Tag: dead oceans
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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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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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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’.
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Bright Eyes feat. Alex Orange Drink – “Rainbow Overpass”
Conor Oberst and company are not slowing down, they’re speeding up on the road to their new album, ‘Five Dices, All Threes’.
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Recommended Album: Mitski – ‘The Land Is Inhospitable and So Are We’
The spotlight shines brighter than ever on Mitski’s presence who remains a gravitational pull of emotion through song unmatched even at her most unassuming.
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Recommended Album: Slowdive – ‘everything is alive’
More in touch with the physical form without departing the cosmos fully, the seminal shoegaze band’s second post-reunion album evolves what its sound can be.
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