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Recommended Album: Spiral XP – ‘I Wish I Was a Rat’
Existential overcast and partly sunny skies coexists within the same woozy atmosphere and the loud pop of the Seattle rockers’ debut album.
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Horsegirl – “2468”
The math checks out no matter which way you add, subtract, divide or multiply it on the lead single from the New York-by-way-of-Chicago indie rockers’ sophomore LP, ‘Phonetics On and On’.
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Recommended Album: High Vis – ‘Guided Tour’
On their third album, the London melodic hardcore and post-punk band gleams through the greyscale and sounds more ready than ever to face strife head-on.
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Knifeplay – “Spirit Echo”
You may not be able physically see the physical outlines of the Philly experimental alternative rockers, but you feel their presence all around you.
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Superheaven – “Long Gone”
The second coming of the seminal grungy post-hardcore band isn’t promising salvation, but it’s good to have them back to burn with the rest of the world.
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Poppy Jean Crawford – “Glamorous”
All Hell hath no fury howl and squalor from the Los Angeles grunge goth-pop songwriter in her contribution to the Angel Olsen-curated compilation, ‘Cosmic Waves Volume 1’.
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Recommended Album: The Cure – ‘Songs of a Lost World’
Following a period of creative dormancy, the goth rock pioneers return to swallow the world whole all over again with their 16th studio album.
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Haywire feat. Fizzy – “Clocktower Place”
The highlight from the Boston hardcore band’s new EP ‘For Better Or For Worse’ will make you do a double take.
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Recommended Album: ELUCID – ‘REVELATOR’
The burly, muscular fist behind Armand Hammer lets himself off the leash to combat this world is dog with all fire and fury.
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Expose – “Speed Dial”
The Los Angeles experimental jazz-core quintet’s sound comes in fast and impossible to trace on the lead single off their debut album, ‘ETC’.