Rubber Band Gun Shares Surprise New Album Bloodwork Feat. Sam And Louise Sullivan & Star Moles

Within the independent music world, there's been a growing enthusiasm this year for Historic New Jersey, a recording collective and/or record label in Philadelphia making retro-tinted pop-rock, scrappy yet finely crafted, familiar but seemingly beamed in from an alternate timeline. The hype started to build in February, when Emily Moales graced us with her brilliant Star Moles album Highway To Hell, and it intensified this summer, when siblings Sam and Louise Sullivan released their charming and inspired Love & Devotion. Kevin Basko, whose home studio plays host to all this creation, has been regularly name-dropped in coverage of these projects, and it's left me wondering when we'd get a potential breakthrough release from his own project, Rubber Band Gun. Without notice, that time has come.A whole new Rubber Band Gun album called Bloodwork materialized online Wednesday night. It of course features ample contributions from Moales and the Sullivans, and if you're into the classic, slightly off-kilter vibe supplied by those artists, you'll find a lot to love in Basko's work too. He sings with subtle conversational swagger, slightly detached yet never lacking in conviction, mostly...