Tag: dead oceans
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Recommended Album: Wednesday – ‘Bleeds’
In which Karly Hartzman carves out the faceted styles within her dirtbag hipster-goth Americana niche in greater detail with a meticulous bend of the knife.
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Wednesday – “Pick Up That Knife”
Karly Hartzman crashes out but at least finds a proper resting place for it in a great song on the latest ‘Bleeds’ single.
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Wednesday – “Wound Up Here (By Holdin On)”
Death re-emerges in such strangely delightful ways when you’re interpreting it through Karly Hartzman’s eyes on the latest highlight off the Asheville country-gazer’s new album, ‘Bleeds’.
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Recommended Album: Scowl – ‘Are We All Angels’
Scowl prove that the scene’s purest angels are never the ones who let the surrounding noise define them, but rather dare to let their wings burn by flying nearest to the sun of their own ambition.
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Scowl – “Tonight (I’m Afraid)”
The only thing anyone has to be afraid of when it comes to the Santa Cruz modern hardcore crew is just how easy they’re making their eclecticism sound…
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Scowl – “B.A.B.E.”
As the Santa Cruz alternative hardcore band suffers for the touring artist lifestyle, you can’t help but selfishly like it most when they’re brought to the brink.
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Scowl – “Not Hell, Not Heaven”
Parting the sea and filling it with red, Scowl swallow any voices standing in their way on the latest single from their new album, ‘Are We All Angels’.
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Japanese Breakfast – “Orlando in Love”
Impressioned by orchestration, poetic Renaissance era fables, and the studio hands of one Blake Mills, it’s impossible not to succumb the siren’s call of Michelle Zauner on the lead single off ‘Melancholy Brunettes (& sad woman)’.
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Recommended EP: Greg Mendez – ‘First Time / Alone’
A short but necessary reminder from the Philly songwriter that the simplicity of earnest melancholia laid bare in well-crafted melody is going to find its way to the right people.
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Greg Mendez – “Alone”
A hymnal of solitude with universal appeal, yet best heard in your own quiet company, just as it found Mendez.
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