While you were busy downing shandies and lighting way too many sparklers at once, AP favorites Leaner and Pleasure Gap released a new EP and LP respectively this holiday weekend.

Leaner, which features members of Yeehaw and People Like You, started the weekend off with the release of their debut EP, Junior Upchuck. Their loyalties to Dinosaur Jr. are made pretty damn clear with guitarist/vocalist Mike Nevin’s use of a distortion pedal that is literally called Dinosaur Jr., but the three song EP shares more commonalities with younger acts like Pity Sex and Sorority Noise in terms of fuzzy angst.

On the other, more drunken side of the past weekend, New Hampshire’s Pleasure Gap put up their long awaited second LP, Cream Wave. Way back in February, we featured their then-new single “Nu Genes” via our Localz Only mixtape, but it’s like they waited until this exact weekend to release this slacker-rock-leaning, “please drown me a pool of Gatorade and Tums because I can’t handle sunlight for a very long time” brand of hangover songs.

Both albums are available in the above links and are both pay-what-you-what, so essentially, this weekend’s rampant patriotism just keeps unfurling like our stars and stripes waving in a gentle breeze.