Category: New Music
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Mindforce – “Words Fail”
Methodical brutalism delivers the coup de grâce in axe form on the latest single from ‘New Lords’.
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Young Jesus feat. Tomberlin – “Ocean”
Joined by Tomberlin, Young Jesus turn the sea changes of the id into something more than questions of the divine on the lead single off ‘Shepherd Head’.
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Cold Gawd – “Gin”
The latest preview off the Rancho Cucamonga shoegaze band’s sophomore LP, ‘God Get Me the Fuck Out of Here’ drowns beneath a place of no return and finds an unknown bliss in it.
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Alicia Clara – “Only Fools Wish for Love”
The Swiss-Canadian dream-pop songwriter makes it easy to hear how anyone could get caught up in this kind of destructive wishful thinking when it sounds this good.
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Teen Suicide – “new strategies for telemarketing through precognitive dreams”
Noise and nihilism are no stranger to Sam Ray, though distancing his sound from its its most discordant aspects rears a strange peace between existential terror and ease.
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The Beths – “Knees Deep”
If playing it safe prevents Elizabeth Stokes from living out loud, it definitely doesn’t show in song…
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Lande Hekt – “Backstreet Snow”
It’s sunny even when a storm comes blowing through on the the latest preview from the Muncie Girls frontwoman’s sophomore solo effort, ‘House With a View’.
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Sparta – “Mind Over Matter” b/w “Spiders”
Jim Ward ventures Sparta’s trademark sound of crashing atmospheric signals through sunburnt airwaves and sweeping gothic landscapes on the first two offerings from the veteran post-hardcore band’s new album.
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Dougie Poole – “High School Gym”
The latest single from the Brooklyn cosmic countrypolitan songwriter’s new album, ‘The Rainbow Wheel of Death’, taps into a place only known in dreams.
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Iceage – “Shake The Feeling”
The title track of the Danish punks’ new outtakes and rarities compilation captures the spirit of what has become known as the Iceage era: loose, rowdy, dark, howling, and ambitious.