{"id":2319279,"date":"2026-03-09T08:23:42","date_gmt":"2026-03-09T08:23:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2319279"},"modified":"2026-03-09T08:23:42","modified_gmt":"2026-03-09T08:23:42","slug":"fuzzy-meadows-the-weeks-best-new-music-january-26th","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/fuzzy-meadows-the-weeks-best-new-music-january-26th\/","title":{"rendered":"Fuzzy Meadows: The Week&#8217;s Best New Music (January 26th"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div data-sqsp-text-block-content=\"\">\n<h2 style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">STUCK <br \/>\u201cInstakill\u201d<\/h2>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\"><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/stuck.chi\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Stuck<\/strong><\/a> just keep getting better. Three years after the release of <em>Freak Frequency<\/em>, the Chicago based trio are set to release their third album, <strong><em>Optimizer<\/em><\/strong>, a record that absolutely pulls the rug out from under the listener, evolving Stuck\u2019s sound in a major way that somehow feels both profound and entirely natural. The band\u2019s signature blend of post-punk, noise rock, and art punk brilliance still feels unique, but <em>Optimizer<\/em> arrives with a focus on colossal melodies that sit side by side with their contorted chaos and primal sense of modern anxiety. \u201cInstakill,\u201d the album\u2019s first single, is a frantic introduction, erupting with echoing drum patterns and guitars that ping pong around in your head. The song deals with the pitfalls of turning to the internet in times of need only to be sucked in by \u201chuckster gurus,\u201d a concept that <strong>Greg Obis<\/strong>\u2019 pointed lyrics bring to vivid life (as does the exceptional <strong>Zack Shorrosh<\/strong> directed music video). There\u2019s dread, there\u2019s terror, there\u2019s a sense of humor, and there\u2019s the veiled reminder that you don\u2019t need the products being sold to you.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source post-trash.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>STUCK \u201cInstakill\u201d Stuck just keep getting better. Three years after the release of Freak Frequency, the Chicago based trio are set to release their third album, Optimizer, a record that absolutely pulls the rug out from under the listener, evolving Stuck\u2019s sound in a major way that somehow feels both profound and entirely natural. The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2319280,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25179],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2319279","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-music"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Fuzzy-Meadows-The-Weeks-Best-New-Music-January-26th.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2319279","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2319279"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2319279\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2319281,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2319279\/revisions\/2319281"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2319280"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2319279"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2319279"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2319279"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}