#152 THIS IS GOOD: NEW PULP, STEREOLAB, GARBAGE, PLUS BEST FICTION MUSIC BOOK SINCE HI-FIDELITY?

NEKO CASE - “Wreck” SHAME - “A Quiet Life” WET LEG -”Mangetout” THE LEN PRICE 3 - “I’m A FAke” JENS LEKMAN - “Candy From A Stranger” DOUBLE VIRGO - “Bemused” SLIPPERS - “Guess I Started A Band” THE REDS, PINKS AND PURPLES - “Slow Torture Of An Hourly Wage” THE BLACK WATCH - “Achilles Past” PETER GABRIEL - “Games Without Frontiers (Live)” VUNDABAR - “I Got Cracked” DEBBY FRIDAY - “Bet On Me” MARTHA - “Standing Where It All Began” HUNX AND HIS PUNX - “No Way Out” NEW CANDYS - “Regicide” WEDNESDAY - “Elderberry Wine” HALLELUJAH THE HILLS, LYDIA LOVELESS - “Superglued To You” KATHLEEN EDWARDS - “Save Your Soul” DAR WILLIAMS - “Hummingbird Highway” MARGO PRICE - “Don’t Let The Bastards GEt You Down” ROSALI - “Slow Pain” RODNEY CROWELL - “Sometime Thing” DROPKICK MURPHYS - “Who’ll StandWith Us?”

X- "4th Of July JONATHAN RICHMAN - “O Guitar” WINTER, HORSE JUMPER OF LOVE - “Misery” U.S. GIRLS - “Like James Says”    FRANZ FERDINAND, JOHNNY MARR - “Build It Up” JEANINES - “Coaxed A Storm” HOTLINE TNT - “Dance The Night Away” YOUNG FATHERS - “Lowly” ANIMAL COLLECTIVE - “Love On The Big Screen” THE LEMONHEADS - “In The Margines” DAFFO - “Absence Makes The Grow” TORTOISE - "Organessen" TUNE-YARDS - “Heartbreak” YA YA BEY, FATHER TILLIS - “Merlot And Grigio” MARK RONSON, RAYE - “Suzanne” THE BETHS - “No Joy” THE VALERY TRAILS - “Everything Is Temporary” LUKE HAINES, PETER BUCK - “The Pink Floyd Research Experiment” SUPERCHUNK - “No Hope” MARSHALL CRENSHAW - “Move Now” SLOAN - “Live Forever” fanclubwallet - “Cotton Mouth” OBERBAUM - “Solitude” KEN POMEROY - “Wolf In Sheep’s Clothing” PAUL WELLER - “I Started A Joke”

SLY AND THE FAMILY STONE - “Dance To The Music” DAVID BYRNE, THE GHOST TRAIN ORCHESTRA - “Everybody Laughs” BEEN STELLAR - “Break Away” WITCH - “Queenless King” THE BEACH BOYS - “I Get Around” BROGEAL - “Vicar Street Boys” HOLLIE COOK, HORSEMAN - “Night, Night” BC CAMPLIGHT - “A Politically Motivated Conversation” HEAVENLY - “Portland Town” BIG THIEF - “Incomprehensible” DOUBLEVEE - “Everybody’s Lonely Under The Sea” OTHER LIVES - “Mystic” BEACH BOYS - “God Only Knows” JANNAH CAMILLE - “What Co You Do” BALTHVS - “Year Of The Snake” SMUG BROTHERS - “Take It out On Me” S.G. GOODMAN - “Fire Sign” SLY AND THE FAMILY STONE - “Gonna Take you Higher” LIFEGUARD - “It Will Get Worse””  WET LEG - “CPR” THE AIRBORNE TOXIC EVENT - “The Girls In The Summer Dresses” THE BEACHES - “Last Girl At The Party” IVY - “Say You Will” JIM NOTHING - “Raleigh Arena” SLY AND THE FAMILY - “Stand” SONIDO LASSER DRAKAR, DANEETTE NEWCOMB - “Cant Buy Me Love” FUST - “Mountain Language” FRANKIE COSMOS - “Pressed Flowers” BRIAN WILSON - “Love and Mercy”

