Tag: dead oceans
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Recommended Album: Greg Mendez – ‘Beauty Land’
With his sophomore effort, the melancholic Philly indie rock songwriter makes a complex set of emotions sound simply beautiful in the darkest hours of the night.
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Greg Mendez – “Gentle Love” / “Frog”
The latest from the sighful Philly songwriter’s sophomore effort, ‘Beauty Land’, offers two slight poses of vulnerability from opposite corners of the bedroom.
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Recommended Album: Avalon Emerson & The Charm – ‘Written into Changes’
With her second album with The Charm, Emerson continues fusing her DJ kicks with dreamy guitar-pop kisses to create electrically-rippling sapphic romance.
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listen to these: Avalon Emerson & The Charm, Charli XCX, Hilary Duff & Robyn
Recommended highlights from across the alternative pop spectrum with the latest albums by Avalon Emerson & The Charm, Charli XCX, Hilary Duff, and Robyn.
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Greg Mendez – “I Wanna Feel Pretty”
The way the Philly songwriter sets the scene of a cold reality against the warmth in his wordsmith bristle is a pleasantry, even if it’s the last place you’d want to be.
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Avalon Emerson & The Charm – “Country Mouse”
Channeling panic attacks and love in the fast lane, Avalon Emerson & The Charm have got a grip on the guitar-pop form in this highlight off her new album, ‘Written Into Changes’.
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Avalon Emerson & the Charm – “Jupiter and Mars”
The highlight from the NYC stylistic polymath and her band’s new album, ‘Written Into Changes’, sweeps up a spell of synesthesia with an electric pulse for the star-crossed.
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Mitski – “Where’s My Phone?”
Mitski sounds free even in the renewed fright of being unshackled from her screen on the lead single from ‘Nothing’s About to Happen to Me’.
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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.