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Buzz Sound: Touch Girl Apple Blossom
The sweet sounds of the Austin indie-pop band connects the dualistic dots between those wistful best days and the hope for a rekindled warmth on their debut album, ‘Graceful’.
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Recommended EP: Marbled Eye – ‘Forever’
The latest EP from the Oakland post-punks is an overdue exorcism not just for the genre, but in thought violence for the times.
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Downtown Boys – “Sirena”
Like their intent, Downtown Boys’ inner rage translates in being laser focused on the latest highlight off the punk band’s new album, ‘Public Luxury’.
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Sweeping Promises – “Shooting Shadows”
On the lead single off their new album, ‘You Say I Romanticize’, the Kansas art-punk duo wipe away a few layers of film and serve an absolute threat to the dark.
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Turnover – “I’m Up, I’m Up”
Turnover have already proved they can chill out. Now they’re proving they know how to let loose as well on the final preview off their new album, ‘Down On Earth’.
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Gollylagging – “Jackknife”
Good luck, but also, good riddance, as the Bostonian underground rockers offer up their well wishes with gentle devastations on their new single.
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Recommended Album: American Football – ‘American Football’
For an album so centered on inner darkness, the indie emo rockers capture the beauty of it all with sparkling awe and grandeur.
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Oakwood – “A Tangled Mess”
An early highlight from the emotive Texan melodic hardcore trio’s comeback album, ‘Blurred Away’, visibly attempts to figure a way out of deepening darkness with mathematical calculation.
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Cosmic Joke – “Referee” / “Agnostic (One Size Fits All)”
Newly signed to Revelation Records, the Los Angeles hardcore skate punks smash through gatekeeping and refute conformity on their two new singles.
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Quicksand – “Crystallize”
The seminal NYC post-hardcore rockers have done the inner work to take their sound to the next level on the latest highlight off their new album, ‘Bring On The Psychics’.
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Olivia Rodrigo – “the cure”
With the latest single from ‘you seem pretty sad for a girl so in love’, Rodrigo’s recent (red) string of ’90s alternative reverence ties itself to her theatrical pop melancholia before unraveling into a colorful symphonic explosion that exists only in her own veins.
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Recommended Album: Carla dal Forno – ‘Confession’
Alongside the nighttime, we become the keepers of the Australian experimental pop songwriter’s secrets on her nocturnally radiant fifth LP.