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Buggin – “All Eyes On You”
Getting attention equates to actually having something to say of substance with it on the lead single from the Chicago hardcore band’s debut LP, ‘Concrete Cowboys’.
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Recommended Album: Bruiser and Bicycle – ‘Holy Red Wagon’
The sounds behind the Albany band’s debut album trip psychedelically in color swirls, a bash of freak-folk implosions, and noise pop where the journey is meant to ascend its way skyward.
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Big Bliss – “A Seat at the Table”
The opening track from the Brooklyn post-punks’ sophomore effort, ‘Vital Return’, acknowledges modern burdens and is a plea for a better future.
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Jana Horn – “Days Go By”
On the final highlight from ‘The Window Is the Dream’, the Texan songwriter’s transfixing mystique of folk impressionism lets you step out of body,
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ISOLA – “Heaven”
Even if heaven really is just a concept that lives in one’s mind, the ambient techno artist creates a really close version of it on the latest preview from her debut album, ‘LP1’.
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Wednesday – “TV in the Gas Pump”
Wednesday make the everyday wallpaper of life sound like something worth sinking deeper into on the late-blooming highlight from their anticipated new album, ‘Rat Saw God’.
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Full Blown Meltdown – “Let Me Hang”
Insanity may be this, but at least Full Blown Meltdown squeezes a few ounces of joy from the head-wreck.
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Chat Pile – “Cut”
The passion of Chat Pile finds its higher power and yet, remains forsaken. on the first preview from the Oklahoma City noise rockers’ split with Nerver.
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Recommended Album: GEL – ‘Only Constant’
Gel’s long-awaited debut LP is a reminder that hardcore is and will always be through and through a community-building effort centered around working through the heavy shit together in unapologetically feral fashion.
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Jessy Lanza – “Don’t Leave Me Now”
It can all end in the blink of an eye, and the new single from the ambient electronic artist acknowledges that fast, fleeting morbid realization, mind, body and transcendental spirit.
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Gnawing – “Gimme Tinnitus”
The Richmond rockers reminds us that loud indie rock music always sticks to the walls while everything else fades into it like temporary wallpaper on the lead single from their sophomore effort, ‘Modern Survival Techniques’.
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Jenny Lewis – “Psychos”
We’re often privileged to hear about weirdos sketched out in detail through Lewis’ songwriting, but the lead single from her new album, ‘Joy’all’, may take the metaphorical crown…