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Recommended Album: Pool Kids – ‘Pool Kids’
When the Tallahassee emo band goes big, they level up and make a splash on their sophomore effort.
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Regulate – “Why Can’t We?”
Fast, furious with with a flair for the NY melodic hardcore band’s own identity in Latin music bubbling beneath, this one knows and stays true to the self.
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Ela Minus & DJ Python – “Pájaros en Verano”
Ela Minus softens the bulbs in a reprieve for personal space and meditation on alongside fellow NYC-based producer DJ Python on the first offering from their joint EP.
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Yeah Yeah Yeahs – “Burning”
Engulfed by memory, Karen O is the patron saint of effigy, guiding the path of flames around her on the latest preview from ‘Cool It Down’.
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Alvvays – “Easy On Your Own?”
Maximized in technicolor sound through soaring anthem and HD production, the Toronto dream-pop rockers capture a singular focus of by not letting any of the crushed wooziness of life in a whirl out of their frame.
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No Age – “Tripped Out Before Scott”
Electricity running through coarse chords, a steady snare surfing over tempo, and eventually all-consuming its expanding energy, Dean Spunt and Randy Randall tap into the psyche wonders in good company with the latest from ‘People Helping People’.
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2nd Grade – “Strung Out On You”
The sounds of the ‘70s and Big Star influence lives on the surface, but so are the Philly power-pop band’s own way of telling on the heart in every word along the way with the first preview off their sophomore effort, ‘Easy Listening’.
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High Vis – “Trauma Bonds”
The emotional centerpiece of the London post-punk and hardcore-indebted band’s forthcoming sophomore effort, ‘Blending’.
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The Mars Volta – “Vigil”
The latest preview from the Mars Volta’s return album is more outwardly political in tongue-slitting throats, though its cosmic groove continues to evolve that angry energy into a vibe out that carries further.
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Thanya Iyer – “slow burn”
Self-care meditative properties have always played an important part in the spiritual sound growing from the Montreal-based artist’s music, but here it feels even more so necessary.
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Recommended Album: Chat Pile – ‘God’s Country’
Splattered noise and unfiltered disgust color over endless blue skies, painting the picturesque American horror on the Oklahoma City noise rockers’ unforgiving debut full-length.
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Stella Donnelly – “How Was Your Day?”
The latest preview from the Australian songwriter’s sophomore effort, ‘Flood’, presses on the conversation that’s been avoidant.