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Sprain – “We Think So Ill of You”
An uncomfortably loud listen from the Los Angeles experimental noise-rockers’ sophomore LP, but it’s hard to turn away.
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Recommended Album: Mary Jane Dunphe – ‘Stage of Love’
The fascinating debut album from the NYC-based songwriter smears feelings of forlorn across heavy brush strokes of ’80s synth-pop and wild lines of amorphous guitar rock that singe through the listen’s harnessing of self-preservation energy.
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Citizen – “Hyper Trophy”
The second single from ‘Calling the Dogs’ is an exercise in how a “hardcore adjacent” band can still pump muscularity into their art by perfecting their form.
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Recommended Album: Fiddlehead – ‘Death Is Nothing to Us’
On their third LP, the Boston post-hardcore rockers are barreling harder than ever into the void, doing their most to avoid it, and making every second count for us all.
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L’Rain – “Pet Rock”
From her new album, ‘I Killed Your Dog’, the Brooklyn multi-instrumentalist challenges modern rock conventions by melting anyone who comes into contact with her sound.
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Reverend Kristin Michael Hayter – “ALL MY FRIENDS ARE GOING TO HELL”
Using God to instill fear in others is a tale as old as testament, and on the first single from ‘SAVED!’, Reverend Kristin Michael Hayter wields its powers as they were intended.
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SPELLLING – “Hard to Please (Reprise)”
In another reimagination from her new album, ‘SPELLLING & the Mystery School’, Chrystia Cabral and company bring hard-earned lust to life.
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The Serfs – “Club Deuce”
The transfiguring lead single from the Cincinnati electronic punk trio’s new album ‘Half Eaten By Dogs’ is hit by anything but a common neon light.
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Lost Girls – “With the Other Hand”
Wherever this one takes you, Lost Girls make it possible to defy dimension on the latest single from their sophomore LP, ‘Selvutsletter’.
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Subsonic Eye – “J-O-B”
The latest single from the Singapore noise-pop rockers’ new album, ‘All Around You’, is tired of the motions even if they sweeten the sounds of the grind.
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Recommended Album: Shamir – ‘Homo Anxietatum’
On his 9th album, the songwriting polymath arrives at a fully-realized point in his story full of the pop-adjacent and counter-counter nuanced charm that has come to define his sound ever since flipping off guaranteed industry plant status.
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MAGNITUDE – “Of Days Renewed”
The title track and anthem for anyone needing a lift from the pit courtesy of the Carolina straight edge hardcore band’s sophomore LP.