The Radar tracks new music by Washtenaw County-associated artists and labels.

This week:
North Ingalls, Fearless Amaretto, Levi Makula, RE:fusion CC:ontractor, FFANGS, Winged Wheel, Sex Kennedy's, Jakarta Kids, and Ratmatia.

North Ingalls
To Be Loved Back
Genre: country soul
Location: Ann Arbor
Notes: The long-awaited (by us) debut album by this seven-piece ensemble. Singer-songwriter Corazon Szell writes earnest, personal, country-steeped folk-rock tunes that quickly become earworms. Across the album's nine tracks, the three-piece horn section and honky-tonk piano provide arrangements that take the sound into Memphis Soul territory. 
Links: northingalls.wixsite.com

Fearless Amaretto
"Amaretto"
"Black Kat"
Genre: dance, rap
Location: Ypsilanti
Notes: Two sassy club jams from this genre-bending artist. "Amaretto" is the first new music since 2025's Take the Stage album, which we missed! But that's where the "Black Kat" single and music video come from.
Links: linkfly.to/30728wunBEv

Levi Makula
Rind
Genre: outsider indie
Location: Ypsilanti
Notes: Lo-fi bedroom pop where the 10 tracks sometimes feel like they're hanging by a thread, as Makula croon-talks the lyrics.
Links: instagram.com/levimakulamusic

RE:fusion CC:ontractor
Plaid
Genre: experimental
Location: Ypsilanti
Notes: Levi Makula makes an appearance on this album by a fellow Ypsi bedroom experimentalist, contributing guitar to the nearly 18-minute closer, "The Makula Reactor (Gastrula Extrapolation)" (which also includes a guest spot from Laserbeams of Boredom's Craig Johnson). 
Links: instagram.com/confusion_reactor

FFANGS
"All My Life"
Genre: synth-pop, indie rock, vaporwave
Location: Ann Arbor
Notes: The first new song from the fantastic synth-pop songwriter Jacoby Jennings since 2018's Venia: Lost Songs, 2008-2018). For "All My Life," Jennings mixes guitars, synths, and lots of reverb to create a big-screen ballad that could soundtrack the lost 1980s John Cusack movie in your mind. Fingers crossed that a new album is imminent, but in the meantime, check out 2014's Apparitions and 2016's Dystopian Nights.
Links: ffangs.bandcamp.com

Winged Wheel
Desert So Green
Genre: experimental rock
Location: Ypsilanti and a lot of places
Notes: The local connection for this jam-centric drone-rock band is Fred Thomas (Idle Ray), but Winged Wheel is comprised of a slew of underground musicians from various parts of the U.S., including Steve Shelley (Sonic Youth), Whitney Johnson (Matchess, Circuit des Yeux), Cory Plump (Spray Paint), Matthew J. Rolin (Powers/Rolin Duo), and Lonnie Slack (Water Damage).
Links: linktr.ee/wingedwheel

Sex Kennedy's
Suburban New Year's Theatrical Experience
Genre: experimental
Location: Ann Arbor
Notes: This five-song EP exists somewhere between lo-fi electronics and avant-rock weirdness.
Links: sexkennedys.bandcamp.com

Jakarta Kids
Demonstrosity
Genre: grindcore, metalcore
Location: Ann Arbor record label
Notes: We're not sure where Jakarta Kids are from, but this four-song EP of metallic powerviolence is on Ann Arbor's Sick Rat Records.
Links: sickratrecords.bandcamp.com

Ratmatia
Give Me the Cure
Genre: hardcore, death metal
Location: Ann Arbor
Notes: Another release on Ann Arbor's Sick Rat Records, this time by a band that started in Brownstown, Michigan, but has continued with singer-guitarist Nick Srabian now in grad school at U-M.
Links: linktr.ee/ratmatia

Send your music to pulp@aadl.org if you're an artist or label with Washtenaw County associations. Check out more local music coverage here and in the Friday Five archives.