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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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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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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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“Where the Shadows Bend” — Cathedral Bells Cross into Another World With Haunting Dreampop Single “Put Me To Sleep”

when I wake up again will it still be the same reality or just another dream There are mornings when the dream takes longer to leave than the person drifting…

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Melbourne’s Ohms Serves up a Grotesque Feast of Mutant Post-Punk in Video for “Aeroplane Jelly”

Beg your Mum and Dad, beg them for a treat. Scrounge around like vultures, picking remnants left from meat. Boil and grind ‘em to a pulp, Draining blood for me…

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“We Are One!” — You Won’t Fear Them takes to the streets in video for Feminist Synthpunk Single “Una Sola”

Ci apriamo il passo tra la violenza Siamo una sola A kick drum thumps with the regularity of a heartbeat, surrounded by cold synthesizers and a creeping sense of dread.…

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The Mission Turn the Other Cheek With “Kindness Is A Weapon” — New album “Songs For Kith And Kin” Announced!

When someone tries to smite you Turn the other cheek and walk away And if they’re spreading lies to spite you Don’t listen to a word they have to say……

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Doncaster Duo Peak Flow Haunt the Headstones in Video for Euphoric Goth Rock Anthem “Never Coming Down”

Cross my heart and pray to God Are you the one I’m dreamin of? A racing heart is a notoriously unreliable compass for happiness. It may signal desire, panic—or the…

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Leipzig Darkwave Project Kalte Steine Answers the Witches’ Call on “Hexentanz”

Zum Hexentanz Das Feuer brennt so heiß Und wir verlieren uns im Kreis Walpurgis Night gives the arrival of May a deliciously disreputable reception. Across Germany’s Harz Mountains, the night…

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