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Kacey Musgraves – “Middle of Nowhere”
Kacey Musgraves finds her way back home on the opener and title track from ‘Middle of Nowhere’.
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Kurt Vile – “Chance to Bleed”
You apparently can’t dim Vile’s hometown fanboy spirit for the lo-fi DIY no matter how high life takes him on the cool and casual lead single off his new album, ‘Philadelphia’s been good to me’.
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Recommended Album: Ratboys – ‘Singin’ to an Empty Chair’
LP 6 from the country-rustic indie rockers sits with its refined thoughts without much distraction. allowing you to process deep feelings at your own cozy comfort.
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Tracey Nelson – “Hercules”
Even with a shrug, the New York-based indie alt-country songwriter makes the weight of a heavy heart feel easy to carry on the latest single and title track from his debut album, ‘Hercules’.
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TV Star – “The Package”
The highlight from the Seattle psych-country band’s debut album, ‘Music For Heads’, leaves you with a sense of floating above any and all gravity trying to hold you down.
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Kacey Musgraves – “Dry Spell”
Musgraves doesn’t need much beyond an echo of twang and a few barnyard double entendres to get what she means here — especially if you’re not getting any either.
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HOLY DOSE – “Fluorescents”
The highlight from the alternative hardcore band’s debut EP doesn’t let the best moments out of sight, yet loudly makes it known how tough it is to grapple with when they’re getting further away from you, too.
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Buzz Sound: Knumears
Burning behind their debut album, ‘Directions’, the future is alit for the Los Angeles skramz trio, even as everything else in this world turns to ash.
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Teen Suicide – “Suffering (Mike’s Way)”
For anyone damning themselves with preconceived expectations, the final flex from ‘Nude descending staircase headless’ is a reminder that Teen Suicide is not here to do it well just one way.
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Kelela – “idea 1”
On her metal-bladed new single, the post-genre R&B futurist’s magnetic force field knows no bounds, be it in sound or allure.
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Winston Hightower – “Selfish Shooter”
The prolific lo-fi guitar-pop songwriter is a butterfly fluttering electric toward romantic fixations in wonderfully nervous its on the highlight off his new album, ‘100 Acre Wood’.
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Iceage – “Ember”
The Danish punk band grab you by the hand to run for dear life in the direction of a spectacular crash on the latest single from their new album, ‘For Love of Grace & the Hereafter’.