney Marie Andrews, Primal Scream & Dexys, David Brewis (Field Music), Cheekface, Civic, Future Islands (”Last Christmas” cover), Lucius, Morbid Visionz, Bnny, and more…

The song is a response to Noel saying about masks, ”I don’t give a fuck, I choose not to wear one. If I get the virus, it’s on me.”

“I couldn’t bring myself to cover his songs. ” says School of Language’s David Brewis. “But I thought that maybe I could keep myself on the level by writing my own Prince songs. Maybe a little batch which would have been left in the vault back in ’81 because they sounded ‘too Prince’ and he’d already moved on.”