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Getting Killed by Geese

For fans of Radiohead, Modest Mouse, The Catcher in the Rye, and screaming your way through a brick wall, Getting Killed by Geese delivers yet another left hook in what has become one of the most impressive catalogues in rock music of this century.

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LSD by Cardiacs

Continuing this British prog legend’s tradition of psychedelic, maximalist rock with a punk energy, LSD takes a baby step back in raw intensity while dialing up the theatrics.

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Come Back Down by Total Wife

For fans of My Bloody Valentine, Belle and Sebastian, Squarepusher, internet emo, and that moment when you first wake up and trick yourself into thinking everything will be ok, Come Back Down by Total Wife offers their ethereal shoegaze experiments as a companion for the bleakest form of loneliness.

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Sametou Sawtan by SANAM

For fans of Molchat Doma, Lingua Ignota, krautrock, and that knot that forms in your throat when you realize an insane headline isn’t a hoax, Sametou Sawtan by SANAM examines our paradoxical detachment from the world using a perspective found at the core of the region most impacted by colonialism.

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Take Enough Leeway by Mule Jenny

For fans of Fugazi, Tool, The Mars Volta, 80s college rock, and that nagging trace of unease in between anxiety attacks, Take Enough Leeway by Mule Jenny crafts a refreshingly accessible, instantly relistenable indie rock record paradoxically full of dissonant, angular sounds.

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Dogs in Heaven by Silver Gore

For fans of Jockstrap, Magdalena Bay, MGMT, and wild emotional swings  resulting from a firm commitment to living in the moment, Dogs in Heaven by Silver Gore takes post-hyperpop into directions subtly cinematic yet charmingly personal.

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Pain to Power by Maruja

For fans of Geordie Greep, Black Country, New Road, YHWH Nailgun, and punk-adjacent rock that’s also debatably rap music, Pain to Power by Maruja rallies the people in a hopeful psalm augmented by the tumultuous emotions of windmill scene post rock.

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Camgirl by Crippling Alcoholism

For fans of Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds, Chelsea Wolfe, Touche Amore, and the subversion of presently popular aesthetics in alternative rock radio, Camgirl by Crippling Alcoholism illuminates the unresolved trauma pulling the strings of our deeply sick culture.

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Dizzy Magic by Syko Friend

For fans of Big Thief, Poor Creature, The New Eves, early minimalist post rock, and the psychedelic energy subconsciously emanating from traditional Western folk music, Dizzy Magic by Syko Friend uses looping song structures to freely improvise in a tightly emotionally pointed setting.

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Hagen by Titanic

For fans of Bjork, Beach House, and Black Country, New Road, Hagen by Titanic immerses us in the apocalypse with their impossibly polished brand of neoclassical, experimental pop music.

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God’s Gonna Give You a Million Dollars by Shallowater

For fans of American Football, Slint, Nick Drake, slowcore, and the tragic soul trapped inside an indifferent country music industry, God’s Gonna Give You a Million Dollars by Shallowater paints an eerily familiar, deeply depressive mosaic, capturing the zeitgeist in an unlikely union of traditional Americana and experimental rock.

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Tell Me Life’s Funny by Evangelism

For fans of Manaleek, War Room, post punk revival, and that magical mix of sincerity and surrealism that only an experimental punk project could provide, Tell Me Life’s Funny by Evangelism puts an expansive instrumental lineup to work by inviting us into a passionate, flamboyant, yet fundamentally stagnant world not too dissimilar from our own.

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Strawberry by Prayer Group

For fans of Boris, Sentries, My Wife’s an Angel, crossover hardcore punk, and that voice in the back of your head screaming at the top of its lungs, Strawberry by Prayer Group combines industrial, punk, and sludge to create the ultimate soundtrack to contemporary rage.

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Like a Bayou To Its Gulf by Christina Carter

There are still places where the roads don't reach. Parishes hidden so deep in the backwoods, the outside world forgets they exist. It’s the record Like a Bayou To Its Gulf by Christina Carter that gives a glimpse inside of these insular communities where life goes on long after erasure from roadmaps.

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Gucked Up by Guck

For fans of YHWH Nailgun, Chat Pile, hardcore punk energy in strange packaging, and a noisy aesthetic sensibility to meet a noisy moment, Gucked Up by Guck crafts a mosaic of heavy music to vent an extreme level of frustration.

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EVERYTHING BURNS! by Nakama.

For fans of JPEGMAFIA, Lil Ugly Mane, sound collage, and diary entries from the apocalypse, EVERYTHING BURNS! by Nakama. matches the schizophrenic psyche of our time with an instantly individual style of heavy hip hop.

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