Protected: Maybe 19 Years Was Exactly What Brendan Ranney Needed for “Slightly Out of Focus”
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Magenta Ray’s “A Kiss Like This” Is A Sultry Alt-Rock Excuse To Do It For The Plot
Desire sounds different when you run it through an alternative-rock amp. Somewhere in the studio, Magenta Ray must have figured out exactly how to make it with their latest single, A Kiss Like This. Magenta Ray could easily settle for being another guitar-driven rock band. But they chose something darker, stranger, and far more seductive.
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Protected: The House Flies’ “Derelict Crawl” Is A Post-Punk Descent Into the Weight of Not Belonging
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Adam James Returns to His Roots With Reflective Rocker “Mad ’Bout You”
Sometimes you have to look back in order to go forward, and this is exactly what Adam James has managed to achieve with his latest single ‘Mad ‘Bout You’. Looking to his influences, Adam’s latest track makes sure not to miss out any element along the way, proving that we’re able to draw on the
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The Fine Line Between Fear and Fascination Sounds A Lot Like Rob Fletcher’s “Hells Gate”
Most artists try to make fear sound as loud as possible. Somehow, Rob Fletcher never felt the need to. As if he trusted the listener to sit with discomfort instead of drowning it out in his latest single, Hells Gate. Hailing from Wonthaggi, Australia, Rob Fletcher approaches alternative rock with an unwavering commitment to complete
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The Best Part of Kristy Chmura’s “11:11” Is That It Never Tries to Heal Too Soon
It definitely takes some courage for an artist to make grief this audible while everyone tries to distill it down until it’s easier to digest. And that’s probably why the honesty in 11:11 by Kristy Chmura feels earned and sacred. Kristy Chmura continues to cement her path through intimate lyricism and emotive vocals with her
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Milyam Knows Better Than to Stay Broken in “Dream”
Two minutes definitely feels short, but for Milyam, it’s enough to prove a point. No lengthy intros, no complex production, just a little bit of attitude and haziness to make you stop what you’re doing and pay attention to all the things she’s about to say. Dream started off strong with its atmospheric, spacious beats,
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Naoko Finds Quiet Beauty in the Temporary on “Sea of Light”
Some songs ask for your attention; others achieve it by politely declining to scream into the aether. Naoko Hiranuma’s new “Sea of Light” firmly belongs in the second half. Between its sparse folk structure and airy dream-pop layers to the candid vocal performance, this is a track unfolding at the patient pace of a person
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SoundFarm Gets Messy With the Grooves on “Suck It Up”
There’s a certain amount of swagger required to release a song that happily leaves its threads out on the seams. Modern music tends to devolve into a contest to weed out every single human flaw and to force every drum to align to the grid or smoothen vocals until they might qualify for a passport
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