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Matthew Dear pulls together yet another moody dance tune with the first single to drop from his forthcoming album, Beams. “Her Fantasy” brings a sweet beat, bubbling arpeggios, and Matthew’s unsettling dead pan vocal. Look for this new album on August 27th via Ghostly International.
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Stream: Savage- “Husbands” As anybody will tell you, there’s nothing I love more than the strange, moody, and dark female-fronted post-punk, and the band Savages definitely delivers that. They’ve got a new record on the way via Pop Noire Records, and this is the first track I’m
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No Joy is an alternative rock and shoegaze outfit hailing from Montreal. “Junior” has a steady groove that continuously builds in intensity throughout without losing any momentum. The song is sung very softly and is very dreamlike in nature, this in combination with the rock styled jam the two play
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[audio:http://www.matadorrecords.com/mpeg/perfume_genius/perfume_genius_rusty_chains.mp3] MP3 Hot on the heels of its second album, the loved Put Your Back N 2 It, Mike Hadreas’s Perfume Genius project has released another song. The track, which is titled “Rusty Chains,” was previously made
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Odd Renditions by Oddisee I first caught D.C. rapper-producer Oddisee when Mello Music Group sent me his mostly instrumental album Rock Creek Park. While I thought the textures and samples in his instrumentals were pretty, it was a bit in-one-ear-and-out-the-other for me, sadly. However, the four tracks on this
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Texas garage rock eccentrics Fergus & Geronimo have a new track out, and it doesn’t disappoint. Not at all. Nope. Well, maybe it’s a bit short, but the duo makes up for it with an extremely catchy hook and personality. The track opens up with a miss “Heather
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In describing his band’s forthcoming album Heaven, Walkmen frontman Hamilton Leithauser has promised a record documenting the band’s maturation and a “bigger, more generous statement.” With “We Can’t Be Beat” the band seems to be delivering just that. The song begins with a mesmerizing and soothing fingerpicked
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It was only June of last year that Marissa Nadler released her self-titled fifth album, but the prolific singer-songwriter is already planning to put out another LP this year. Titled The Sister, the album is slated to drop on May 29, slightly less than a year after the release of
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Stream: Craft Spells- Gallery EP Craft Spells brings another helping of reverb-washed, hypnotic indie pop tunes on the new Gallery EP. It’s streaming in full on SoundCloud at the moment. Follow the link above to take a listen. Last year, the band’s new album, Idle Labor, got a
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Some cerebral and subtle techno coming from Russian producer Unbalance on this new song, which is the title track to his latest EP on Mutex Recordings. It’s a bit formulaic, but “Fluid” still features some really nice builds and breaks. The stuttering synths are nice touch, too; adding a
