“Hold Me Close in The Quiet Flame” — Cork Post-Punk Duo Crá Croí Shares Visions From Irish Mythology and a Bleak Future in “Tá brón orm”
Hold me close in the quiet flame Through shadowed paths I hear your name An ancient grove and a city emptied by catastrophe can provoke much the same unease: the…
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Nightcrawler and Carmilla Sioux Expose the Machinery of Deception in “System Lies”
“Everything is under control” becomes a particularly unconvincing reassurance when the officials delivering it are wearing gas masks. Screens repeat the message, documents disappear into a shredder, and a reactor…
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“I Hear The Dead Calling My Name” — Sacramento Deathrock Outfit In Retrograde Descend into Darkness With “Cold Read”
I’m losing my mind I can feel my soul being lost, trapped, stranded in time Deep voices travel strangely through old houses. They pass beneath doors, collect in stairwells, and…
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“Killing Karma” — Milwaukee Post-Punk Outfit Seances Share Video for Assemblage 23’s Remix of Debut Single “Fade”
I can’t tell what’s in your heart tonight Bathing in the moonlight I am tethered to this shoreline It will never be the same A label compilation, a Discman, and…
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Montreal Dreampop Artist Love Altar Examines the Wounds We Bring to Love in Video for “Without Harm”
With my reflection by the pool I learned to be a little cruel With words I painted the world I live within Old pain has an appalling sense of timing.…
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Los Angeles Post-Punk Duo DECEITS Return for a Second Bite with “Mi Amor, Mi Vampira Pt. II”
I couldn’t breathe, I had to die And now in death, I feel alive Horror sequels and vampire romances share a lovely contempt for endings. The monster rises again; the…
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Seattle’s Black Ferns Surveys The Wreckage of a Doomed Relationship on “Failed Plans”
Love has a remarkable talent for turning perfectly functional adults into shipwrecks. One minute you’re making plans for a shared future, and the next you’re staring across the dinner table…
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“Just a Bad Dream” — Portland’s Masonique Confront a World of Surveillance and Political Absurdity in Video for “Too Many Villains”
You are just a shadow A memory Just a bad dream Nothing to see Humanity has made a spectacular mess of its brief tenancy on Earth, and judging by the…
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Seattle’s Ghosts In The Graveyard Summon a Séance Gone Wrong in Video for “Old Dark House”
Dust on the banister, an unoccupied chair facing the door, footsteps from a room that should be empty: the old haunted house makes an accusation out of every ordinary object.…
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Violet Oscillation Questions Faith and False Promises in Video for Dreamy Shoegaze Single “heaveness”
Count all your blessings Write out a curse for all you have taken I’ll make your life worse Faith is a peculiar bargain when the people asking for it have…
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