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Some Brazilian baroque pop from Baleia on the song “Breu,” which features some pretty beautiful melodies, rushes of strings, and piano segues. I like how lavish the instrumentation is, and how the really distorted, lo-fi guitar contrasts that with some overt roughness. It’s a nice touch. The instrumentation always
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Empty by Orphan Donor Recording for Allentown grindcore quartet Orphan Donor’s new EP Empty apparently took place over the course of three years – starting in January 2011, in a barn, and ending in November 2013, in a basement. Clocking in at a seemingly meager 15 minutes, Empty might just
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DT005: BUN / DELOFI by BUN / DELOFI Brooklyn label Dirty Tapes certainly lives up to its name with its latest split release between Japanese electronic music producer Bun (Fumitake Tamura) and Cleveland experimental beatmaker Delofi. The instrumentals across the Colors and Winter tapes are serene, chilled, and are lent an additional
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Stream: Swearin’ – Surfing Strange NPR is streaming the sophomore LP from Brooklyn garage rock outfit Swearin’. Surfing Strange marks both the refinement and the amplification of the incredibly raw and muddy, but often earwormy esthetic the quartet was working with on its self-titled debut. Perhaps the greatest change from album
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With “Take Me,” Sufjan Stevens intimates that even his unused demos are wholly worthwhile. Stevens shared the “repetitive lo-fi pop” song to his Tumblr Ghetto Soundcloud page upon happening across it on a hard drive under his desk. He went on to describe it with a couple of sly quadruple
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Omaha punk rock outfit Yuppies have a new self-titled album out now. Above, you can sample three of the LP’s tracks, “A Ride,” “What’s That?” and “Hitchin a Ride,” all of which suggest an album that is sublimely raw, rollicking, and reckless. Enjoy! Yuppies is available now via
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Check out a reworked version of “Lone Bell” by experimental folk musician Phil Elverum, a.k.a Mount Eerie. This copiously auto-tuned redux will be featured on Elverum’s upcoming project, Pre-Human Ideas, a collection of 12 songs taken from his two 2012 efforts, Clear Moon and Ocean Roar; all
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Singer-songwriter Jonathan Rado releases a solo debut quickly after his main musical project, Foxygen, takes off with a successful album release earlier this year.
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Inga Copeland, apparently no longer affiliated with long-time musical partner Dean Blunt, has shared a new, self-produced track to her freshly-made YouTube channel. “Fit” features an almost inaudible, decidedly buried vocal track from Copeland, but there is some neat contrast achieved between the peppy clap/kick sequence and murky synth
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California rock duo No Age comes through with their most abstract release yet with An Object. WATCH THE REVIEW
