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SZA – “Shirt”
“Shirt” is bladed with admissions that color relationships a violent red with the kind of cool chaos SZA can only bleed into existence.
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Sobs – “Last Resort”
The highlight from the Singapore indie-pop trio’s sophomore effort, ‘Air Guitar’, is the first place you want to go when your own second-guessing of a new romance starts to get the best of you.
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Recommended Album: MAVI – ‘Laughing so Hard, it Hurts’
The Carolina rapper is just figuring this life (and its “jokes”) out, and with that, we’re privy to be a part of that journey with him, cracks in the sidewalk and all.
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Show Me the Body – “WW4″
A visceral display of uneasy tension manifesting its way into something all the more heavier and all-consuming from the experimental hardcore band’s new album ‘Trouble the Water’.
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Anxious – “Where You Been”
The emotive Connective punk band’s softer anxieties are filled with power-pop harmonies, synth spirals, and reflective pianos that show how much they’ve grown out there while undergoing the growing pains that come with living out their dream.
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Recommended Album: Knifeplay – ‘Animal Drowning’
On their debut album, the Philly experimental rockers bound light and darkness into their own singular prism of alternative in a way that breathes a new life into it, and ponders it all deeply.
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fleshwater – “The Razor’s Apple”
It’s the danger in the ear candy that makes their kind of heavy a real twisted treat…
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Recommended Album: Taylor Swift – ‘Midnights’
One of Swift’s most cohesively-designed albums in mood and theme, further expanding her musical multi-universe by yet another layer.
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Gold Dust – “Mountain Laurel”
The latest preview off the Western Mass psych-folk artist’s new album basks in the journey of uncertainty of this life by immersing the self in what is known naturally.
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CUSTOMER – “Floorboards” b/w “Absolutely Nothing”
The new band led by former Doe vocalist Nicola Leel easily bursts through the excitement barrier thanks in part to fresh nerves.
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Militarie Gun feat. MSPAINT’s Deedee – “Can’t Get None”
Joined by MSPAINT’s Deedee, Militarie Gun break from the leash and continue carving out a self-made identity in their evolving hardcore.
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Recommended Album: They Are Gutting a Body of Water – ‘lucky styles’
The third full-length effort from the Philly experimental band realizes their most wildest yet appeasing impulses in one sitting.