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A track from the Daredevil Christopher Wright, which comes from a new 7″ split with Cuddle Magic. Despite the daring and self-absorbed name, this Wisconsin trio is actually not a man named Christopher Wright who fancies himself as a daredevil–ironically or not. The band is actually fronted by brothers
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Hailing from London, Elena Tonra makes music as a part of a project that goes by the name of Daughter. “Smother” is their new 7″ single, and along with B-side “Run,” it was released digitally on September 3 and physically on October 1 via 4AD and Glassnote. Aside from this
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Ormonde is the pairing of singer-songwriters Lotte Kestner and Robert Gomez. Both have their share of solo material, but I’ll admit this is the first time I’m hearing either of them–to my knowledge, anyway. The duo’s new album is titled Machine, which I’m a bit
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Radiohead’s Thom Yorke drops a new track from his Atoms For Peace project. Originally, it seemed to be an assembly of musicians used to play live renditions of material from 2009’s the Eraser. Now, with a full-length album on the way, Atoms For Peace is becoming so much
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Indie folk outfit Villagers has a new single out titled “the Waves,” which features an extremely surprising change of direction for the band whose previous efforts were mostly humbling, sad, singer-songwriter tunes with baroque instrumentation and a Bright Eyes-esque personality. This new track, though, features loads of electronics, louder instrumentation,
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Mount Eerie’s Phil Elverum drops another track from what’s going to be his second full-length album this year, Ocean Roar. It’s a slow, serene ballad featuring the kind of atmospheric synths that were so prevalent on this albums predecessor, Clear Moon. Some of Phil’s lyrics leave
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Stream: Jens Lekman- I Know What Love Isn’t On September 3, Swedish singer-songwriter Jens Lekman will be releasing his third LP, titled I Know What Love Isn’t, via Secretly Canadian. The folks over at The Quietus have made it available to stream now; just follow the link above
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Dark Shores by Strand of Oaks A charming little indie folk and rock hybrid coming off this new Dark Shores album. Stream it via the widget above, or grab a CD copy on Bandcamp.
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Simon Joyner, one of the darker singer-songwriters to come out of the 90s, has a new album on the way this August titled Ghosts. “Vertigo” is the first track to drop from it, and it’s quite good. Simon is really pushing the instrumentation on this one–especially with the
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BALCONY by Balcony Check out this self-titled album from Montreal’s Balcony. It’s some wonderfully strange and creative acoustic music. While vocals and guitar take the lead, strange grooves, sequenced beats, and weird background vocals makes these tracks much more than your average “confessional” songwriter strumming away into oblivion.
