Egghunt Reco

Banditos: Right On [CD]

Dacus Lucy: No Burden [CD]

Avers: Omega/Whatever [CD]

Eric Slick is probably best known as the drummer for Pennsylvania rock band, Dr. Dog (since 2010) His upcoming solo debut however, sees the musician stepping out from behind the kit. The record was penned over the course of 2014, when Slick decided to leave his native Philadelphia for the first time and move to Asheville, North Carolina. He practiced meditation and Jungian dream therapy as a form of reinvention - and to write his own songs, which all sprung from these intense periods of meditation. Slick specifically found inspiration in the works of writer/actor Spalding Gray, especially his 1992 book Impossible Vacation, which details, well, the impossibility of searching for Zen. "I know it's the funny trope: indie rock dude goes to the woods and makes an outsider record," Slick says. "But it was a time of deep introspection and a fruitful period of my life. I wrote somewhere around 50 songs in 2014."

White Laces are a band from Richmond, VA. The cassette reissue Sick of Summer combines the band's first self-titled EP from 2011 with various vinyl-only tracks released before the band's first proper LP, Moves. All the tracks have been remastered and serve as a reminder of when the band were so loud they were banned from venues due to sheer volume.

Rubblebucket: Year of the Banana [CD]

Clair Morgan is a seven-piece rock outfit from Richmond, Virginia. With influences ranging from the likes of Cursive, Teenage Fanclub, Shipping News, Hum, Cap'n Jazz and several others, it comes as no surprise that this enormous collective bring their own unique spin to mathematically dynamic indie rock. No sureface is left untouched as the group expands on thei songwriting of frontman Clair Morgan with a variety of auxiliary insturmentation, smooth harmonies, comples interlaced guitars and syncopated rhythms. All of this combined leads to a unique live experience that can only best be described as a tiny orchestra playing catchy rock tunes.