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Star 99 – “Pushing Daisies”
A fuzz-wheeling communication breakdown is living all over the San Jose indie punks on the latest off their new album, ‘gaman’.
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Recommended Album: Horsegirl – ‘Phonetics On and On’
The radical sophomore effort from the Chicago indie rock trio renders a wilder joy by eliminating much of the noise and instead embracing space.
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Ben Kweller feat. Waxahatchee – “Dollar Store”
The latest from ‘Cover the Mirrors’ shows how at our lowest points, we all retreat to a version of ourselves that never left all of that late night teenage angst behind.
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Steel Wool – “Fading”
A screaming cause and effect reaction of letting yourself disappear from the Los Angeles’ post-shoegaze band’s debut EP.
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Recommended Album: Drop Nineteens – ‘1991″
The Boston band’s lost album is a critical document in the evolution of American shoegaze.
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SPELLLING – “Alibi”
An electric theater of post-breakup drama sparked by an angst impassioned by the energy behind it off the avant-pop songwriter’s new album, ‘Portrait of My Heart’.
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Horsegirl – “Frontrunner”
The quiet of anticipation is what keeps you up at night, in the best kind of way on the final preview from ‘Phonetics On and On’.
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Weatherday – “Angel”
Don’t look for a halo on this “Angel,” because you might get stung with the early highlight off the enigmatic Swedish noise-pop songwriter’s sophomore effort.
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Buzz Sound: Oklou
The future-pop of the French songwriter and producer captures the everyday in all of its significances, even if the blaring bass beats are submerged behind a head full of thoughts.
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Cloakroom – “Story of the Egg”
Lucidity and an anxiety-driven waking nightmare have Cloakroom in sync with sonic cohesion, or at least their own definition of it.

