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Recommended Album: The Van Pelt – ‘Artisans & Merchants’
The seminal emo-indie rocker’s first new album in 26 years is a road map for any young band willing to listen.
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Jxylen – “DON’T WAIT”
Staring down self-betterment, that higher purpose is elevating the young Massachusetts’ rapper’s game.
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Moor Mother feat. Kyle Kidd, Keir Neuringer & Aquiles Navarro – “WE GOT THE JAZZ”
A new track from the forthcoming deluxe edition of last year’s standout, ‘Jazz Codes’, is a message of self-recognition when others don’t yet see it.
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Mega Bog feat. Westerman – “Love Is”
The second single from Mega Bog’s sixth full-length effort, ‘End of Everything’, is an invitational to a power greater, but at the same time, can only come from the self.
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Recommended Album: Fever Ray – ‘Radical Romantics’
The strobing frequencies and experimental pop magic Karin Dreijer sings through on her latest standout from Fever Ray are merely the medium in which we realize that same energy exists within us, too.
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Friko – “Chrimson to Chrome”
The best days go by in a blink of an eye on the latest single from the young Chicago indie rock trio.
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Recommended Album: Yves Tumor – ‘Praise a Lord Who Chews but Which Does Not Consume; (Or Simply, Hot Between Worlds)’
Yves Tumor is like the god its album title celebrates as they synergizes dark fantasy, sex, lust and love, and the anxieties of today’s socio-political landscape into a new corner of their multiverse.
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Midwife & Vyva Melinkolya – “NMP”
A collision of disintegrating atmospheres between two kindred forces in the ethereal heavy on the first single from their collaborative album, ‘Orbweaving’.
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Recommended Album: R.J.F. – ‘Going Strange’
Left up to CEREMONY frontman’s own devices, we bare witness to the very strange world that lives within his headspace channeled through a music medium that’s equivocally peculiar on his debut solo effort.
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deathcrash – “Empty Heavy”
It’s as if nothing and everything happened at all on this early highlight from the loud London slowcore band’s sophomore LP, ‘Less’.
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Vulture Feather – “Monument”
The centerpiece from the former Wilderness band members’ forthcoming debut album signifies moments in resurrection and ascendant perspective.
