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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’.
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Marbled Eye – “Something’s Different”
There’s no regard to slashing through the malaise here — only an intent to stand out just to feel something on the lead single from the Oakland post-punks’ new EP, ‘Forever’.
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Gun Outfit – “So Easy To Love”
Capturing a desert mystique that still exists beyond the mirage of a screen, this is the kind of place you’d rather be with the latest offering from the hermitic Los Angeles band’s new double LP, ‘Process and Reality’.
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Parlor Walls – “Arrow”
Viscerally fixated yet sharply chic in its dark, industrial punk design, this highlight from the Brooklyn duo’s new album, ‘Big Crystal Dreams’, leaves behind a scene flushed in violent red.
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Sparta – “Crater”
After all these years, the post-hardcore band led by Jim Ward is still on a mission to embrace whatever comes crashing their way on the lead single off their new album, ‘Cut A Silhouette’.
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Recommended EP: Pelican – ‘Ascending’
On this compact, barreling extended play, the resurrection of the post-metal institution continues to thrive on blurring the lines between heavy music matter.