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trauma ray – “Spectre”
The Fort Worth heavygaze band shakes the “Spectre” that keeps you from moving on with the latest offering off their debut album, ‘Chameleon’.
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Recommended Album: blue zero – ‘colder shade blue’
For those who wish to be tranquilized by the outer limits of guitar rock, the debut album from the Marbled Eye’s vocalist is a strange, yet familiar place you can go to get there.
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Panda Bear feat. Cindy Lee – “Defense”
Together, Noah Lennox and Cindy Lee sound as invincible as they do effortlessly cool when pressed against the wall on the lead single off Panda Bear’s new album, ‘Sinister Grift’.
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Greg Mendez – “Alone”
A hymnal of solitude with universal appeal, yet best heard in your own quiet company, just as it found Mendez.
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Ela Minus – “BROKEN”
The Colombian-born electronic producer takes a leap of faith into something bigger, even if it can feel like a freefall at first with the latest single off her new album, ‘DÍA’.
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Spiral XP – “Window Room”
The window opens pathways to places once forgotten that suddenly feel lived in once again on the final preview off the Seattle noise-pop band’s debut album, ‘I Wish I Was a Rat’.
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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.