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Lola Young – Conceited

With its stark, damning lyrical accusations and an arrestingly erratic groove - not to mention it's stunner of an act three twist - "Conceited" is a stormy portrait of a toxic love affair painted upon the canvas of its off-kilter and cleverly turbulent arrangement. It's also a brief and striking distillation of everything that makes its parent album - and Young's music in general - so compelling.

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Royel Otis – Claw Foot

"Claw Foot" ... is a tightly constructed and eminently catchy exemplar of Royel Otis' sterling approach to alt-pop/rock. The song's bass-heavy rhythmic figure and chimey guitars are immediately evocative of genre paragons like Joy Division and The Cure, while it's breakneck pace and chanted chorus keep things sounding fresh and the energy high.

The cover of the single "Alone" by the Cure

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The Cure – Alone

Though frontman Robert Smith might protest easy categorization, The Cure are without a doubt one of the seminal gothic rock bands of all time. Pop-twinged and radio friendly hits like "Friday I'm in Love" or "Just Like Heaven" exist alongside the kind of haunting, angst-filled odes like "One Hundred Years" or "Lullaby" that helped define the goth rock phenomenon. "Alone," the legendary band's first new release in well over a decade and the lead single from their upcoming album Songs of a Lost World, sees the band return to that latter sort of peak brooding form after a considerable hiatus.

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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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SEDIVY – What’s My Luck

impressionistic lyrics and given definition by impeccable production values, "What's My Luck" is a dynamic and cathartic evocation of longing that in less skilled hands could easily have been a mosaic of contrasting musical idioms, but is instead a deft blend of styles that conveys holistically much more than its individual parts suggest.

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Peter Gabriel – Been Undone (Dark-Side Mix)

...Gabriel's effort is both topically and musically meditative, calling attention to the mechanical complexity and humanitarian pathos of the matter at hand without devolving into the paranoia that often accompanies artistic appraisals of the looming specter of the digital future.

Green Day from the video "The American Dream is Killing Me.

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Green Day – The American Dream is Killing Me

Saviors ain’t just an album, folks; it’s a damn key to the twisted mindscape of Green Day. These cats have...

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Father John Misty – Josh Tillman and the Accidental Dose

"Josh Tillman and the Accidental Dose" is at it's core a classic-sounding chunk of tuneful, piano-and-guitar-driven melodicism, underscored by a colorful and ever-present orchestral accompaniment. The phrase "Beatlesque" immediately spills out to describe this particular union of elements, though "Accidental Dose" owes much, if not more, to later additions in that particular musical idiom the Fab Four helped to define. Tillman's soulful vocal is more Joe Cocker than McCartney, and song's almost playful arrangement recalls something that could be found on Nilsson Schmilsson as much as it does, say, "I Am The Walrus."

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Chairman Maf – The Sea

Trip hop artist Chairman Maf brings us the latest track of the week from Rumor Control and it is the...

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Asian Dub Foundation & Iggy Pop – No Fun (ADF30 Rework)

Asian Dub Foundation are known for their eclectic, genre-bending brand of electronic music combining everything from dancehall to raga, and are no strangers to the gritty, guitar-driven aesthetics of punk rock. That said, a collaboration with the Godfather of Punk himself definitely dials that influence up to an entirely different level.

Cover art for SSLy Scout's single I And I

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SSLy Scout – I And I

“A seismic steppers cut that detonates inside the echo chamber — bass you feel in your lungs before your ears catch it, tape delays like slow-moving electrical storms. SSLy Scout pushes Bristol’s dub tradition forward with authority and grace.” — RumorControl (9.1)

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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Track of the Week

Lola Young – Conceited

Royel Otis – Claw Foot

The Cure – Alone

Childish Gambino – Atavista

SEDIVY – What’s My Luck

Peter Gabriel – Been Undone (Dark-Side Mix)

Green Day – The American Dream is Killing Me

Father John Misty – Josh Tillman and the Accidental Dose

Chairman Maf – The Sea

Asian Dub Foundation & Iggy Pop – No Fun (ADF30 Rework)

SSLy Scout – I And I

Mei Semones – Animaru

Jesus The Dinosaur – Empty Space

Robert Ellis Orrall – Where Do We Go From Here?

Tenja in Dub feat. Blackout JA – ‘SYSTEM KILLA’

Dirt Road Souls – Next To You

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Markee Ledge – Mind Body Soul