Category: New Music
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Karate – “Silence, Sound”
The early highlight from the Boston post-emo band’s return album, ‘Make It Fit’, is a reminder of yesterday’s path, but also where they are today, all the more tired by life.
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Big Ups – “Goes Black (This Is Lorelei Remix)”
This Is Lorelei pulls the velocity from the NYC post-hardcore band’s brainy, existential headbash through an electronic centrifuge for its 10th anniversary.
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Dummy – “Nine Clean Nails”
The softer sides of Dummy swell until they eventually burst as colorful mania on the latest preview off ‘Pure Energy’.
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collisions – “happenstance”
Even if you’re not into the woo-woo of everything happening for a reason, the Western Mass emo rock band plots out a convincing reason to suspend belief.
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Cold Gawd – “Gorgeous”
A change of scenery and taking stock in the self doesn’t always make the view any better on the latest preview off ‘I’ll Drown On This Earth’.
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Touché Amoré – “Nobody’s”
It’s always a form of progress in the spite of life’s disarray on the lead single from the Los Angeles post-hardcore band’s sixth studio effort, ‘Spiral In a Straight Line’.
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Enumclaw – “Not Just Yet”
The hands of time are just far too heavy to pull back on the latest single off the PNW indie rockers’ sophomore effort, ‘Home in Another Life’.
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Balance and Composure – “believe the hype”
There’s no mistaking lust for passion here when Balance and Composure are bleeding out for an audience on the latest preview off their return album, ‘with you in spirit’.
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oso oso – “that’s what time does”
If timeless hook-driven, power-pop-indebted emo sap is what you get when you let your heart lose, it’s a perfect consolation…
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Alan Sparhawk – “Can U Hear”
Forget what you know of Low’s Alan Sparhawk on the ambiguous lead impression from his forthcoming solo album, ‘White Roses, My God’.