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Danielle Ponder – Roll The Credits

"Roll The Credits" makes an absolute monster of a groove out of what, upon closer inspection, turns out to be relatively few elements. ...That said, the sum of these parts is positively colossal, bounding forward with an unimpeachably soulful stride.

The cover of Mei Semones' album "Animaru," featuring a painting of a rat's back with wings surrounded by a kaleidoscopic pattern

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Mei Semones – Animaru

... "Animaru" contains multitudes, being on the one hand as unpredictable and wild as its namesake would imply, and on another a carefully sonic opus.

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Lovina Falls – “Vaulted”

"Vaulted," featured on Lovina Fall's recently minted LP "Calculating the Angle of Our Descent," is a delightful amalgamation of old-school songcraft served up with a modern character.

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Hozier – Hymn to Virgil

"Hymn to Virgil" mines elements from almost as many musical idioms as its source material did characters from classical myth. It evokes a cavernous yet dense atmosphere thick as an arboreal mist and heavy as six feet of soil, and from that fertile sonic ground springs something that sounds like indie folk gone dark pop gone movie score.

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Childish Gambino – Atavista

The song “Atavista” sees Glover return to peak R&B form. Soulful and impeccably groovy in the vein of earlier hits like “Redbone,” and touched with added flair from some trendy retro-futuristic synthesizer pulsations, it feels something like a mission statement for the album at large. "Atavism," per Merriam-Webster, means among other things the "recurrence of or reversion to a past style, manner, outlook, approach, or activity." On an album that itself fits that definition to a tee, "Atavista"

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Dub FX – Flow feat. Woodnote

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Kittens on the Beat

Savant put out an adorable new video to one of their songs called “Wildstyle”, but the video itself is titled...

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Dua Lipa – Houdini

With a synth bass-heavy, disco-injected groove, "Houdini" evokes a a crisply contemporary take on the drum machine-driven dance floor standards of yore.

An image of artist Tamara Hope, also known as The Weather Station

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The Weather Station – Mirror

Receiving particular acclaim following the release of 2021's album Ignorance, The Weather Station has spent the intervening years refining a particular blend of indie, folk, and jazz, through to their newly released record Humanhood. "Mirror," the album's third track and most recent single, epitomizes that style, just as its accompanying video realizes it into a wider spectrum of the senses.

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MACKLEMORE & RYAN LEWIS – THRIFT SHOP

The Macklemore & Ryan Lewis ‘Thrift Shop’ video is the newest Rumor Control track of the week. These guys are...

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Sun Not Yellow – Younger Me

PA-based indie rock outfit Sun Not Yellow has made a habit of applying their own distinct sensibilities to a wide array of styles since their 2017 inception, and their latest single "Younger Me" is a perfect microcosm of that melting pot mentality. This latest offering sees the group adding Dawes-esque folk rock to their genre grab-bag, organically touched with the idiosyncrasies that make the group stick out from a multitude of others operating in that same, heavily saturated sphere.