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Across Its Ten Tracks, Avaraj’s The Crumble Isn’t Neat, nor Should It Be

Heartbreak albums are nothing new. Everyone from Adele to your coworker with a ukulele has made one. But The Crumble, the debut full-length from Georgia-born singer-songwriter Avaraj, isn’t just about heartbreak. Rather, it’s about the aftermath when the love songs stop working and all that’s left is the noise in your head. Written in the […]

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For All Its Screaming, Distortion, and Collected Chaos, More Than It Leaves You With Is Not an EP About Despair; It’s About What’s Left After It

There’s a very specific kind of catharsis that only noisy, emotionally reckless post-hardcore can give you. It’s not pretty, and it’s not designed to be. It’s the kind of music that feels like someone finally snapping halfway through a breakup text and deciding to scream the rest of it into a microphone. Manhattan’s egret understand

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Sleeping Fits Is an Album About Friction Between the Organic and the Artificial

Matt Chabe’s debut as Sleeping Fits feels like the kind of record you stumble across by accident; an unassuming Bandcamp upload that turns out to be a miniature world of fuzz, heat, and human messiness. It’s the product of a one-man operation based outside Guadalajara, Mexico, recorded with what Chabe calls “busted amps and cheap

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The Sad Season Bring Back the Raw Heart of Rock on “It’s All Too Loud in Here”

The Sad Season isn’t lying when they named their EP “It’s All Too Loud in Here”. And it’s a whole experience that goes beyond mess and volume. It’s rock in its purest, deepest form, the one that’s heartfelt and brutal in one go. London-based band, The Sad Season was originally a duo consisting of Mikee

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“Live at the George Tavern”: A Reminder That the Most Exciting Thing About Music Is When It’s Happening Right Now

There’s an unspoken rule in the music industry that everyone just sort of accepts: never release live versions of songs that don’t already exist in studio form. You’re supposed to be sensible. Methodical. You record, you mix, you master; you remove all the dangerous edges before letting anyone actually hear you. CAN’T STOP TALKING clearly

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Bastion’s Wake “Go Tell the Bees” Is A Vessel Of Stories For Everyone Who Has Lived, Lost, and Returned

There’s something so intriguing when you name an album “Go Tell the Bees”. Like, excuse me, are we really talking to bees now? No — but close. So you listened to the album and realized Bastion’s Wake is onto something great, the kind that cannot be replicated by some AI or any formulaic pursuit to

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Future Magic and Voxx Use Electronic Sound Not as Armor but as Exposure on Collisions

There’s a particular kind of electronic music that sounds less like it was written and more like it was exorcised. Collisions by Future Magic & Robert Voxx is that kind of record; the kind that doesn’t arrive to make a scene, but to make sense of one. It’s five tracks of emotional detonation disguised as

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There’s a Certain Kind of Bravery in Writing a Song Like “Fly Away”

There’s a certain kind of bravery in writing a song like “Fly Away” It’s not the loud, triumphant kind you see in movie montages; it’s quieter, lonelier, and far more honest. This is a song about grief, but more than that, it’s about surviving it. Shy-Anne Hovorka, an award-winning songwriter and educator from northern Ontario,

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On Pertinax, Suris Are Out Here Writing Songs About Feeling Too Much

There’s something quietly rebellious about an album like Pertinax. Suris, composed of the duo of Lindsey and David Mackie, have decided to make something defiantly sincere. It’s the sound of two people who have been doing this long enough to know better, but went ahead and did it anyway. “Pertinax” literally means “resolute,” which is

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