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“Hunab Ku” doesn’t feel like a band coming back so much as a band resuming a thought mid-sentence. The album
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Early ’90s Finland wasn’t exporting punk with today’s modern mainstream vibe or cheap slogans — it was exporting noise, anger,
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Three years since their last record VOR, the German outfit formerly called Tourette Boys comes back swinging. Thanks, I Hate It drops Friday through Exile On Mainstream, and the title tells you
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A south east London four-piece recording shoegaze in a living room with a podcast mic — that’s where Foolspring made “Flytrap,” and it sounds exactly like it should: close, ethereal, heavy with feeling. Foolspring sit in what they call “the nocturnal corner of dreamy
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Pittsburgh hardcore outfit Unreal City went silent after their 2020 debut “Cruelty of Heaven” dropped on Closed Casket Activities. Not the dramatic kind of silent — just life pulling people in different directions. Vocalist Joseph Sanderson moved to Southeast Asia and started fighting Muay
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