Tag: lifeguard
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The 50 Best Albums of 2025
An overwhelming transitional year in music gives way for those creating exciting new shapes in sound across the underground and mainstream alternative to be seen with the 50 Best Albums of 2025.
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Recommended Album: Sharp Pins – ‘Balloon Balloon Balloon’
The Lifeguard guitarist’s second album as Sharp Pins throws power-pop nostalgia for a loop where every moment and its idiosyncratic craft has you hanging on, as if it’s the first time you’ve ever heard music made this way.
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Lifeguard – “Ultra Violence”
An intent to blaze their own trail is to be assumed on the fiery first preview from the Chicago art-punk trio’s new maxi-single.
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Sharp Pins – “Queen Of Globes and Mirrors”
Proof that the rearview of indie rock and the underground before it still lives on with royal reverence in the diamond eyes of Kai Slater.
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Sharp Pins – “I Don’t Have The Heart”
Kai Slater’s lovelorn mess is its own kind of eloquence on the latest preview off Sharp Pins’ new album, ‘Balloon Balloon Balloon’.
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Sharp Pins – “( I Wanna) Be Your Girl”
The power-pop-meets-C86 brilliance of the Lifeguard guitarist beams with hope in the shadows of its longing desires on the lead single off his sophomore effort, ‘Balloon Balloon Balloon’.
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Recommended Album: Lifeguard – ‘Ripped and Torn’
The debut album from the young Chicago indie punk trio overdelivers in leaving little behind the surface of their unglossed, raw energy.
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Lifeguard – “Like You’ll Lose”
The youthfully-fueled Chicago art-punk trio discover how to make order out of chaos on this highlight off their debut album, ‘Ripped and Torn’.
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Lifeguard – “Under Your Reach”
The young Chicago underground rockers channel their distinct energy through timeless ’70s and ’80s post-punk nerves with only the sharpest angles on the latest single off their debut album, ‘Ripped and Torn’.
