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The Mars Volta – “Blacklight Shine”
Welcome back to the totally freaked out sonic psychosis that is the Mars Volta.
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Recommended Album: Pictoria Vark – ‘The Parts I Dread’
The songs throughout the Iowa City-based songwriter’s full-length debut channel what might initially seem like significantly smaller moments against a vastness packed in with descript reflections on adulting, relationships, and moving around personal hells.
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Recommended Album: Sweet Pill – ‘Where the Heart Is’
The Philly emotive indie-punk quintet’s debut LP shows off both a muscularity gained from its members reps in the hardcore scene, but also a pop fluency.
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Narrow Head – “T.I.M.E.”
Even if the path channels clarity, getting lost in space is preferable on the latest single from the Houston heavy rockers.
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Beyoncé – “BREAK MY SOUL”
Making art when you’ve got money often comes easy, but making something that makes people forget about their woes? That’s the real squeeze…
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black midi – “Eat Men Eat”
The latest off ‘Hellfire’ starts off like a sanguine escape before being cornered and diving into its own suffering mania, with no bottom to the pit.
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Irreversible Entanglements – “Down to Earth” b/w “All You Can Do Is All You Can Do”
Two new jazz phreakouts from the experimental cosmic collective featuring Moor Mother as part of Sub Pop’s SIngles Club Vol. 7.
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Preoccupations – “Ricochet”
The first preview from the Calgary post-punk band’s new album, ‘Arrangements’, continues to put nihilism to great purpose.
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Dry Cleaning – “Don’t Press Play”
With their latest shade of nonchalance, Dry Cleaning make anxiety an almost sing-a-long on the lead single of their sophomore effort, ‘Stumpwork’.
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Recommended Album: Horsegirl – ‘Versions of Modern Performance’
Every generation deserves their own homage to the greats while making a statement of their own, and the debut album from the young Chicago indie rock trio is their own way of doing just that.
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Yeah Yeah Yeahs feat. Perfume Genius – “Spitting Off the Edge of the World”
On their grand return, Yeah Yeah Yeahs stare down the void with a burning cool, and take control of whatever awaits on the other side.
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Tomato Flower – “Construction”
The title track from the Baltimore art-rock bands second EP of the year is budding to the human ear and eye, if maybe ripe for the warm weather season.