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The New and Notable section of Bandcamp  never fails. "Baby C4" is the first single to come from The Buttertones ' upcoming fourth studio album, Midnight in a Moonless Dream, foreshadowing a collection of gothic, manic, unfiltered rock. Reminiscent of the late-90's, early-2000's period of rock and roll in New York with the likes of Jonathan Fire* Eater , Interpol , and The Strokes  and the current west coast works of nuanced groups such as, Sports Coach  or Spooky Mansion , The Buttertones is able to somehow aesthetically connect the dots from coast to coast, clearly heightened in "Baby C4." For the past few years The Buttertones have been making some noise in L.A accumulating a tight-nit and local following but I have a feeling the release of Midnight in a Moonless Dream will spread the fire from LA to the East Coast and "Baby C4" is the crossover spark to send The Buttertones wild. Evident in it's off-key piano chords, stern descen...

With a name like Spooky Mansion you know you're about to listen to something unique. "Night Owl" is off of Spooky Mansion's I'm the Moon, You're the Wave (so plz change w/ me) ,  which I came across through the YouTube channel (if you can't already guess) " TheLazylazyme ." It isn't crazy madness like Dessert's " Devil " with its distortions and sloven screams, rather it incorporates an eerie undertone throughout the track with a very dry and monotone rap that flies on the surface. The bass, drums and synthesizer seem to act together to bring a-dare I say-spooky feeling to the listener that does very well to capture the strangeness of autumn. The changing of the leaves, the new chill of the air, the encroaching darkness that blackens each night just meshes well with this tune.  Let's talk about that rap. The premise of this song is as the title insinuates, the tale of a "Night Owl," but more specifically s...