“A Legacy of Decay” — Melbourne’s Lothario Shares Video for Anthem of Solidarity and Resolve, “IOU”
Through these streets of piss and pain, through the heavens of palm and shame With a legacy of decay, and when all else fails, we make that mirror promise Melbourne’s Lothario sounds as…
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Missed Connections and Crossed Wires — NYC Retrowave Duo Bunny X Share Video for “Even If We Don’t Talk”
Even after all this time I still put you above the rest Yours is the silence That’s deadliest Some loves end cleanly; others keep a key to the room long after the door has slammed. Silence…
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Chilean Techno-Industrial Producer Santiago Nicolás Performs an Autopsy on Trauma in “Atrición” EP
Atrición is the sort of record that seems to have been built under fluorescent light, with the smell of disinfectant somewhere nearby and history banging its head against the walls. Santiago…
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Baltimore Electro-Industrial Duo Pygmy Children Blur the Lines Between Reality and Fantasy in Video for “Proof in Lies”
There comes a point, after enough headlines, alerts, feeds, clips, corrections, denials, cropped videos, expert panels, anonymous sources, and professional faces staring gravely into cameras,…
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“You’re Never Alone” — The Dead Speak in DC Darkwave Duo 2DCAT’s Video for “We’re Here”
Death has always had a public-relations problem. We prefer it announced by thunder, church bells, skeletal hands, or some other unmistakable emblem, because ambiguity would require us to admit…
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Los Angeles Alt-Industrial Artist Staytus is Pulled by Danger and Desire in Video for “Secret Hand”
We’ll spread open to spread across the sky and I’ll take you with me on the day I die There are songs about temptation that behave like sermons, warning you about the cliff while…
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Duisburg Post-Punk Duo Mottek87 Examine What Progress Leaves Behind on “Kleinkunst” EP
Freedom is not the same as improvement, because freedom concerns our relationship to what happens, not merely the circumstances themselves. A prison can be renovated and still remain a prison…
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“For All We Care Is To Be Pleased” — Dutch New Wave Duo Pol Interviews Stylish Strangers in Video for “Sex Machines”
Hot gun, our promise bleeds You would never stop looking for me Have we left it all behind? Is it lust that’s holding the line? Intimacy becomes especially cruel once its gestures outlive the…
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Cult Goth Road Trip Movie “Gypsy 83” Returns in a Restored Director’s Cut — Expanded Soundtrack Features The Cure, Cocteau Twins, Echo & the Bunnymen, and More!
Twenty-five years is enough time for a cult film to acquire the patina of a period piece, but Gypsy 83 has always been preoccupied with people who regard the present tense as something to…
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NYC Artist Frankie Rose Travels the Cosmos in Video for “Return to Dust”
Grief has a strange relationship with distance. The dead may be unreachable in any practical sense, yet the mind keeps inventing routes toward them: dreams, remembered voices, photographs,…
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