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American Football – “Bad Moons”
Like a full season of a Midwestern version of ‘Friday Night Lights’ compressed behind an American Football soundtrack, the indie-emo pioneers are really making sure their brand of wistful hits you hard on the lead single from LP4.
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Prism Shores – “I Didn’t Mean to Change My Mind”
The latest from the Montréal noise-pop band’s new album, ‘Softest Attack’, does its most to leave things better than it found it, even if it doesn’t feel that way right now.
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she’s green – “mettle”
It may be hard to envision a way out from this hellscape right now, but the dreamy Minneapolis rockers make you want to believe.
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Recommended Album: MX LONELY – ‘ALL MONSTERS’
The debut album from the Brooklyn band is an intense therapy session with your tulpa set to head-splitting noise rock under a shoegaze specter.
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Landowner – “Bow To Your Superior”
When it comes to technology-induced nihilism, Landowner’s Dan Shaw is either post-punk’s town crier or a huge hypochondriac on the matter, with both working to his benefit on the final preview from ‘Assumption’.
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Glixen – “Unwind”
The whole body succumbs to a subconscious chemical reaction of desires met in the latest evolution from the next-gen shoegazers.
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Nothing – “never come never morning”
The beauty in the final preview from ‘a short history of decay’ is how Nothing builds up the perfect view up only to watch it fall apart right in front of you.
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Recommended Listen: Converge – ‘Love Is Not Enough’
On their 10th studio album, the immortal metalcore legends go to war with the abyss.
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Cola – “Hedgesitting”
The Montréal trio extend their over-thinking punk rock-and-a-hard-place sound’s reach on the lead single off their new album, ‘Cost of Living Adjustment’.
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Kathryn Mohr – “Property”
A glimpse of hope — or perhaps just the sight of hope tempting you from an unobtainable far and away distance — from the Bay Area droning experimentalist’s new album, ‘Carve’.