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Recommended Album: Alan Sparhawk – ‘White Roses, My God’
An awe-striking revelation of something inside the Low frontman that confronts the heaviest of tragedy without relenting to evolve new paths forward.
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Steel Wool – “Eyes Closed”
Instead of burying anxieties behind the haze, the Los Angeles shoegaze band sit theirs right over its surface like warm butter on their debut single.
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Scowl – “Special”
Scowl continues to ascend above the pit, spectacularly so, with their first single for new label home, Dead Oceans.
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Punitive Damage – “Baptism of Fire”
To all those who think they’re being tactful playing both sides, Punitive Damage’s intent to destroy is a desire to be those goons’ trial by fire.
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shower curtain – “benadryl man”
A bedroomgaze delirium of you, your antihistamine-fueled thoughts, and an imaginary man sitting at the edge of your bed while your body turns on itself.
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Kassie Krut – “Reckless”
Former members of Palm re-introduce themselves as an electronic-pop freak fantasy that spells out the invitation for all to join.
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Recommended Album: Wild Pink – ‘Dulling the Horn’
A twist of fate in life’s journey is one that has the Brooklyn indie rockers’ sounding more alive in a lived-in reality for it.
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Waxahatchee – “Much Ado About Nothing”
In which Waxahatchee accepts her wandering thinking patterns and finds comfort in the unfiltered self-made chaos.
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Recommended Album: MJ Lenderman – ‘Manning Fireworks’
Country-smoked indie rock for anyone on a losing streak, in good company with the Asheville rocker’s slouched wordsmith ways.
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Greg Mendez – “First Time”
Turn out the light and wilt away with the first preview off the Philly songwriter’s new EP, ‘First Time / Alone’.