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PinkPantheress – “Capable of love”
The latest single off the UK pop songwriter and producer’s debut album, ‘Heaven Knows’, captures the emotion of feeling a moment at its most, and wondering what it will be like if it’s ever gone.
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Hannah Diamond – “Affirmations”
The PC Music pop purist gets an even brighter shine as sprites of bubblegum Europop production have the power to outlast any negative energy.
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Julia Holter – “Sun Girl”
Caught between that space between REM and lucidity where the subconscious meets the awakened, feeling warm while out of body…
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Like St. Joan – “Cracks”
The first single from the country-fried power-pop songwriter moves in directions unexpected along its fast walk down a path of self-loathing.
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Our Lady of Sorrows – “good graces”
The debut single from the NYC songwriter puts an added voltage behind the notion of power-pop, with Our Lady of Sorrows being the apparition of a life overloaded by the thought of settling for something ordinary.
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Recommended Album: Hotline TNT – ‘Carousel’
The Brooklyn noise-pop band’s sophomore effort approaches this moment in shoegaze-ambiguous songwriting as if they’ve picked this moment to finally show off their secrets in front of the world.
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Buzz Sound: Sword II
Real life ATLiens, the esoteric experimental rockers exist in times that necessitate a mind-splatter of sound and dizzy of fleeting beings.
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Recommended EP: Cruel – ‘Common Rituals’
As if doused in kerosene, the young Chicago indie rockers lament the grinding daily malaise and burn through every point of pent up frustration on their debut EP.
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mo dotti – “for anyone and you” / “late august early september”
A new double A-side single from the Los Angeles noise-pop band furthers their rich, dream-texturized bluff from opposite corners — the former, a swirling, psychedelic daze, and the latter, the afterhaze of it all.
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Water From Your Eyes & Mandy, Indiana – “Remember Not My Name (Mandy, Indiana Version)”
Mandy, Indiana expose Water From Your Eyes’ waves of energy through a prism on this early highlight off the latter’s forthcoming reinterpretation album, ‘Crushed By Everyone’.
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Recommended Album: Reverend Kristin Michael Hayter – ‘SAVED!’
A transcendental beginning of a new book of revelations written by the former Lingua Ignota adorned by her own voice’s mercy, creaky instrumentation, and raptures of glossolalia.
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Buzz Sound: FINAL GASP
Something this wicked way comes from the grips of a Bostonian heavy music band who elude much more descriptor than being beyond all else among the damned and entirely their own spirit in sound.