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The Spoiled and Corlyx Wander the City at Night in Video for Darkwave Duet “Ravenous”

Some tracks hit like a friendly tap on the shoulder, but Ravenous barges in like an uninvited guest at three in the morning: loud, hungry, and dragging trouble behind it.…

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Boston Trio Violet Nox are Lost in a Labyrinth of Surreal Synths and Ethereal Vocals in “Silvae”

Violet Nox makes music like they’re patching radio transmissions from a planet that shouldn’t exist. Their fascinating new record, Silvae, hums with frequencies that feel like they’ve been left out in…

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Sans Police, Sans Sérif — An Interview with Xavier Paradis of Automelodi

Montreal-based synth pop project Automelodi has been a forever favorite of mine ever since I first heard the deep growling synth lines of “Schema Corporel,” one of the most infectious…

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“Bound in Shadows” — Klime Kovaceski’s Neoclassical Ensemble LP Stirs with Melody, Memory, and Melancholy

Some records arrive like a jolt; others seep in like fog. Klime Kovaceski’s Bound in Shadows belongs to the latter category: a work that veritably alters the temperature of the…

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Berlin Synth Duo Minimal Schlager Returns With After-hours Anthem “‘Midnight Runner”

It begins as a shimmer on the horizon, a radiance without source, gathering itself into form the way a hymn gathers breath. Soon the air trembles with its ascent: the…

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Vancouver Post-Punk Outfit H.Ä.L.T. Raise Their Wounded Banner in Video for “Hands & Crosses”

You ever feel like sometimes You’re born just to be sacrificed Mothers bore the chosen ones Blood will run from your hands and crosses H.Ä.L.T.’s “Hands & Crosses” arrives like…

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Home Front Visits the Liminal Space Between Growing Up and Growing Apart With “Between The Waves”

We are all choking on the fumes of a dying empire and calling it perfume. The rich sit fat and serene, gorging on our futures, while we’re left to claw…

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Begging Dog (Jeff Kleinman of Choir Boy) Revisits His Salt Lake City Years With “Common Place”

Begging Dog stomps into the room like someone kicking open a stuck basement door. It’s just Jeff Kleinman, shaking off the Choir Boy shimmer for something scrappier, stranger, and stitched…

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Dark Dreampop Duo Magic Wands Release New Album “Cascades” via Metropolis Records

Something fated shines through in the way Magic Wands move, as if they’ve been orbiting this precise sound since the first time they struck a chord. Chris and Dexy Valentine…

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Dark Pop Songtress Georgi Has a White Wedding in Her Video for “Drummer Boy” (Co-Starring Jon Siren)

Georgi’s Drummer Boy plays like a pink wedding cake left out in the rain: soggy, sweet, and strange enough to eat anyway. It’s pop with teeth, rock with a hangover,…

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