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Phantom Balance is an up-and-coming and surprisingly aggressive hip hop duo who’s gone under a pretty noticeable aesthetics change over the past year or so. They’ve got a new mixtape on the way titled loser, which is dropping on the first of March. Keep track; it could be
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Shlohmo drops yet another track from his forthcoming Laid Out EP, which is dropping in March. This particular cut features vocal contributions from alternative R&B pioneer How To Dress Well. It’s a really spacey, detailed track. Not only is there some trap influence coming from the hi-hats,
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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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On her latest installment of tracks–which were formulated at the time of 2008’s Dragging a Dead Dear Up a Hill–multi-instrumentalist Liz Harris brings another collection of ambient-style folk tracks that are opaque, shadowy, and extremely emotive. WATCH THE REVIEW
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Lightning Bolt’s more percussive half, Brian Chippendale, has a new album on the way via his solo pseudonym, Black Pus. “1000 Years” is the first track to drop from this forthcoming album, which is titled All My Relations and looking at a March release date on Thrill Jockey. It’
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Everything Everything delivers a session performance of the song “Duet” for The Line of Best Fit. Watch, enjoy. I was catching a serious Coldplay vibe on this track, but the band’s eccentric approach to vocals and melody definitely keep them in a spot of their own.
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Following 2011’s Smoke Ring for My Halo, Philadelphia singer-songwriter Kurt Vile will release Wakin on a Pretty Daze, his fifth full-length LP. Set to be put out via Matador Records, the record is looking at an April 9 release date. Above, stream the album’s opening track, “Wakin on
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Judging from tracks like “Gold Soul Theory,” New York’s the Underachievers certainly have style and vision; however, they don’t display it on every single track on this new mixtape–which really does feel like a smattering of different sounds and messages. It’s the spacier and more spiritual
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Despite the fact that his latest full-length album, There is Love in You, was released in 2010, Four Tet has hardly had an uninteresting past couple of years. Last year brought us Pink, a stellar compilation of 12″ singles that he had released separately prior, and just a few weeks
