Desperate Journalist Mourns the Messiness of Youth in Video for “Terrible Years” — New Album “Gilding the Lily” Announced!
You know it felt like a war, hungover on a parquet floor But now it’s like I hardly think about you anymore Adulthood is an exercise in presentation. We learn the correct expressions and…
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Eric Angelo Bessel Drifts Underwater in “Pathways” — New Album “Illusion of an Inland Ocean” Announced!
There are places on Earth that seem to contain more world than geography should permit. A shoreline at dusk, an abandoned road, a drowned foundation beneath still water: each can suggest that…
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Lowsunday Evoke the Beauty of Isolation in “Someone To Talk To”
You want someone to talk to Somewhere to run to In the dead of night No answers Lonely visions Pittsburgh-based post-punk/shoegaze band Lowsunday (also known in some circles as Low Sunday…
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“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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