power pop
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Apart from the great lead single “Only Acting,” this new Kero Kero Bonito EP is pretty scant.
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Kero Kero Bonito is back with a new single called “Only Acting,” which is being heralded as their first song to prominently feature rock instrumentation. The hook is power pop bliss, but there’s a bit of a dark undercurrent to the whole thing, which I at first suspected came
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The New York songwriter’s latest work feels like a pale presentation of the anthemic punk style of his previous record, Worry.
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Weezer indulge in millennial pop cliches on their most sugar-sweet album yet, Pacific Daydream.
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After Laughter, Paramore’s first album in four years, finds the pop punk band going through a synthpop metamorphosis.
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Crying delivers one of the most triumphant, diverse, and instrumentally intricate rock records I’ve heard this year.
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Jeff Rosenstock drops a pretty ambitious and conceptual follow-up to last year’s We Cool?.
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The lead single from Can’t Die, the debut solo album by indie pop immortal Chris Farren, out September 2 via SideOneDummy.
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Festival Song by Jeff Rosenstock Jeff Rosenstock comes through with probably the most biting and clever pop punk song I’ve heard so far in 2016.
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From Tight New Dimension, a new album by party-punk trio Mean Jeans, out today via Fat Wreck Chords.