Risa Elledge and William Wong are Tocca, a genre-defying project unafraid of sharing premature works; unmastered and raw, their songs promise much potential. Elledge’s vocals are undoubtedly enticing and easy on the ears. Accompanied by bright and uplifting guitar riffs on "What You Need to Get By", her slight husk and powerful emotional projections seem effortless. Each track is completely different from the next, and yet flows seamlessly due to Elledge’s consistently distinct and breathy vocals. Stream "What You Need To Get By" below. -Rebecca Glandon

If you’re looking forward to fireworks this year, Clouder has got you covered. The sinister rockabilly of the group’s latest single "Phantom Girl" should put a firecracker under your butt and shoot you straight off to the moon. The track launches immediately with a rattlesnake guitar snarl followed by a screaming hook where singer Eric Gilstrap calls you a ‘little girl’ repeatedly (it’s a lot more fun than you’d think). The band’s never been shy, but this new song rips things to shreds. It’s a monster of a track, and delivers the proto-punk sledgehammer action found throughout the band’s sophomore album ‘Sister Raygun’ (Fleeting Youth Records). Hear ‘Phantom Girl’ below and see the band when they play Fort Useless–SHOW HAS BEEN MOVED TO THE FLAT)–on July 18th. -Mike Levine (@Goldnuggets)

Celestial Shore, Brooklyn’s masters of syncopation and tempo changes who graced the cover of The Deli’s 2013 Summer Issue, are out with another monster of a song, entitled ‘Gloria’. We must say we’re quite surprised by this new single for a couple reasons: 1. It’s a little more straight forward than most tracks by the trio, which is actually good – we even hear a bit of a Pixies influence! 2. The entire song doesn’t seem to feature any odd time signatures – although (for the math rock nerds) there’s plenty of switching between 4 quarters and 6 quarters. Dissecting Celestial Shore’s songs is only part of the fun, because their melodies are something bordering on heavenly, and this track’s graceful regression to simplicity allows for a full appreciacion of the actual song.  This tune, together with new material they performed at our recent NYC B.E.A.F. show, has amped us up for their sophomore full-length, ‘Enter Ghost,’ to be released this October.  You have a couple chances to see Celestial Shore this week, one at the Landlady release show tonight at Baby’s All Right, and again this Sunday at the secret house show which is part of the 1.21 Gigawatts Festival (the catch is that you need to have a full weekend pass to go this show, but it’ll be worth it). – Jake Saunders

Darling Din will release their debut EP on August 9th. Each track of the EP is accompanied by handmade collage works that piece the album’s story together. Download their free single "Killing To Be Bright" and attend their release show on August 9th at The Gutter in Williamsburg to understand the story. Representative of their style as an indie pop-rock band, their collages showcase earth tones, patriotic icons, and folkloric items. According to lead singer Jaeggi, "the tracks are textured with vintage guitar riffs, fearless drums, and an elephant bass backbone." Made with love, the digital album cover is a tribute to her father, who passed away recently. -Rebecca Blandon

The cyber world which we inherently occupy has developed a uniqe quality of randomness. Something that has continued to quantify into an amalgamation of genres, styles and information in general.  Brooklyn-based, Altopalo, is a perfect example of this.  Their debut single, "Picchu Machu", is a wonderful experiment of genre-mashing; the song is incredibly hard to explain, yet exists in an oddly familiar world.  Listening to "Picchu Machu" feels like riding a pogo stick through RnB vocals over down-tempo, house beats with breakdowns that border on ambience.  Most impressive is that they’re a live band, combining live drums and guitar with samples and synths providing a surreal analog vs. digital landscape.  You can catch them live this Wednesday July 16 at Radio Bushwick. – Jake Saunders

This band submitted their music for coverage here. We added this song to The Deli’s playlist of Best Electronic songs by emerging NYC artists – check it out!

Do you like a little noise in your synth-pop?  A little synth in your noise-pop?  Then hit up Scherzo because they’ve managed to forge an incredibly unique and interesting sound.  Not afraid of a little dissonance, Scherzo combines upbeat rhythms with precise and contrasting harmonies between guitar and synthesizer.  "All I know is all I used to know," sings Robert Karpay, a composer from Baltimore whose lyrics seem to take the form of some disconnected surrealist nightmare.  Incredibly atmospheric, listening to their newest EP feels like falling through a tunnel of synth pop/post-punk hysteria.  The stand out track on their latest EP is also the most melancholic and out of place: “Taco Trees” (streaming) is a song that we’re not really sure makes sense to us at the moment, but the self-explanatory concept is enough to catch our ear so we’ll let it slide.  You can stream the EP here and catch their live set at the Gigawatts Festival this weekend, or at another Gigawatts hosted show at The Silent Barn on July 30th – Jake Saunders (Photo: Gustavo Ponce)

