new music
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Of all the singles to have come out in promotion of Grizzly Bear’s new album Painted Ruins, this latest one strikes me as being the most powerful in terms of composition and instrumentation. You can give it a listen above, along with its video, which offers quite a surreal
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Written at Night by Uncommon Nasa Staten Island MC Uncommon Nasa is dropping his first entirely self-produced album next month on Man Bites Dog Records. It’s called Written at Night, and the tracklist looks almost like a who’s who of current underground hip hop, featuring Open Mike Eagle,
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Deerhoof makes its mark on the Adult Swim Singles Program with “Your Dystopic Creation Doesn’t Fear You.” Probably one of the wordier titles in the series, and it features a gritty opening verse from “My Vag” rapper Awkwafina, who fits the band’s angular riffing remarkably well. The track
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For a track on his new EP The Mountain Has Fallen, DJ Shadow teamed up with Danny Brown and the results are fucking fireworks! The producer and rapper complement each other perfectly as they deliver a tour de force of grimy hip hop that’s well off the beaten path.
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Zombie Juice of Flatbush Zombies goes solo (sort of) here on this new single “Lava.” The instrumental isn’t the hardest banger Erick has ever produced, but Juice’s energetic flow and unique voice carries the track and keeps me on the edge of my seat. I don’t know
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who told you to think??!!?!?!?! by milo Everything that impressed me about milo‘s previous album, including Kenny Segal’s intricate production, is in full force on this latest single “magician (suture).” The stuttering vocal edits in particular might be the coolest production trick I’ve heard on one of
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Glitchy singer-songwriter Olga Bell has a new EP out called America, which takes its name from and includes three different mixes of the closing track from her 2016 album Tempo. But the highlight of the set is the non-album cut “Special Leave,” which features one of Olga’s most stunning
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Queens of the Stone Age’s previous album, …Like Clockwork, was one of the best rock albums the year it came out, and arguably the band’s most downbeat and sobering release to date. But things are slated to take a poppy turn with the Mark Ronson-produced Villains, coming out
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In 2015, Chelsea Wolfe released her heaviest record to date, Abyss, and judging from “16 Psyche” here, it seems things are only going to get heavier and darker on her next record, Hiss Spun. A doom metal album recorded by Chelsea Wolfe and Kurt Ballou? That’s a wet nightmare
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Chillwave spearhead Washed Out ventures in a digable nu-disco direction on new single “Hard to Say Goodbye.” It’s taken from his upcoming visual album Mister Mellow, out June 30 via Stones Throw.
