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MIKE – “Bear Trap”
A salve of smoke, a slow jam, and sage wisdom helps the New York City underground rapper overcome the struggle one day at time.
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Buzz Sound: Prism Shores
The Montréal band celebrates an undying influence of the C86 sound and young adult friction with their own ever-so-slightly sweet spin on it.
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Drop Nineteens – “Mayfield”
The sound of another time that still sounds like beyond the seconds of the now from the Boston shoegaze band’s long lost album.
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Initiate – “Too Much”
A blazing display of emotional extremism from the melodic hardcore band that pushes the self to consider something greater than its own image.
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Recommended Album: Ela Minus – ‘DÍA’
Minus’ “bright music for dark times” techno coda is a shield of radiant energy to see through anything sinister in this life experience.
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Anxious – “Some Girls”
The Connecticut emotive hardcore band pick each word out with pins and knives to capture a confusion of feelings on the ‘Bambi’ standout.
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The Weather Station – “Mirror”
Nature takes its course in an ornate rapture with the final preview off ‘Humanhood’.
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terraplana – “charlie”
On Earth as it is in Heaven, the Brazilian fuzz-popped rockers skydive into a place of safety on the lead single off their sophomore album, ‘natural’.
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Horsegirl – “Switch Over”
Horsegirl are looking at themselves with as much surprise when the end result hits just right on the latest preview from ‘Phonetics On and On’.
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Ela Minus – “QQQQ”
Humanity’s last dance is worth going hard for on the electronic producer’s final preview off her new album, ‘DÍA’.
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Open Head – “Fiends Don’t Lose”
If there were ever an abyss to gaze into and allow yourself to sink into its empty vacuum, it would be that of Open Head’s sonic drain pool…
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Squid – “Building 650”
On the latest preview off their new album, ‘Cowards’, the London post-punks are rebuilding the shape of everyday anxieties around around them, far from what you’d normally expect.