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Screature Screature
Screature mix goth theatrics with 60s garage simplicity and brooding post-punk. »
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Dead Gaze Dead Gaze
Proving lo-fi to be a petty label, Dead Gaze gives teen feelings with no irony. »
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Bryant Dope New New York
Bryant Dope falls short of reinvention and satisfying nostalgic ode to the Mecca. »
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Dirty Beaches Drifters/Love Is The Devil
If Badlands outran its demons, this time Dirty Beaches is burning among them. »
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Savages Silence Yourself
Do not question Savages. They have manifestos. Be manipulated for your own good. »
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They Might Be Giants Nanobots
30 years and durable, TMBG is like that vintage day-glo Volkswagen van still cruising. »
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Anika Anika
More dark and trashy than a 9:00 am walk of shame, Anika has released new self-titled EP. »
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White Fence Cyclops Reap
At this point would an upheaval of format by Tim Presley be good for White Fence? »
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Ammbush Ammbaataa
Ammbush's solo rap debut lives up to the adage you can't self diagnose weirdness. »
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No Joy Wait To Pleasure
No Joy's second full-length takes a long time to settle in. »
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White Mystery TELEPATHIC
White Mystery answer the question "What if Andrew W.K. had two red-headed step siblings?" »
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Malaikat Dan Singa Open The Crown
Among his Malaikat Dan Singa brethren, Arrington De Dionyso is an untamed punk tiger. »
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broaddaylight anniversaries:reunions
Recaptured, reproduced vintage daydream tracks with the classic CD treble glow. »
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Merchandise Totale Nite
Among the homogenized, the misguidedly aped eras, Merchandise carry no baggage. »
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PC Worship Beat Punk
Who better to aspire to more than sound art or the next no wave gen than PC Worship? »
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Thee Oh Sees Floating Coffin
Thee Oh Sees are our radioactive mutant avengers of all things scuzzy and psychotic. »
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James Ferraro Cold
James Ferraro's off-kilter R&B experiment won't earn him attention among the new elite. »
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Kurt Vile Wakin' On A Pretty Daze
As Kurt Vile ages we learn how to be confident, maintain self-doubt and tuck it in a joke. »
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Kinski Cosy Moments
It's not suprising Kinski's best offering is disconnected from contemporary taste. »
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Milk Music Cruise Your Illusion
Sometimes a record comes out of certain place and it just makes sense, i.e. Milk Music. »
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Gun Outfit Hard Coming Down
Pull up a bedside chair to hear Gun Outfit's introspective take on a bleak Americana. »
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Heavy Hawaii Goosebumps
Heavy Hawaii craft a bad trip in a funhouse with no escape, just drippy corridors. »
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Brandt Brauer Frick Miami
Brandt Brauer Frick are three albums deep in minimalist techno but far from South Beach. »
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Purling Hiss Water on Mars
With space travel privatized, Purling Hiss rebel for a 9-track excursion to Mars and back. »
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Warm Soda Someone For You
From the ashes of Bare Wires, Warm Soda debut precious pieces of power pop. »
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Alex Calder Time EP
Alex Calder could represent a raw boredom or the collision of humor and voyeurism on EP. »
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Lapland Lapland
Lapland craft lush psych-pop with hints of Prefab Sprout and plenty of integrity. »
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Exhaustion Future Eaters
Exhaustion is Australia's answer to the sludgy, predatory roar of Brooklyn's PC Worship. »
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Iceage You're Nothing
Iceage's sophomore record alters the course of an El Camino ride to the East River. »
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Föllakzoid II
The next best thing to hearing Santiago's secret weapon live. »
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Blanche Blanche Blanche Wooden Ball
Blanche Blanche Blanche craft an alternate universe of no wave sans the bother of punk. »
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Helado Negro Invisible Life
In one song Helado Negro killed Neon Indian's dreams and spent the rest experimenting. »
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Misfit Mod Islands & Islands
Sarah Kelleher's ice queen zero to hero holidays in the sun. »
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Umberto Confrontations
Umberto crafts a record for VHS diggers seeking cult sci-fi oddities. »
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Eat Skull III
On the verge of being forgotten Eat Skull give us little reason to stick around. »
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The Holydrug Couple Noctuary
Come on, come down, turn on and turn up in this summer of love; Santiago edition. »
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Beach Fossils Clash The Truth
Beach Fossils haphazardly trip through the studio experience with a touch of grace. »
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Destruction Unit Void
Destruction Unit embrace the arid desert habitat on their fifth and most realized album. »
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Maxmillion Dunbar House of Woo
The loop reigns supreme with Maxmillion Dunbar, but it comes from the path less traveled. »
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Regal Misery, Redemption & Love
French occult rockers find freedom within the frame. Pure French gaunt. »
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Parquet Courts Light Up Gold
Fergus & Geronimo part for a record that answers big questions with a bigger nothing. »
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Young Fathers Tape One
Edinburgh's new patriarchs' first tape gets proper release, we await Tape Two. »
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Hilly Eye Reasons To Live
Former Titus Andronicus guitarist Amy Klein debuts in a duo under the moniker, Hilly Eye. »
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Pere Ubu Lady From Shanghai
Pere Ubu celebrates its 35th anniversary of pioneering experimental rock. »
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UV Race Racism
UV Race deliver delinquent proto-punk with a sneakily complex underbelly. »
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Billow Observatory Billow Observatory
Billow Observatory offer one for the headphones and the new schools of chamber ambient. »
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RATKING Wiki93
RATKING's EP challenges the status quo of New York rap and its own decorated lineage. »
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Tara King th. Uncolored Past (Pt.I & II)
Tara King th. spring a relic from a 60's French psyche ward into Stateside amnesty. »
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Naomi Punk The Feeling
Olympia's Naomi Punk is alternative on purpose, with purpose. »
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Sex Church Somnambulist EP
Sex Church's three-song EP is death rock that cultivates a narrative to your despair. »
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Jessica Pratt Jessica Pratt
Tim Presley practically started his label to release Jessica Pratt's vulnerable debut. »
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Prince Rama Top Ten Hits of the End of the World
Prince Rama give Brooklyn a Now: That's What I Call Music compilation for the apocalypse. »
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Matmos The Ganzfeld EP
Matmos celebrate 20 years with an EP that continues to embrace difficult musical concepts. »
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Slim Twig A Hound at the Hem
Thoughts on the Marquis de Slim's alt-baroque masterpiece. »
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Evening Meetings Evening Meetings LP
Seattle's Evening Meetings are a supergroup without all the bravado and disappointment. »
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Rafiq Bhatia Yes It Will
Rafiq Bhatia answers Sam Cooke's civil rights anthem with a commanding "yes" in fusion. »
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Window Twins Wish
Fresh & Only and Exray's frontmen team up for an album of dubby psychedelia. »
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Mac DeMarco 2
No longer a drunk Elvis crooner, DeMarco lets the smokey vocals be true. »
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Chris Cohen Overgrown Path
Stepping out of the shadows, Chris Cohen delivers a magical mystery tour of a debut. »
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Mount Eerie Ocean Roar
Phil Elverum disturbs the calm of Clear Moon with an end of the year tempest. »