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The Beths – “Knees Deep”
If playing it safe prevents Elizabeth Stokes from living out loud, it definitely doesn’t show in song…
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Lande Hekt – “Backstreet Snow”
It’s sunny even when a storm comes blowing through on the the latest preview from the Muncie Girls frontwoman’s sophomore solo effort, ‘House With a View’.
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Recommended Album: Why Bonnie – ‘90 In November’
The debut full-length from the Austin indie rockers with a country charm makes from music the physical sensation of being on a long walk on a balmy day under a sun-stretched sky with memory as your constant companion.
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Sparta – “Mind Over Matter” b/w “Spiders”
Jim Ward ventures Sparta’s trademark sound of crashing atmospheric signals through sunburnt airwaves and sweeping gothic landscapes on the first two offerings from the veteran post-hardcore band’s new album.
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Dougie Poole – “High School Gym”
The latest single from the Brooklyn cosmic countrypolitan songwriter’s new album, ‘The Rainbow Wheel of Death’, taps into a place only known in dreams.
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Recommended Album: Beyoncé – ‘RENAISSANCE’
A celebration of Black dance music spanning across the last several decades that have permeated the culture at large, Queen Bey’s seventh studio album has made that house (and club, and disco scene) her own dance floor.
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Iceage – “Shake The Feeling”
The title track of the Danish punks’ new outtakes and rarities compilation captures the spirit of what has become known as the Iceage era: loose, rowdy, dark, howling, and ambitious.
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Recommended Listen: Healing Potpourri – ‘Paradise’
Easy listening isn’t so easy to make interesting, but Simi Sohota has reengineered the power of the calm vibe with Healing Potpourri’s fourth full-length effort.
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Peel Dream Magazine – “Pad”
Peel Dream Magazine eschews distraction and creates a balm of music that gives you every reason to sink into carelessness comfort on the lead single and title track off the noise-pop artist’s new album.
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No Devotion – “Repeaters”
The second single from No Devotion’s self-titled sophomore effort channels what has long been a creative spiritual journey among its three moving human parts.
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Margaritas Podritas – “No Quiero ser Madre”
Torn apart in just under two minutes, the Hermosillo, Mexico-based quartet’s contribution to Suicide Squeeze’s Pinks & Purples digital singles series is righteously raged in our current turmoil surrounding reproductive rights.
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Scout Gillett – “signal”
The Brooklyn-by-way-of-Kansas City songwriter has a strange alchemy as she blinkers a “signal” toward the release of her debut album, ‘no roof no floor’.