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Aramis – ‘9’
The Enumclaw frontman’s new bedroom-pop solo album hits close to the heart and has that quiet, cozy long, lonely December listen written all over it.
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MX LONELY – “Shape Of An Angel”
The Brooklyn rockers have euphoria within their grasp — or is it just an imitation of it? — on the latest single off their debut album, ‘ALL MONSTERS’.
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The Best Dream-Pop & Shoegaze Albums of 2025
From its foundational layers of distortion and dream-weaving resurfaced by generation’s past and present, the modern day Julia’s War contingent getting their laurels, to the experimentalists pushing its sound beyond tomorrow, these are the Best Dream-Pop & Shoegaze Albums of 2025.
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Gouge Away – ‘Live at BBC’
The Floridian-cursed post-hardcore rockers grabs you by the clavicle and rips you their way back into the moment ahead of their big 2026 with a new live EP recorded at BBC.
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Dry Cleaning – “Let Me Grow and You’ll See the Fruit”
Florence Shaw is an architect in the art of reigning in a stream of conscious, which makes the latest preview from ‘Secret Love’ all the more impressive when you consider its spiral of intrusive thoughts.
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Pelican feat. Geoff Rickly – “Cascading Crescent”
Joined by Thursday frontman Geoff Rickly, the ‘Flickering Resonance’ centerpiece gets politically firebombed for the post-metal band’s new EP, ‘Ascending’.
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Nothing – “purple strings”
The Philly outsider shoegaze purveyors ponder what version of reality of ourselves will be the true one we remember in the end on the latest preview from ‘a short history of decay’.
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The 40 Best Songs of 2025
Arguably the most cutting edge class of memorable music ushering in a new era when there’s no lost future, baby, with the 40 Best Songs of 2025.
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warmachine – “hypnagogia”
Wake up, babe. The latest single from the rising Boston experimental noise-gaze trio puts you at the epicenter between a sleeping state and full lucidity, violently at that.
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Ratboys – “What’s Right?”
There’s nobody denying what’s right this time when the view looks like the latest preview from the Chicago indie rockers’ new album, ‘Singin’ to An Empty Chair’.
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The 50 Best Albums of 2025
An overwhelming transitional year in music gives way for those creating exciting new shapes in sound across the underground and mainstream alternative to be seen with the 50 Best Albums of 2025.
