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Berlin-based Artist Roman946 Wraps Layers of Krautrock and Post-Punk Experimentation in “Mooncake Songs”

The world so small Like a shadow play My hesitating steps are vectorized My face high-res scanned roman946 is the long-running alias of Roman Wilhelm (羅小弟), a Berlin-based graphic designer,…

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“In Plain Sight” — Calgary New Wave Duo WANTS Deliver a Mid-’80s Film Soundtrack From a Parallel Timeline

Your burning heart — you give it soul I want to run to the top of a straight line For a chance at a good life Some albums feel like…

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Los Angeles Dark Synthpop Trio BlakLight Carve Love, Ruin, and Memory Into Sharp Relief on “The Haunting of Us”

A pulse divides the liquid sky And leaves no sign of how or why Light unravels the seam Between silence and dream The Haunting of Us, the new album from…

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Experimental Post-Punk Outfit CO-ED DORMS Spin Murder, Money, and Modern Malaise Into Gothic Americana Poetry with Self-titled LP

CO-ED DORMS arrives like a small civic disturbance: four people dragging neo-classical intent through post-industrial grit, hammering post-punk revival energy into a performance-art crucible. Their arsenal is improbable but exacting:…

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Sydney’s Second Idol Traces the Fault Lines of Heritage and Hurt on Their Debut LP “Mongrel” (Track by Track Review)

There is an electricity to Second Idol’s Mongrel that flickers like a body remembering its earliest bruises — not to shrink from them, but to rise taller in spite of…

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Düsseldorf’s SixTurnsNine Drifts, Crackles, and Soars in Dusky Trip-Hop LP “Soul Glitches”

Sun is exploding, into my head the other seems faraway, out of my threat black turns into white, white turns into black the strangest feeling, that I ever had There…

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NYC Post-Punk Polymath Charlie Nieland Storms Back with “Stories From The Borderlines” LP

New York post-punk stalwart Charlie Nieland storms back into view with Stories From The Borderlines, an album that feels like someone wired a confessional booth to a particle accelerator and…

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Melbourne Post-Punk Outfit screensaver Examines Power, Pressure, and Perspective With “Three Lens Approach”

Melbourne’s screensaver never dealt in half-measures, but Three Lens Approach plays like they finally decided to quit apologizing for restraint and just let the electricity spill everywhere. The band (Krystal…

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Boston Trio Violet Nox are Lost in a Labyrinth of Surreal Synths and Ethereal Vocals in “Silvae”

Violet Nox makes music like they’re patching radio transmissions from a planet that shouldn’t exist. Their fascinating new record, Silvae, hums with frequencies that feel like they’ve been left out in…

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Dark Dreampop Duo Magic Wands Release New Album “Cascades” via Metropolis Records

Something fated shines through in the way Magic Wands move, as if they’ve been orbiting this precise sound since the first time they struck a chord. Chris and Dexy Valentine…

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