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Crystal Castles drops a new jam, teasing toward what should be the band’s third full-length album–which may be titled III. Again, like the track “Plague” that was dropped earlier this year, vocalist Alice Glass’ vocals are obscured by a low mix and loads of effects. A driving house
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Cold Cave pulls together a dark, moody, synth-driven post-punk ambiance on this new track, “A Little Death To Laugh.” You can read a bit ab out the band’s new lineup here, and expect a new album on the way next year.
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LA music producer Nosaj Thing drops a new track featuring Blonde Redhead’s Kazu Makino on vocals. The forthcoming LP, titled Home, will be out in 2013. Pre-order here. /via/
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The strange, enigmatic, and ever-obscure rock outfit Usaisamonster now has a new b-side and rarities compilation droping via Northern Spy Records on October 9th. “Bulgarian” is one of the many tracks from it, and is actually modeled after a Bulgarian folk tune. More info here.
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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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Streaming below are two new, unreleased dance tracks from Spanish DJ John Talabot. If you remember, the dude had a stellar February release titled fin. As the discrepancy in cover art suggests, the outtake sessions will be released on their very own 7” that will be sold exclusively through his
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Tim Hecker and Daniel Lopatin (a.k.a. Oneohtrix Point Never) have come together in what may be the most promising electronic collaboration of the latter year. Their forthcoming LP titled Instrumental Tourist is to be expected on November 20th as a part of Software record’s SSTUDIO series. An
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Thee Oh Sees, Ty Segall, The Fresh & Onlys. These names stand out as leaders of the garage rock resurgence of the past couple years and while garage rock certainly never died out, these acts are often cited for bringing the raucous and ferocious sounds of the garage back into
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Hailing from Melbourne, Australia, Twerps are a jangle pop band that can transform bummer songs into upbeat numbers to live by. “Work It Out,” the b-side to their forthcoming single, is far from your typical breakup song. Where as most breakup songs are one-sided, either expressing the sorrow of the
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In 1996, of Montreal released Cherry Peel, a delicate, sensitive, and heavily Beatles-indebted debut album that rivaled even the Fab Four in terms of simplistic pop songwriting. Ten albums later, Kevin Barnes and company have released a plenitude of fantastical concept albums, gotten married to glossy synths and dance beats,
