Phoebe Bridgers—Punisher
Phoebe Bridgers sounds exhausted. She always has, though: on "Motion Sickness" (off her 2017 debut, Stranger in the Alps), she sings, in monotone, "I hate you for what you did…
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Small Forward – Small Forward
LA-based trio Small Forward makes music that alleviates the mind and soul. Their debut album arrives at time where we need it the most. While the band performs in the…
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Best Ex – Good At Feeling Bad
At the intersection of modern pop and dance exists a reality that is much more fun, a new melancholy much boppier, a world delightful—something like Best Ex’s new record Good…
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The 1975—Notes on A Conditional Form
Matty Healy is not concerned with palatability. The slow-rolling thunder that announced the arrival of The 1975's Notes On A Conditional Form, out May 22nd via Dirty Hit, has had music fans perched…
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Polo G – The GOAT
Polo G is a certified star and one of the latest talents to blow from Chicago's unique lineage of young rap phenoms. Over the last decade, the city has become…
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Hablot Brown – OPAQUE EP
Hablot Brown is a trio made up of Linus Lester-Hodges (vocals, songwriting) who grew up in Singapore, and twin brothers Austin Brown (production, keys, bass, guitar) and John Brown (drums, co-writing), who are from Massachusetts.…
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Yung Lean – Starz
Legendary underground Swedish vocalist Yung Lean has just dropped his highly anticipated new full length album Starz. The last LP from Lean came back in 2017 with the ambient dreamscape Stranger, which was…
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The Wrecks — Infinitely Ordinary
The Wrecks set out to write their debut album almost three years ago, but it wasn’t always smooth sailing. Between changing labels, rewriting new songs, and shifting their sound forward,…
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Surf Rock is Dead — Existential Playboy
Brooklyn-based duo Surf Rock is Dead (SRiD) has been noodling out riffs and formulating a nostalgic hybrid of post-punk and dream-pop since 2015. Five years later, their debut LP, Existential…
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Caleb Landry Jones — The Mother Stone
You probably know Caleb Landry Jones for portraying Allison Williams' deranged younger brother in Get Out. Or perhaps for getting thrown out a window in 3 Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri. It turns…
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Kari Faux – Lowkey Superstar
Half reckless, half unapologetic, 100 percent authentic: this is what comes to mind when trying to summarize the captivating aura of Kari Faux. It's easy to want to classify her…
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Westside Gunn — Pray for Paris
Last weekend Griselda Records-own Westside Gunn, put out his new album Pray for Paris. The release included cameos from label-mates Conway the Machine and Benny the Butcher, and also special appearances from…
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