Every week, 88Nine music director Erin Wolf shares a sonic gem she found using her nearly 20 years of new-music exploration experience. You can hear all her discoveries live on 88Nine at 10 p.m. every Monday on What’s All This: Adventures in New Music.
Math-y indie-rock band proun make music that lives in all sorts of weather systems: gray skies with thunderstorms and sly bursts of sunshine that dazzle everything they touch. The band’s latest single, “Wall,” is evidence of that moody juxtaposition.
The track comes from debut album Maybe Luck, which was written mostly over the course of two years. Lead singer/songwriter/guitarist Jamie Weed used the record to express shifting perspectives on her identity, relationships and memories, relying on an old, nylon-stringed guitar to map out each song’s beginning.
Originally a solo project for Weed, proun morphed into a full band that self-recorded and produced the album in their practice space and homes, with Weed at the helm. It captures a sincere, yet poetic sound driven by guitars and drums that sparkles in all its corners, even the angular ones.
Maybe Luck gets its release from Good English Records on June 26, and “Wall” is available right now on this episode of What’s All This, which you can enjoy using the player at the top of the page.
Best new indie music this week
- Ty Segall, “Black Paint”
- The Linda Lindas, “Burning Out”
- Finn Wolfhard, “Tunnels”
- Megasound, “Supersize”
- Palmyra, “Cheap Beer”
- Hovvdy, “Blast”
- GB, “Starsound”
- proun, “Wall”
- Sorcha Richardson, “Illinois”
- Lightning Bug, “Sun Soaked Stone”
- L’Rain, “soulless cycle”
- Noonzy, “Easy”
- Gordi, “Forget About Dying”
