Release Wave

New York shoegaze noise-pop rockers Hotline TNT, fronted by Will Anderson, have announced their new 11 track LP titled "Raspberry Moon," releasing on June 20th via Third Man Records. The album follows 2023's outstanding LP Carthweel, and marks their evolution into a full band with its most texturally rich and energetically nuanced sound. Described as their most sweeping and compelling album to date, and first LP built by a full band, lead single "Julia's War" captures a sense of nascent affection with its warm and cutting guitar melodies and big hooks. Fans of Ride, DIIV, Beach Fossils, and My Bloody Valentine will find common ground in Hotline TNT's compelling blend of youthful wistfulness and grown-up charm through walls of reverb and fuzzed out guitars, big melodies and memorable hooks.

Moving Mountains, a post-rock / emo band from New York, is releasing their 4th LP titled "Pruning of The Lower Limbs" on June 27, 2025 via Wax Bodega, their first new music in over a decade. The album, featuring new 10 tracks, including the hauntingly beautiful lead single "Ghost," showcases a rejuvenated sound that resonates within the emo and post rock genres, picking up right where the band left off with their self titled LP. The album is described as an effortlessly beautiful reawakening for vocalist/guitarist Gregory Dunn, drummer Nicholas Pizzolato, bassist Mitchell Lee and guitarist/pianist Joshua Kirby, reigniting the most inescapable parts of their musical souls in ways that are equally urgent and introspective. There’s magic in each subtle, slow-burning crescendo, the sound of a band reenergized to be back together.

RIYL: Moving Mountains, Gates, Downward, The Republic of Wolves

Dead History is set to release their highly anticipated second album, Departures, on June 6, 2025 via Landland Colportage. The Minneapolis-based quintet draws comparisons to bands like Quicksand, Jawbox, and Hum, blending the best elements of 90s post-hardcore, emo, and shoegaze, with a focus on layered and distortion-heavy guitars, thick grooves, hard-hitting drums, big melodies and singer Brad Senne's melancholic and intense vocal delivery. Where their self-titled LP leaned heavily into their love for bands like Quicksand, Departures showcases a collaborative songwriting approach, with a focus on more cinematic and dynamic soundscapes, varying tempos and melodic sensibility, tapping heavily into the more emotive side of the band. The raw heaviness is still present, but there is more variation and melodic sensibility throughout the LP, with influences from the likes of early Sunny Day Real Estate,The Casket Lottery, Sparta, Texas Is the Reason, and Fugazi this go round. The new LP explores some new territory for the band while staying true to what they do best, offering a mix of emotive vocals, intense instrumentation and memorable hooks, that will surely please fans of the aforementioned bands.

Unseemlier, a self-proclaimed heavy emo/soft punk band, is set to release their debut LP "I Have A Screw Loose, Somewhere" on June 13, 2025 via Sell The Heart Records. Lead off single "Power Chord Career Criminal" is now streaming, showcasing the raw emotional intensity akin to Title Fight and Touche Amore combined with the hook-fueled melodic alt-punk of bands like Drug Church and Militarie Gun. The new LP is no doubt a sonic punch to the jaw, both raw and HUGE sounding, featuring 11 emotionally charged punk rock anthems in less than 25 minutes, appealing to fans of raw, unapologetic music that you can move to.

New York City alt-rock band Plight announces their self-titled sophomore album, set for release on June 13. The self-titled follow-up to debut LP Plastic Sun sees the band refining their sonic identity, fusing the anthemic crunch of ‘90s power-pop with the atmospheric sweep of classic emo. Think the earnest melancholy of Sunny Day Real Estate colliding with the jagged hooks of Seaweed, all funneled through a raw and immediate energy that feels distinctly their own. Urgent, melodic, and brimming with restless momentum, the album channels the nervy catharsis of bands like Archers of Loaf and Treepeople while carving out a space that feels both nostalgic and forward-thinking.The guitars shimmer and snarl, the hooks are razor-sharp, and Curtis’ vocals weave between contemplative and commanding. Fans of Sunny Day Real Estate, Weezer, Seaweed, Archers of Loaf and Superchunk will enjoy this.

Greet Death will release their 3rd LP "Die In Love" on June 27, 2025 via Deathwish Inc. The band's music, drawing from shoegaze, doomgaze, and a little-bit-of-everything-gaze, explores themes of life and death with emotional depth and melodic sensibility. Returning six years later with what has been described as their third and best album, Greet Death face the great human problem—that we must go on living despite knowing we’re going to die, and loving despite knowing we’re going to lose it all—with great sensitivity, humor, and flourish. With this album, Greet Death have found a way to anthemize our suffering, to turn it into one great, big, beautiful singalong. Latest singles "Country Girl" and "Same But Different Now" can be streamed everywhere for a taste of what's to come. RIYL: Cloakroom, Nothing, Downward, Trauma Ray, and Ovlov.