Category: New Music
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Kurt Vile – “Chance to Bleed”
You apparently can’t dim Vile’s hometown fanboy spirit for the lo-fi DIY no matter how high life takes him on the cool and casual lead single off his new album, ‘Philadelphia’s been good to me’.
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Tracey Nelson – “Hercules”
Even with a shrug, the New York-based indie alt-country songwriter makes the weight of a heavy heart feel easy to carry on the latest single and title track from his debut album, ‘Hercules’.
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TV Star – “The Package”
The highlight from the Seattle psych-country band’s debut album, ‘Music For Heads’, leaves you with a sense of floating above any and all gravity trying to hold you down.
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Kacey Musgraves – “Dry Spell”
Musgraves doesn’t need much beyond an echo of twang and a few barnyard double entendres to get what she means here — especially if you’re not getting any either.
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HOLY DOSE – “Fluorescents”
The highlight from the alternative hardcore band’s debut EP doesn’t let the best moments out of sight, yet loudly makes it known how tough it is to grapple with when they’re getting further away from you, too.
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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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