Foals: “Inhaler”

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Foals began when the math rock staple The Edmund Fitzgerald broke up. Jack Bevan, Lina Simon, and Yannis Philippakis felt as if making tech music was too serious and was not fun enough for them. For those unfam...

The Bilinda Butchers: “Teen Dream”

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Past experiences always seem brighter then what was actually happening in reality, and those affective floods of remembrance are often felt with caricatured intensity. Replicating these fantastic moments perhap...

Tamaryn: “I’m Gone”

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In an age when brands of shoe-gaze are customized like luxury SUVs, it is refreshing to hear one that sounds absolutely nothing like My Bloody Valentine. Containing less fuzz, the guitar work instead washes a ...

The Soft Moon: “Insides”

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Pulsated by Kraut-rock timing, revolving dark-wave synths welcome "Insides" before a wall of noise soars in and crashes. Above music that howls like wind, Luis Vasquez oozes out vocals that pull you into the vo...

Cat Power: “Cherokee”

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Chan Marshall has been making records since the mid-1990s, and in 2012 sounds more hi-fi, electronicly textured, and suitable for mainstream radio then ever before. Speaking of mainstream, her latest album Sun ...

The xx: “Chained”

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Another quality blank stare from The xx, seeming to come form a place of dead-pan transfixture. The pensive "Sunset" quietly cries out the pain felt when people separate and grow apart. Rich with soul, female v...

Splashh: “All I Wanna Do”

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Deep down we all just want to have fun, and when everyone is trying really hard to make respectable musical masterpieces it can become in-genuine. London garage-dreamers Splashh instead exult playful vulnerabil...

Petite Noir: “Till We Ghosts”

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South Africa is home for 21-year-old Yannick Iluga. A former member of the electronic group Popskarr, Iluga now records solo under the name Petite Noir. Noir refers to the heavy influence of post-punk and shoe-...

Timothy Carroll: “If I Were You”

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Art should not tell the audience to do anything but instead simply let them be; then again, can there be rules to something subjective? Either way, Timothy Carroll provides solid advice in "If I Were You." Timo...

Heavenly Beat: “Messiah”

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Texas native John Peña has been recording under the name Heavenly Beat since 2009. After playing bass in Beach Fossils for the past two years he has begun to perfect his solo craft. Released earlier this year, ...

Thee Oh Sees: “Lupine Dominus”

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Turn this track up when your friends have sunken too deep into the sofa. "Lupine Dominus" rips layered grooves of proto-punk fuzz that would be hard to fall asleep to. The bright vocals show great contrast agai...