Category Archives: LISTEN

Pure Bathing Culture: “Pendulum”

Following one of the prettiest releases last year, which ranked very high among everything else in 2012, Portland’s Pure Bathing Culture is back with a shimmering new single that combines nearly every high point found on their previous EP into these four perfect minutes. “Pendulum” … Continue reading Continue reading

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Baby Birds Don’t Drink Milk: “Saturday”

New York-via-Kansas kids Baby Birds Don’t Drink Milk just got us really psyched for their upcoming album, Think Tone, by dropping a sprawling, primarily instrumental beauty of a single. “Saturday” is a gorgeous rendition of everythi… Continue reading

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Salvia Plath: “House of Leaves”

Here’s your new favorite jam for the mellowest of afternoons, courtesy of Salvia Plath. Unlike his former project Run DMT, this shifts into the more polished and accessible realm of breezy psych-pop. Salvia Plath’s debut album The Bardo Story is… Continue reading

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A Grave With No Name: “Aurora”

London’s Alexander Shields, better known as the mind behind A Grave With No Name, has a history of dropping some heartbreaking, meaningful music that’s criminally underrated (for those unfamiliar with his project, the beautiful “St… Continue reading

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Pure X: “Thousand Year Old Child”

Following a series of new ones, “Thousand Year Old Child” is yet another stunner from Pure X‘s sprawling upcoming album, Crawling Up the Stairs. The album, which is due May 14 via Acéphale, is no doubt on our radar as one of &#8230… Continue reading

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Andrew Cedermark: “Canis Major”

It’s inevitable that nearly every single Underwater Peoples release will land in our year-end lists in some form or another. The label’s aesthetic is clearly on its own level, shaped by the honesty and emotion behind its artists’ wo… Continue reading

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Coma Cinema: “Satan Made a Mansion”

Mat Cothran, the brains behind the bleak and hyper-personal project Coma Cinema, is back following a slew of self-released albums that we’ve fallen in love with over the years. Up until this point, Cothran’s appeal has always been his ho… Continue reading

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Beaches: “Send Them Away”

“Take those blues and send them away, don’t look back at the end of the day,” sings basically the entire band of Beaches, considering all five of the members contribute lovely harmonies in the Melbourne-based outfit. “Send Them … Continue reading

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Weekend: “Mirror”

Before this site launched last year, Weekend releases were very important to us. Their debut full-length Sports was one of our most listened to albums of 2010 and their follow-up Red EP landed near the top in 2011. The loud, post-punk trio has deve… Continue reading

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Pure X: “Someone Else”

You’ve heard the smoke-filled “Things In My Head”, and now Austin slow jam heros Pure X unveil the devastatingly raw “Someone Else.” This comes right on the heels of their forthcoming album, Crawling Up the Stairs, which… Continue reading

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