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Stream Blank Realm’s Go Easy Album
Blank Realm‘s Go Easy didn’t get too much play when Siltbreeze released it the first time around, but it’s definitely worth a second listen for fans of that elusive halfway point between shambolic noodling and … read more »
Stream: Octo Octa, “Please Don’t Leave”
With “Please Don’t Leave,” Brooklyn producer Octo Octa departs from a single, variously pitched vocal refrain (I don’t want to let you go) and offsets its mechanized humanity with a dreamy palette of reverby synths … read more »
Ma, You Be Killin’ Em: Marlyse Henchoz
We have so much to thank our mothers for. In addition to birthing us, feeding us, and bathing us, they’ve also been our most influential style icons. As a small token of our affection, we’re … read more »
Stream RP Boo’s Legacy Album
Despite it’s frenetic BPM and all-over-the-place sound sources, there’s a sensuousness and simplicity of form and drop-dead-gorgeous musicality to RP Boo’s Planet Mu debut that will make the Chicago footwork pioneer’s music stand out from … read more »
Stream: Stellar Om Source, “Elite Excel”
Flash back to the lo-fi synth music explosion of 2 or 3 years ago, and the name Stellar Om Source was floating around quite a bit. With an album on Olde English Spelling Bee and … read more »
Stream: Ryan Power, “The Prize”
Burlington, Vermont singer-songwriter Ryan Power isn’t all that well known, but he makes the kind of off-kilter, dementedly complicated outsider pop that people (specifically, other musicians) get obsessed with. “The Prize” is the lead single … read more »
Stream: Nine Inch Nails, “March of the Pigs (Superhumanoids Cover)”
Nine Inch Nails‘ 1994 single “March of the Pigs” has never really been for the feint of heart; it’s got a jagged, unpredictable meter, and sounds so dense and abrasive for the majority of its … read more »
Stream: Courtship Ritual, “Wild Like Us”
There’s something beautifully lethargic about “Wild Like Us” by Brooklyn duo Courtship Ritual. A shimmering, shoegazey guitar loop joins forces with a drum beat that sounds a good deal like the one on “Be My … read more »
Stream ADULT.’s The Way Things Fall album
After touring in support of their 2007 album, Why Bother?, The Detroit-based duo of Adam Lee Miller and Nicola Kuperus took an extended break from the album cycle. Consequently, ADULT.‘s beat-driven, synth-based sound—melodic at its … read more »
Video: Grimes, “Venus in Fleurs”
Over the weekend, Grimes went public with a never-before-seen video for “Venus in Fleurs,” a track from her 2010 debut, Geidi Primes. Shot in the Reifel Bird Sanctuary in British Columbia by director friend Video … read more »
