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“Sympathy Is Never Free” — Pennsylvania Post-Punk Artist ZEU Unveils “Existor”

ZEU’s Existor is an album that begins with the sort of grand private wager rock records used to make before everybody became a brand manager with a ring light: one…

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“Tell Me If You Ever Cried…” — Budapest’s Choke City Share “Burden. Caress. Nothing More” EP

I wanna run, I wanna hide When I tried to fix you, it made me die No joy, only pain Never asked for much, just what it takes A burden,…

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The Memory Of Snow Compiles an Alt-Noir Dossier on Violence, Grief, and Revenge With “Inside”

Some albums invite the listener into a vast landscape; Inside invites them into a house where every room seems to know something. The fourth album from The Memory Of Snow,…

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Memento Mori — Denver Darkwavers Devoratus Dance Into the Void With “Vacio” EP

Take my hand, Let me show you how the night runs out Denver’s Devoratus make darkwave with a clenched jaw and a dancer’s thrust, and Vacio, their EP whose title…

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“The Horizon is Visible” — Kyiv’s Blokkontroll Unleashes the Industrial EBM Machinery of Debut LP “Odin Na Odin”

We’ll break the world Then build it new Remind them all With words we knew Blokkontroll’s debut, Odin Na Odin, comes from Kyiv with the blunt geometry of a bunker…

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Glass Eden Drifts Off Into a Universe of Dreampop and Minimal Synth on “Born From A Wish”

Building a musical universe alone can become an act of self-recovery. On Glass Eden’s debut album, Born From A Wish, Sarah Egger turns uncertainty into rhythm, longing into melody, and…

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“The Night Is Mine” — Greek Dark Synth Duo INCIRRINA Finds Shelter From Dystopian Conformity with “Trace”

You wait until tonight Diversion of the trace Get ready for the vamp The stage, the other face Some things are monuments: raised in stone, fixed in place, built to…

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“Be Kind to Each Other” — An Interview With Bristol Alt-Electronic Duo MESH on “The Truth Doesn’t Matter”

Too many people to mend And we’re not close to the end We never make that time until it’s too late There are lies that arrive like sirens, obvious and…

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“Rain Falls From Your Eyes” — Seattle’s Ghost Fetish Shapes a Dreamy Soundtrack for Melancholy on “Sculpture”

Rain falls from your eyes and shapes me like a sculpture Some bands chase the moment; Ghost Fetish sounds like they are scoring something far more enduring: a timeless soundtrack…

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They Might Be Giants Celebrate 40 Years at Brooklyn Steel Residency

Every jumbled pile of person has a thinking part that wondersWhat the part that isn’t thinking isn’t thinking ofShould you worry when the skull head is in front of you?Or…

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