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Deeper – “Tele”
The Chicago post-punk band switches the channels on their surging, electric angularity for something more warped where the best moment could easily turn into a horror story.
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Recommended Album: Temple of Angels – ‘Endless Pursuit’
On the Austin-based dream-pop band’s debut LP, they push through turbulent, psychedelic gazey swells where they discover an alternative world outlined by a rush of new-found lucidity.
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Landowner – “Damning Evidence”
The Western Mass post-punk band are beating the accusations by way of convincing theatrics on the small stage.
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Fiddlehead – “Sleepyhead”
The latest preview off ‘Death Is Nothing to Us’ gives off one of the Boston melodic hardcore band’s most active charges from the friction of its internal monologue pushing off the days.
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Shamir – “Our Song”
The indie pop polymath’s latest single from ‘Homo Anxietatem’ uses his personal effect to make a song that will always stands out against the rest of convention.
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SPELLLING – “Under the Sun”
Even if we can’t physically see it, the cosmic art pop songwriter brings us closer to what might be out there on the first single from ‘SPELLLING & the Mystery School’.
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Sarah Mary Chadwick – “Looked Just Like Jesus”
A pretty great imitation of how you can go about finding a reason to enjoy the moment out there in this wretched world from one of cynical songwriting’s finest.
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Recommended EP: Lifeguard – ‘Dressed In Trenches’
The young Chicago rockers’ first EP for Matador Records reps the next generation of a community not only in a state of evolution, but a hungry desire to build new branches from it.
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Shamir – “Crime”
The latest (accidental) single from ‘Homo Anxietatum’ puts the focus back on Shamir’s bold sense of fashion choices.
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blur – “St. Charles Square”
The second single from the Brit-pop luminaries’ 9th album, ‘The Ballad of Darren’, howls to a certain age in niche alternative where zonked out guitars and malady hand-in-hand with a fixation on the existential doldrums is its own kind of rage.