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Recommended Album: Adrianne Lenker – ‘Bright Future’
The latest solo offering from the Big Thief frontwoman furthers her supernatural ability to hold the fraught nature of love, purpose, and the human experience with grace inside a song.
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On burnout and reclaiming joy in music and writing.
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Ladifa – “coping mechanisms”
A plush electric blanket of saccharine guitar-pop from the Seattle-based alternative-pop songwriter that offers up a cozy place to get lost in your thoughts with.
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Beyoncé – “16 CARRIAGES”
The early highlight from ‘COWBOY CARTER’ finesses country’s rugged roots through her supernova energy.
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Russian Baths – “Split”
The lead single from the Brooklyn art rock band’s sophomore effort, ‘Mirror’, follows your secrets like a shadow through walls and invisible signals in the air.
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One Step Closer – “Giant’s Despair”
The Wilkes-Barre melodic hardcore take it to the next level on their way out with the latest single from ‘All You Embrace’.
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Excide – “Dis(re)member”
The Carolina post-hardcore rockers pick up the scene’s major label-era limbs and run hard with them into its future on their latest single.
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Recommended Album: So Pitted – ‘Cloned’
On their long-awaited sophomore effort, the Seattle band up the mutant factor on their post-nuclear noise rock as a means to evolve and survive this world.
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Jlin – “Summon”
Whatever Jlin is inviting into this world with her art, it’s unlike anything other we’ve encountered on the final preview off the experimental artist’s new album, ‘Akoma’.
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Kelly Moran – “Sodalis (II)”
In companionship with the Yamaha Disklavier, the NYC composer actualizes her artist intuition on the latest preview from ‘Moves in the Field’.