When Sydney outfit Daily Toll first surfaced in recorded fashion, it was with a series of rough, mostly outdoor, mostly live-to-device digital recordings, including their first EP, 2021’s It’s a Lot. Recorded in a day among natural sounds on Indigenous land with a handful of instruments in tow, including synths, accordion, mandolin, and bowed guitar, it revealed a duo (Kata Szász-Komlós and Jasper Craig-Adams) figuring out how to capture things like existential angst, passion, monotony, and truth in musical form. Longtime musician and friend Tom Stephens joined the project circa 2024, and the trio signed with Tough Love Records for their first studio recording and full-length release. The newly updated lineup continues to try things out…
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After the Madchester scene of the late ’80s merged neo-psychedelic indie pop with acid house, the crossover between club culture and alternative rock reached new heights during the second half of the ’90s, when journalists touted “electronica” as the next big thing. 
Miami’s cityscape can feel like a living organism. Take Brickell City Centre, a four-city-block condo-office-mall complex that literally breathes. It was designed to create a natural breeze in the Florida heat, so that the monstrous development would have to rely less on air conditioning. BCC is vaguely hideous on the outside, but inside its lines are clean, wavy, and oceanic, certainly gorgeous enough for a Sunglasses Hut. Brickell City Centre embodies the work of Arquitectonica, a local architecture firm that, since the 1970s, has remade Miami’s image with glass facades and curvy shapes. Their greatest buildings feel natural but also garishly artificial, and lend the city a hyperreal feeling—a sense of luxury and awe that defies the reality that the climate crisis could upend life…
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Austrian singer-songwriter 
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Album number 25 from the extraordinarily prolific 
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On a surface level, Cincinnati rockers