I Am The Albatross’ most recent and self-titled album is quite a successful interpretation of gypsey/blues rock; a sound that describes the south well, paying homage with a tasteful reimagination.  The songs all contain a surly and hung-over haze, personified perfectly in "Strugglin": "Well, it’s whiskey in the morning/Gin and tonic at noon/Pulling down the blinds in a motel room."  for a preview of what could only be a vivacious performance hit up the Empire Control Room & Garage tomorrow.  Stream the album below. –Rebecca Blandon

Exocomet is a two piece out of Brooklyn whose self-titled debut is a wash of psychedelic, post-punk reverberation.  The album has a unique ebb and flow to it, mostly existing in an atmosphere of washed out ambience. But underneath the ocean of reverb there exists traveling and aggressive melodies that carry the album quite effectively, connecting it into a sum of its parts.  Although mostly dealing with textures boredering on ambience, the album finds contrast in some of the more dense tracks such as "Cyclops", where the dissonant guitars create a rhythm parallel to the charging drums; the song structures are complex, yet rarely leave the realm of discernibility.  The lack of details about this band is peculiar yet only adds to the mysteriousness behind the album.   You can stream the album off their bandcamp. – Jake Saunders

This band submitted their music for coverage here. We added this track to The Deli’s playlist of Best songs by emerging NYC artists – check it out!

Indie garage-rock band, THE WOLF, leaves no room for thoughts. Their most recent release, RIDE, feels like being submerged in vibration. Combining catchy hooks with a psychedelic charm, howling vocals which offer fuzzy melodies, we can’t help but hum along. If you’re looking for a more toned down version of The Orwells, take a listen. You can catch THE WOLF at the Mellowfest pre-party tomorrow at Empire Control Room & Garage with Slow Motion Rider, Darwin’s Flinches and more!  -Rebecca Blandon

The no wave/art-punk movement pioneered by bands like The Lounge Lizards, Art Brut and The Yeah Yeah Yeahs have paved the way for the current up and coming sonic experimenters that continue to push the boundaries of what punk music is and what it can sound like.  Bands like Guerrilla Toss, Sediment Club, Show Me the Body have been re-contextualizing an already well known punk sound and aesthetic, turning it completely on its side, and traveling to further and further reaches of sonic experimentation.  One of the latest additions to this crew is a quirky, all female Brooklyn based trio of multi-instrumentalists who go by the name of Palberta.  Here are some reasons why we love Palberta: They like to push peoples buttons, they all swap instruments on each song, and they’re not afraid of the patriarchy.  Their sound covers a lot of territory, but each song has this whimsically dark personality completely unique to Palberta. The band fearlessly switches between off-kiltered, yet quite catchy, indie-rock melodies to monstrously static-ridden blasts of noise.  They recently released a split EP with New England Patriots, a band which exists in a similar realm. Stream below their interoperation of Hot Cross Buns, it’s a real treat. – Jake Saunders 

Bee vs. Moth is a band that will surprise you, unless you know many bands that effectively switch from funk jams or latin-jazz influenced melodies to distorted hardcore noise-rock in a heartbeat, and our guess is you don’t.  To be completely honest, their bandcamp description sums up the sound kind of perfectly: "The band has one foot in the world of jazz improvisation and the other firmly planted on a distortion pedal."  The improvisation is present, and the intentions executed from an incredible range of influences while completely resisting categorization. With two releases as well as a few movie scores under their belt, Bee vs. Moth is gearing up for their third studio release due out in August.  You can catch them tonight with Muchos Backflips and Cosms at Holy Mountain.  Stream a demo for their new album below. -Jake Saunders

When the name of the game is improvisation there’s a special connection that occurs between musicians who are truly listening to each other; a non-verbal communication ruled by the harmonic environment which they create for themselves. A connection that’s not hard to miss when the musical decisions made by the band are completely intentional, and even more so when they are indeed listening to each other.  Bueno, a five piece band from Staten Island we had the pleasure to see at a Deli issue launch party last winter, has that connection, something distinctly present in the live recordings that they have sprinkled all over the web.  Their music is mostly improvised, with song structures based and existing loosely within a post-punk influence (Talking Heads, Parquet Courts, The Bad Hand to name a few), but Bueno implements much more than that, ranging from jazz fusion, to blues, indie rock and funk in one tight and neatly packaged experiment.  The inclusion of the saxophone combined with Luke Chiaruttini’s drawling vocals (which sound like a perfect cross between Lou Reed, Andrew Savage of Parquet Courts and Matt Schultz of Cage the Elephant) only adds to the odd assortment of elements that enter the Bueno vibes.  You can see them live on July 10th at Death By Audio as well as on July 22nd at The Silent Barn.  – Jake Saunders