THE BUDOS BAND - “Overlander” OBANGJAYAR - “Sweet Danger” THE TISBURY’S- ”The Anniversaries” ST. JOHN’S WOOD AFFAIR - “Center of the Universe” ST. ETIENNE - “Glad” DRUGDEALER, WEYES BLOOD - “Real Thing” CAAMP - “Mistakes” ILLUMINATI HOTTIES - “Skateboard Tattoo” FORTH WANDERERS - “7 Months” WYLDLIFE - “Fast Dreams” GREAT GRANDPA - “Task” THE MAYFLIES USA - “Railway Spine” SHOWER CURTAIN, FANTASY OF A BROKEN HEART - “put me on a shelf” ROBERT FOSTER - “Bringll It Back to Me” RAVYN LENAE, REX ORANGE COUNTY - “”Love Me Not” PULP - “Got to Have Love” WILLIE NILE - We Are, We Are” JEANINES - “What’s Lost” FRIENDSHIP - “Free Association” CASE OATS - “Bitter Root Lake" JALEN NWONGO - “Just As Long As We’re Together” MARC RIBOT - “Elizabeth” BEN KWELLER - “Oh Dorian” RYAN DAVIS AND THE ROADHOUSE BAND - “New Threats From The Soul”

PRETTY BITTER - “Pill Eater” THE FEELIES -”Dancing Barefoot” THE SUNDOWN SOCIAL CLUB ANAMANAGUCI - “Discharge” AUNT KATRINA - “Peace of Mind” DURRY - “idk i just work here” R.E.M. - “Radio Free Europe (Jacknife Lee Mix 2025)” WOLF ALICE “ Bloom Baby Bloom” ROYEL OTIS - “Moody” THE DANGEROUS METHOD, LILY HIATT - “I am Here to Ruin Your Life” MODEL/ACTRIZ -  “Diva” WAVVES - “Spun”  LITTLE SIMS - “Young” LIQUID MIKE - “Groucho Marx” BILLY NOMATES - “Override” SLOAN - “I Love This Town” THE LEMONHEADS - “Deep End” DURRY - “This Movie Sucks" ALLO DARLIN’ - “My Love Will Bring You Home” BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN - “Repo Man” 54 ULTRA - “Upside Down” SOFI TUCKER, SEU JORGE - “Bread” LAUFEY - “Tough Love”  NEW ORDER - “Perfect Kiss” CAR SEAT HEADREST - “CCF (I’m Gonna Stay With You”

PET SYMMETRY  - “Big Wish” CODEFENDENTS - “The Right Wrong Man” JULIANA RIOLINO, ADRIAN UNDERHILL - “Against The Grain” REAL ESTATE - “Pink Sky” CHRIS FARREN - “Cause of Death” STELLA - “Adagio” THE FEEDERS - “Proud Baby” THE BETHS - “Metal” TEDDYBEARS W/IGGY POP - “Punk Rocker” GREG ANISTA AND THE LONELY STREETS - “Bastards and Broken Hearts” FLYING VIPERS - “Astral Underground” LAURA JANE GRACE - “Active Trauma” MEI SIMONES - “I Can Do What I Want” NEIL YOUNG AND THE CHROME HEARTS - “Let’s Roll Again” FIONA APPLE - “Heart of Gold” THE BABLERS - “Where the Wind Roams Free” CHRIS STAMEY, THE LEMONHEADS - “I’d Be Lost Without You” THE RAVEONETTES - “Killer” RIALTO - “No One Leaves this Discoteque Alive” CHLOE QISHA - “21st Century Cool Girl” MAGGIE ROGERS, SYLVAN ESSO - “Anthem for a 17 Year-Old Girl” MOONLANDINGZ, IGGY POP - “It’s Where I’m From” JILL SOBULE - “Don’t Let Us Get Sick” THE ALARM - “The Stand” BENMONT TENCH - “The Melancholy Season”

