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Recommended Album: Chat Pile – ‘Cool World’
In which the Oklahoma City noise rockers lean into the role of the biggest, benevolent bestial god at the top of the food chain who enjoys toying with its prey right before the slaughter.
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ELUCID – “THE WORLD IS DOG”
The highlight from the latest solo album by Armand Hammer’s jagged edge is controlled chaos that feeds his primal frenzy to feral extremes.
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Recommended Album: Alan Sparhawk – ‘White Roses, My God’
An awe-striking revelation of something inside the Low frontman that confronts the heaviest of tragedy without relenting to evolve new paths forward.
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Steel Wool – “Eyes Closed”
Instead of burying anxieties behind the haze, the Los Angeles shoegaze band sit theirs right over its surface like warm butter on their debut single.
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Scowl – “Special”
Scowl continues to ascend above the pit, spectacularly so, with their first single for new label home, Dead Oceans.
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Punitive Damage – “Baptism of Fire”
To all those who think they’re being tactful playing both sides, Punitive Damage’s intent to destroy is a desire to be those goons’ trial by fire.
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shower curtain – “benadryl man”
A bedroomgaze delirium of you, your antihistamine-fueled thoughts, and an imaginary man sitting at the edge of your bed while your body turns on itself.
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Kassie Krut – “Reckless”
Former members of Palm re-introduce themselves as an electronic-pop freak fantasy that spells out the invitation for all to join.
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Recommended Album: Wild Pink – ‘Dulling the Horn’
A twist of fate in life’s journey is one that has the Brooklyn indie rockers’ sounding more alive in a lived-in reality for it.
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Waxahatchee – “Much Ado About Nothing”
In which Waxahatchee accepts her wandering thinking patterns and finds comfort in the unfiltered self-made chaos.
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Recommended Album: MJ Lenderman – ‘Manning Fireworks’
Country-smoked indie rock for anyone on a losing streak, in good company with the Asheville rocker’s slouched wordsmith ways.
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Greg Mendez – “First Time”
Turn out the light and wilt away with the first preview off the Philly songwriter’s new EP, ‘First Time / Alone’.