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Baltimore rockers Roomrunner have a track track out, teasing toward the group’s full-length debut in May, and it’s a helluva song. With an earworm riff and some youthful male vocals, it’s an absolute barnburner. I’m loving it, and I hope you do, too!
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On this debut Atoms For Peace LP, Radiohead frontman Thom Yorke uses this new band of his to continue honing the electronic style he’s been toying with since 2006’s The Eraser. Stylistically, it’s almost a sequel to Radiohead’s The King of Limbs, and this just happens
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Iceage’s sophomore full-length brings the same downtrodden, depressive ferocity that the band’s last album did, but with a bit more length and diversity. While it’s not exactly progressive, it’s still a blast–just like the debut LP. WATCH THE REVIEW
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I won’t say Push The Sky Away is Nick Cave’s darkest album yet, but it’s easily one of his most depressing–so much so that Cave himself seems too shaken to engage his listeners with the same emotional potency he usually does. WATCH THE REVIEW
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Australian death metal outfit Portal has a sound that impenetrably thick and noisy, and they use it to bombard listeners with an ever-changing series of riffs and dismal melodies. However, when it comes to the composition of these riffs and melodies, the album is pretty run-of-the-mill by death metal standards
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Stream: Prurient – Through The Window Prurient is the noisy, experimental, and mind-bending musical project of Dominick Fernow. The guy is as difficult as he is prolific, which adds another layer of difficulty when it comes to wrapping your head around exactly what makes his approach to discord so captivating. The
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Hit play on the widget above to stream the debut LP from Atoms For Peace, a.k.a. the band Thom Yorke is in right now that isn’t Radiohead. The album’s title is Amok, and should be getting an official release next week. Enjoy!
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Stream: Bilal – A Love Surreal Combining elements of soul, R&B, funk, and electronic music, the new Bilal album is a futuristic fusion of sounds that reminds me of Prince, Erykah Badu, and some of Bobby Womack’s recent work. Stream the LP in full via NPR Music link
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On Pissed Jeans’ latest effort the band still sounds, uh, pissed. WATCH THE REVIEW
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Stream the new Beach Fossils album in full via the Hype Machine widget above. Though I haven’t really been a huge fan of most groups shooting for this guitar-driven dream pop sound, I’m finding this new record to be way more detailed, approachable, and memorable. Of course, it