PULP - “Spike Island” MAN/WOMAN/CHAINSAW - “Spike Island” TURIN BRAKES - “Space Hopper” FLORRY - “First It Was A Movie, Then It Was A Book” RACHEL CHINOURIRI - "23:42" DAIZE, MILITARIE GUN- "Tall People Don't Live Long"T JEANINES - "On And On" THE CONVENIENCE - "Western Pepsi Cola Town" STEREOLAB - "Aerial Troubles" SPORTS TEAM - "Sensible" ILLUMINATI HOTTIES, PUP - "Wreck My Life" TUNDE ADIBEMPE - "God Knows" THE MINUS 5 - "Blow In My Bag" HOTLINE TNT -  "Julia’s War" BEIRUT - "Tuanaki Atol" GARBAGE - "There’s No Future In Optimism" ARCHES - "Fold The Edges" FOXWARREN, ANDY SHAUF, Daryl Kissik - "Listen To Me" SACRED PAWS - "Say Something" FANTASY OF A BROKEN HEART - Have A Nice Time Life Life! THE WRECKS - "Speed" LIGHTHEADED - "Same Drop" JAKE XERXES FUSSEL - "Close My Eyes" ALLISON RUSSEL, ANNIE LENNOX - Superlover

WET LEG - “Catch These Fists” BALL PARK MUSIC - “Please Don’t Move To Melbourne” THE NEW PORNOGRAPHERS - “Ballad Of The Last Payphone” STAR 99 - “Kill”, "Pushing Daisies" SHARP PINS - “If I was Ever Lonely” SPARKS - “Drowned In A Sea Of Tears” THE WATERBOYS - “Andy (A Guy Like You)” SUPERCHUNK - “Bruised Lung” THE CAT EMPIRE - “Oh Eh” GIRL ON GIRL - “Okay” RODEO BOYS - “Sam’s Song” CAREER WOMAN - “Piano Song” YAYA BEY, FATHER PHILIS - “Merlot And Grigio” THE HIVES - “Enough Is Enough” S.G. GOODMAN - “Fire Sign” JENNY HVAL - “The Artist Is Absent” BRIAN D’ADARIO - “Flash In The Pan” THE OPHELIAS - “Salome”  THIS IS LORELEI, MJ LENDERMAN - “Dancing In The Club” WAVVES - “Goner” MIKI BERENYI TRIO - “Big I Am” THE BUG CLUB - "Jealous Boy" FRANK POPP ENSEMBLE, EMMA NOBLE - “Unstoppable” THE TWISTETTES - “All I Want” FRANCOIS AND THE ATLAS MOUNTAINS, CASANDFA JENKINS - “Le fil” WILDER WOODS, NICK WATERHOUSE - “Time On My Hands”

Fake Dad - “Crybaby” Lizzie No - “The Heartbreak Store” Candi Jenkins, "Cheap Entertainment" Emmeline - “Wild Horses, Running Free” Ali - “Blue Lotus” Jasmine.4.t. - “Guy Fawkes Tesco Dissociation” Case Oats - “Seventeen” Joelton Mayfield - "The Reason" Chaparelle - “Inside the Lines” Beaver Nelson Band - “Company of Kings” Stephen wilson Jr - "Year to Be Young 1994" Improvement Movement - "Too Far" o'summer vacation - “Poodle”

SHE’S GOT A PROBLEM - Hotwax DIAL TONE - Paint  OVERPLAYED MY HAND - Prism Shores RIVER - Suzzallo  JUNIOR - Great Grandpa TELL ME WHY - Anxious COME ON - Webbed Wing I WROTE SONG CALLED TAKE THE SKINHEADS BOWLING - David Lowery STRANGE - The Tubs NIMERUDI - Goat, MC Yallah LIVING LO-FI - Cheekface FALL FOR YOU - Sacred Paws SHOULDN’T BE - Lilly Hiatt I GOT CRACKED - Vundabar NOT IN SURRENDER - Obongjayar AQUARIUM COWGIRL - Babe Rainbow I AM ONE THOUSAND - The Taxpayers THE WORLD’S FAIR - Swervedriver LOVER IN REAL LIFE - Lizzo PRAISE - Panda Bear SOBER - Bartees Strange STELLAR CAST  - The Lathums ESTER WIND - Cloakroom ESPRESSO - I’m With Her, Sarah Jarosz, Aoife O’Donovan, Sara Watkins SHOOTING Star - Hovvdy, runo plum SWING FOR THE FENCES - Brandi Carlisle, Elton John