Hand Habits "Blue Reminder" Smashing Pumpkins "Mayonaise Dream" REO Speedwagon

REO Speedwagon

and psychedelia together into an addictive listening experience and this new record is no exception

communal exorcism and personal excavation

sometimes within a song itself

With tremendous self-created pressure

Hand Habits "Blue Reminder" Smashing Pumpkins "Mayonaise Dream" REO SpeedwagonMeg Duffy of Hand Habits wrote new album Blue Reminder as a reaction to what one does when happiness actually comes knocking. After years of collaborating and touring with musicians like Kevin Morby and Perfume Genius, Duffy still draws on the solace of that community, but takes center stage, with their most assured, classic songwriting yet against a backstop of nuanced instrumentation and moving testimony. The record is a celebration of commitment: