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While Twerps’ loosely strummed, surf rock-leaning sound may come off as lackadaisical or willfully slack-jawed, their actual sentiment is "do or die." “Dreamin” begins with Twerps’ lead-singer Marty Frawley taking a stand: “I won’t back down, I gotta run as fast as I can,” and when Frawley ends with “I read
The first thing I noticed about “Oblivion,” the new single from Montreal-based avant-pop artist Grimes, is how much focus Claire Boucher puts on her vocals. On Geidi Primes, and much of her Darkbloom EP, Boucher's falsetto often served the role of an ambient affectation more than the driving force behind a track. The read
Swedish electronic producer Magnus Johansson (aka Bam Spacey) recently released his debut single “Vi Delar Samma Grav,” which in translation means “We Share the Same Grave.” While this may sound dark, the b-side, “Ström,” is a smooth piece of pop that’s the opposite of macabre. As Johansson’s heavily read
Swedish pop duo jj have been doing their St. Etienne-meets-Weezy thing for a few years now, but with each release they sound as fresh and inscrutable as ever. New single “Beautiful Life” takes a hook that lead-singer Elin Kastlander first sang on Spêcial Club’s "CELEBRIS" and stitches it together with a tapestry read
“This is how we live, us against the world,” begins Orthy’s new single, “Sueños” — a potentially misanthropic sentiment that, sung here, swells with naive contentedness. “Sueños” is Spanish for dreams, which is exactly what the song’s reverb-saturated pop brings to mind: summer sun, cool water, naps read
I remember first reading about Boris maybe six years ago, in comparison to ambient doom metal band Sunn O))), a group whose music is known for its molasses-like slowness and impenetrable darkness. When I actually heard Boris’ 2006 breakthrough LP Pink, I was surprised to find an album filled almost entirely with read
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