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According to the stats, I’ve listened to one of Jungle’s most recent singles 36 times since I heard it the first time 3 days ago. This band hasn’t been around for long, but their sound rapidly became iconic and unrivaled. There isn’t another band that sounds like Jungle. Cherry is an unabashedly Jungle track with an excellent little breakdown, but the beauty lives in the simple sentiment, “You’re never gonna change me; I was already changin’.”
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In the beautifully soft-spoken words of Haley Heynderickx herself, “that song was about bugs.” The finger-picking, the speak-singing, the gentle storytelling, the harmonies, the trombone peaking through all come together to make The Bug Collector an excellently round, surrounding embrace of a song. She tries her best.
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Aggressively prolific garage rocker Ty Segall has collaborated with White Fence again and it’s almost masterfully lazy. I say masterfully because songs like She Is Gold sort of lull you into a false sense of nothing going on before you get rolled over with classic Californian garage rock. Nothing extravagant to see here, it’s just good ol’ fashioned weirdo rock music.
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MØ can’t stop. Her lengthy debut LP came out 4 years ago, but the amount of stand-alone tracks she’s put out (with or without Diplo) in these interim years could occupy another two full lengths. She’s putting out the followup Forever Neverland (blech) October 19th. Sun In Our Eyes, coming from the Danish pop hit-maker a couple weeks ago maybe sounds like you think it will. It’s admittedly a departure from the ‘career make-or-break’ attitude her music once had, but if you enjoy a pop song from a virtuoso with an unparalleled voice and could use a summer soundtrack with some bounce, then MØ is always happy to oblige. She can’t stop and we don’t want her to.
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edit. She could, however, stop by naming her album something less obvious, but it’s soo 2018, so I get it. It’s also soo 2008-2017, so maybe I don’t get it.
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This past Monday I saw Now, Now for the second time and in the same venue both times. This past performance was somehow more moving than the first. Maybe it’s because I’m a sucker for minor notes and sentiment, but when Cacie started really feeling the moment, her mother being there, our relentless energy and excitement, and began to cry, so did I, the person I was with and I imagine we weren’t alone. SGL served both as a crowd pleaser and an album opener, but I think here it best serves as a peak into the kind of feeling we all had Monday night. I’m still emotionally exhausted from that concert and it’s fucking Friday.
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Since I saw Nilüfer Yanya this past weekend, I can’t get Baby Luv out of my head. The melody, the way it flows into itself and is never too sharp or jarring makes it an excellent little earworm. Her show, much like her music, is solidly understated, but the quality is currently grossly under appreciated.
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6 approximate weeks ago I saw Cardioid open for Caroline Rose and I was awestruck. I think a lot about energy, electricity and the importance of instinctual feelings, all of which are admittedly different versions of the same thing, but I felt those profound emotions at their concert.. There’s something beautifully anthemic in how gentle and crooning Tidal is. With each passing listen to their 2017 Parts Dept. I find more and more to love.
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It’s common knowledge at this point that women kicking ass in rock songs hits me more than most genres. Dream Wife are no exception to that experience and Fire exemplifies this feeling perfectly. It has that garage rock sound that brings you into the room it was recorded. There’s next-to-no disconnect between recording and performance and with that there’s beauty to be found in the intensity of the intimacy; it’s there and it’s all-encompassing, but it’s not necessarily for you.
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I have to leave my apartment to get on a bus to get on a train to get on a plane in about ten minutes and I’ve been awake since 9:30am yesterday, let’s make this snappy. Girlpool makes music I generally don’t care about because it’s a little too on the nose. Soup occupies that same fascinating space of being exactly what it’s supposed to be, but it’s heavy, it’s a throat punch and it’s unforgiving. They made a song with something at stake and that’s fucking major.
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After having missed an ever-so-rare opportunity to see my favorite Nashville band All Them Witches over in Ballard tonight, I must gush; if I couldn’t see them, goddamn it you’re gonna want to. The Marriage Of Coyote Woman – at least by my hand – has disrupted domesticity three cities deep for over five years running simply by sheer volume. The undeniably endearing and sexual qualities sweating from these multi-instrumental blues riffs make me crazy. Few songs contort my facial expression along with the notes in ways both base and sporadic.
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