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Recommended Album: This Is Lorelei – ‘The Singer in My Band’
This Is Lorelei… now, as Nate Amos turns his attention fully toward a lived-in, rustic alt-country tunefulness with its cracks smoothed over in the studio on his sophomore LP and Matador debut.
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Lily Konigsberg – “Free Byrd”
If you love it, set it so, but in Lily Konigsberg’s case, she’s at her best she just hers and hers alone on her new single.
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untitled (halo) – “easy rider”
The Los Angeles neo-shoegazers’ adoration to the classic alternative isn’t imitation — it’s homage while breaking through to the future.
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Recommended Album: Turnover – ‘Down On Earth’
The multi-faceted rockers’ 6th album is their most extraterrestrial affair yet — one in which their world of beyondness and that which they inhabit collide through yet another seasonal shift in their sound.
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Starcleaner Reunion – “Lay On Plastic Moment”
Blurring the moment in past reflection, the dreamy NYC rockers reveal how time is always a force of change with the final preview from ‘Umbrella’.
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Anxious – “Secret Weapon”
Even if the machine is wired all wrong these days, Anxious’ game is running on pure intention as they mature into alt-rock-riffed post-hardcore territory on their latest single.
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Gouge Away – “Wasp” (Wednesday Cover)
Rarely do covers sound like a song’s origin story, but this standout by the post-hardcore noisemakers from ‘Bleeds Deluxe’ breaks that mold.
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HAYWIRE – “SINCERELY YOURS”
The second heater from the Boston hardcore punk band’s new album ‘I Don’t Wanna Say Goodbye’ doubles down on anthems to rage away the pain to.
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Liars – “Ice Pick, Kalamazoo”
Angus Andrew takes an axe to the ridiculousness of American bureaucracy on the lead single off the art-rockers’ 10th studio album, ‘A Ban On Plastic Bag Bans’.