“And you’re off into the burning blue” songwriter Dave Benton sings on “Ponies,” the centerpiece of Trace Mountains’ fourth full-length album Into the Burning Blue. Decorated with retro textures and violet flowers, the album begins with the crackle of a fire, as if something is burning and hatching into a new form. As Benton grappled with the end of an 8-year romantic relationship, songs were pouring out of him in quick succession, often urgently before he had logically processed the emotions himself.
Collectively, the songs are imbued with a spectrum of weighted emotions, but the blue continued to burn, with each song adopting its respective hue – a violet reclaiming of passion, a deep sea blue of sorrow, the sky blue moments of relief…
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While their debut album, Howling at a Concrete Moon, was drenched in modern anxieties and struggling to find one’s place in today’s society, London indie rock foursome Pynch are looking more inward on their second record together, trying to decipher what it really means to be an indie band in the confusing world they attempted to paint a picture of two years ago.
Alice Cohen has manifested throughout alternative music history in improbable ways, from MTV-era new wave with The Vels to Michael Stipe-produced grunge to 2000s hypnagogic pop.
Luv in the New World is the title of Canadian artist 
The mask and Stetson have become shorthand for 
Yes, yes, yes to guitar tones bent by volume, to tone-altered screech with dream-soft vocals flowing over, to pedal boards that look like good-sized train sets, yes to all of it.
It’s no secret that the world we know today is a dark, violent, frightening place. A recent joke making the rounds on the internet held that for Halloween, homeowners wouldn’t need to put up skeletons and witches to decorate, they would just have to lug the television outside and put on the news. It’s ever more important, then, that there are bands that sound like they’re having fun. They don’t necessarily have to have “fun” themes. They just need to make despair sound like a party. Boston five-piece 
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It’s funny to think that raptor house was literally inspired by dinosaurs. Its jagged synths and speedy 139+ BPM charge were a sonic sketch of Jurassic Park III’s velociraptors. And as you would hope with such a name, it has blazed a trail of devastation across dance floors for over two decades, thanks to its pioneer DJ Baba the Raptor, aka 
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For her third album, Nashville-based 
Mark Kozelek’s Sun Kil Moon has teamed up with the Hungarian band Amoeba for a remarkable cross-continental collaboration simply titled Sun Kil Moon featuring Amoeba. The album was recorded in Hungary throughout 2022 and 2023 and marks Kozelek’s first major international studio partnership in several years.
It’s 100% ‘Mission Possible’ for Northern Ireland’s indie-power pop legends, Ash. Their ninth studio album, Ad Astra, blasts off in turbocharged style, a blazing follow-up to 2023’s