TVAM and Riki Invoke Ancient Magic, Heartbreak, and Timeless Love in Ethereal Goth Dirge “The Sorrow”
A lament begins where ordinary speech reaches its limit. Across Irish and Scottish Gaelic traditions, keening gave bereavement a communal voice, allowing grief to rise through repeated cries,…
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Ontario Project Fear Maintenance Shares Heavy Cover of Joy Division’s “Shadowplay”
Joy Division’s Shadowplay has been covered enough times to qualify as communal property, which means anybody taking another swing at it ought to bring a crowbar. Fear Maintenance does. The…
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Mentallo & The Fixer Bring Landmark Album “Where Angels Fear To Tread” to Vinyl for the First Time
Texas electro-industrial veterans Mentallo & The Fixer are returning to one of the defining records in their catalog with a newly remastered edition of Where Angels Fear To Tread, due…
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“I Feel Like a Star Again” — Nyx Division Become the Architects of Their Own Destiny in “By Design”
I walk through fire with my head held high Is that really such a crime? Leaving a faith can redraw the borders of reality. Certainties that once governed time, guilt, desire, and the fate of…
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New Zealand Post-Punk Outfit Trauma Party Confronts the Political Circus in Fiery Video for “Roll Up (It’s the New Truth)”
They’re bringing their violence They’re bringing their bile They’re juggling their words They’re bringing the new truth Trauma Party have found the right instrument for…
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“Judgment in the Mirror” — Tomorrows Letters Puts the Mind on Trial with Noir Synthpop Single “Up Against the Wall”
The whispers in my mind, the echoes of my past, Judgment in the mirror, a reflection that will last. The mind can build a courtroom from almost nothing. A remembered phrase becomes evidence,…
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“The Lions Lie Here Waiting” — Dark Electronic Duo The Axiom Divide Releases “The Halls Of Amenti : Remixes”
The Axiom Divide begins with a grand premise: a doorway to hidden knowledge, an Egyptian afterlife reimagined as a psychological chamber where curiosity becomes a kind of initiation. On The…
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“Senator, What Can You Do?” — New Wave Artist Work Crush Debuts With Political Protest Song “Emotional Plea”
Wrote my Senator, “Senator, what can you do?” But my dear Senator, you sold your soul to AIPAC too. There is something painfully American in the picture Stephen Bluhm draws in Emotional Plea:…
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San Diego Synthpop Trio Twin Ritual Follow Love to the Edge of Another Person’s Pain on “Suffocate”
Patience is among the stranger disciplines of love because it asks a person to remain near suffering without assuming the authority to cure it. Anyone may promise companionship while happiness…
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Oxford Shoegaze Project Violet Oscillation Blooms in Reverb and Distortion on Debut EP “It Has Become Clear to Me That All Those Who Seek”
Oxford has certain ghosts to answer for. The Thames Valley once produced a generation of guitar bands who treated distortion less as decoration than physical substance, something capable of…
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