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Recommended Album: Drop Nineteens – ‘1991″
The Boston band’s lost album is a critical document in the evolution of American shoegaze.
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SPELLLING – “Alibi”
An electric theater of post-breakup drama sparked by an angst impassioned by the energy behind it off the avant-pop songwriter’s new album, ‘Portrait of My Heart’.
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Horsegirl – “Frontrunner”
The quiet of anticipation is what keeps you up at night, in the best kind of way on the final preview from ‘Phonetics On and On’.
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Weatherday – “Angel”
Don’t look for a halo on this “Angel,” because you might get stung with the early highlight off the enigmatic Swedish noise-pop songwriter’s sophomore effort.
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Buzz Sound: Oklou
The future-pop of the French songwriter and producer captures the everyday in all of its significances, even if the blaring bass beats are submerged behind a head full of thoughts.
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Cloakroom – “Story of the Egg”
Lucidity and an anxiety-driven waking nightmare have Cloakroom in sync with sonic cohesion, or at least their own definition of it.
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Sharp Pins – “Storma Lee”
The latest ‘Radio DDR’ deluxe transmission strikes a nerve in putting you in touch with its kindred spirit from the power-pop afterlife.
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Recommended Album: FACS – ‘Wish Defense’
The reflection off a figure’s outlines are something augmented, yet more truly accurate in shape through the Chicago art rockers’ tightened electrical wire on LP6.

