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“Anuther Sunny Hulliday” Is an Irresistibly Catchy Reminder That Sometimes the Best Summer Songs Aren’t the Ones That Are Necessarily Cool

“Anuther Sunny Hulliday” tries to subvert the summertime anthem-quite the opposite-but because it seems entirely unfazed by whatever algorithm-approved brand of “summer vibes” currently dominates streaming platforms. Instead, Mick J. Clark has delivered something that feels like it’s meandered in from a forgotten decade, tote bag in one hand, novelty sunglasses in the other, and […]

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A Haunting Alt-Rock Waltz for the Disenfranchised Creative

The air in the room thickens when 5PM MORNING hits the first chord of Waterfalls because this music demands a complete surrender to its heavy and swirling atmosphere. It feels like waking up in a house you haven’t lived in for twenty years but every floorboard still knows the specific weight of your step. This

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Reetoxa’s “You Deserve Better Than Me” Is the Breakup Song That Knows When to Walk Away

There are roughly six billion songs ever written about getting someone back. The entire pop landscape is built around elaborately creative ways of singing “Actually, could we just sort of rewind everything?” so it’s a bizarre novelty to hear a song take the path less taken and acknowledge something infinitely harder to admit: you’re pretty

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A Grime-Streaked Declaration of Groove From the Heart of Dublin

“Dublin winters brew a specific kind of violence and Charnel Crown has bottled that restless energy to deliver a track that hits with the weight of a lead pipe to the shins.” Dublin winters brew a specific kind of violence and Charnel Crown has bottled that restless energy for their latest single In For A

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The Most Extraordinary Thing About Bottle Is That It Sounds Nothing at All Like a Museum Piece

It’s a beautifully romantic notion that a songwriter might spend thirty years sitting on one of his finest ideas. Not in the cinematic, ‘lost masterpiece’ sense, but in the more plausible sense that some people hang on to a good bottle of wine on the shelf until a day arrives that seems ‘worthy’ of opening

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Philmac’s “Live My Life” Is Hardly Going to Reinvent the Wheel of Motivational Music, but It Does Manage to Deliver a Much Deeper Experience

There’s a whole subgenre of inspirational music that runs on the concept of if you think hard enough, the universe will reward you with achievement, bliss and the inevitable epic sunset during the montage sequence. Actual persistence is rarely as cinematically inclined. However, it’s usually waiting; waiting for an email to drop in your inbox,

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Dorian Manages to Spin Awkwardness Into Pure, Ecstatic Euphoria on OOO

For an artist who has spent the better part of six years releasing genre-hopping indie projects, Dorian seems surprisingly uninterested in hewing to the contemporary dance-pop blueprint. From a bouncy bassline, pristine synth textures, layered backup vocals, a singalong-ready chorus that seems expressly designed to compel you to the nearest dancefloor-but what distinguishes OOO from

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