Welcome to the short list of non-local music I found compelling over the past year, much of it is informed by seeing the artist live. Hope this list is interesting and useful to you as well as the extended list to be published on queencitysoundsandart.wordpress.com in early 2024. MSPAINT — POST-AMERICAN Posi anti-capitalist synthcore post-punk. SWEEPING PROMISES — GOOD LIVING IS COMING FOR YOU Post-riot grrrl New Wave lo-fi indiepop. PROTOMARTYR — FORMAL GROWTH IN THE DESERT Despair and transcendence through intense songs of melancholic catharsis. SDH — FAKE IS REAL Beginning to end thoughtful industrial darkwave bangers. SEXTILE — PUSH The post-punk / big beat / IDM / gabber / trance fusion you need in your life. SHABAZZ PALACES — ROBED IN RARENESS Cosmic and mystical ambient hip-hop leaning into the poetry of socio-cultural time travel. SLEAFORD MODS — UK GRIM Stream-of-spicily-irreverent-antiauthoritarian-social-consciousness industrial post-punk hip-hop. SPEEDY ORTIZ — RABBIT RABBIT Witty and ambitious art pop exorcisms of trauma and destructive power dynamics. SPRAIN — THE LAMB AS EFFIGY A furious and inspired collision of performance art, progressive post-punk and psychedelic, angular hardcore. STRANGE RANGER — PURE MUSIC Seamless and immersive amalgamation of future garage, shoegaze and indie pop. STUCK — FREAK FREQUENCY Wiry noise punk manifestos against the empty promises of a decaying empire. Y LA BAMBA — LUCHA Explorative, Latin psych folk that reconciles the multiplicity of identity. YO LA TENGO — THIS STUPID WORLD Thrillingly avant-garde and thematically pointed later career offering that doesn’t skimp on the tender moments from the foundational indie rock legends. FOR MORE, VISIT: QUEENCITYSOUNDSANDART.WORDPRESS.COM 31 TALEEN KALI — FLOWER OF LIFE Spirited post-garage punk shoegaze psychedelia. THE KEENING — LITTLE BIRD Orchestral and cinematic Gothic folk murder ballads. THE SERFS — HALF EATEN BY DOGS Retrofuturist, dystopian death disco synth punk. TROLLER — DRAIN Strikingly melancholic, fractured industrial shoegaze dream pop. WATER FROM YOUR EYES – EVERYONE’S CRUSHED Sample-driven, mutant IDM pop with off center rhythm beatmaking. WEDNESDAY — RAT SAW GOD Inspired and brash yet vulnerable heavy shoegaze and indie country pop.
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