I don’t think any of us was truly ready to hear the lyric “Another new year stuck inside / But I’ve been stuck here all my life.”

Alien Boy is the latest of these artists to reveal their new label home, popping out their first new single since 2018’s Sleeping Lessons via Philly’s most inclusive punk label Get Better Records with “Stuck” elevating their characteristic fusion of shoegaze and emo to less discernible levels with the help of Jack Shirley. It’s been an interesting couple of years learning to recontextualize a number of my favorite artists outside the context of a certain label they once released most if not all of their music through, which effectively-and dramatically-shuttered at the end of 2019 with-apparently-a ton of incredible music still in the pipeline. Comprised of pre-released singles, album deep cuts, and tracks by unfairly obscure artists, he thinks these guys could all use a little Signal Boost. That’s why every month, our Senior Editor Mike LeSuer rounds up fifteen tracks to reiterate their importance in an unending stream of musical content.

Chances are you haven’t heard all of it-and if by some miracle of temporal tampering or unemployment you have, chances are you haven’t retained too much of it. There’s enough highly publicized new music released every day now to keep you busy for at least a year.

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