“Slippery” is a striking debut from Brooklyn-based artist Discount Sunset, who manages to balance a captivating lushness with guitar-driven hooks that pop. “I don’t wanna make you fall down,” he sings during
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“Land Astronaut” is a consuming new track from ODDSn_nds, the project of Dan Rodriguez, who describes himself as ” a blues guitarist who doesn’t write blues music, misses ’90s rock, isn’t afraid
Halcyon Daze, the debut album from NYC-based production duo Nightcaller, is chock-full of atmosphere. Specifically, the project captures an ’80s themed vein of retrowave/synthwave, influenced by acts like Cocteau Twins, Prince, CHVRCHES,
Godot [Single] by Kyoto Lo-Fi When I first heard Kyoto Lo-Fi in 2016 (with their Black Rainbow EP), I was impressed by the group’s enjoyably ability to transition between hectic rhythms and
Los Angeles-based Spike Casino is a producer, poet, and singer who shows idiosyncratic charm on his new album’s four tracks. Opening track “Lobsters and Guns” is an interesting success. Murky vocals and
Lara Antebi’s new track “Here and Gone” is a fine piece of songwriting, a key-driven pop track from her third self-produced album Here and Gone, released on September 20. The Montreal-based songwriter
After impressing with the lush jangle of tracks “To Ur Self (LIE)” and “Si Te Vas“, Portland (OR) act BESOS is back with another entrancing success. “Sad Girl (Dreaming)” features lush, bilingual
Nostalgia Trap(s) by Video Shoppe Video Shoppe are a post-punk duo from Providence, Rhode Island, whose murky and hypnotic sound impresses on new EP Nostalgia Trap(s). “The Gate” remains murky, though relies
New Albums
St. Petersburg, Florida-based instrumental band Soft Cuff showcase their dynamic psych-groove sound on debut album Thick Heat, drawing from funk, soul, jazz,
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On the absorbing new EP Sailing Home, Galway native and Dublin-based songwriter Emma O’Reilly crafts folk-rooted songwriting through acoustic textures, natural imagery,
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Tom Garfield‘s Greed EP channels his lifelong community activism into four folk-rock songs confronting inequality, power, and the pressures facing everyday people.
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Excelling across jangly rock, power-pop, and folk pursuits, Catching Phrases is the memorable new album from Drawing Mazes. It thematically traces revelations
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