MELT-BANANA – 3+5 Hyperkinetic bursts of joyful industrialized noise rock like a soundtrack to an intense sidescroller. MOLCHAT DOMA – BELAYA POLOSA The most representative of the band’s rich and engulfing live sound and expansive gloomy moods to date. MORGAN GARRETT – PURITY Brilliantly deconstructed and fractured No Wave nü metal industrial noise folk. MOUNT KIMBIE – THE SUNSET VIOLENT A measured yet entrancing vacation from overstimulation through tender minimalism. PHARMAKON – MAGGOT MASS A tribal power electronics equivalent of the most disorienting passages of an Alex Garland film. PISSED JEANS – HALF DIVORCED A caustic and urgent dismantling of the multifold manifestations of American hubris. THE PRIDS – I ONLY CARE ABOUT YOU AND ME Elegiac dream pop snapshots of regret and romantic fervor. For more, visit queencitysoundsandart.wordpress.com 29 TASSEL – A SACRIFICE: UNTO IDOLS Industrial death goth declarations of selfaffirmation and liberation. STUDDED LEFT – CASUAL FLEXER The hypnotic mutant creative offspring of mid-70s Eno, Magazine, industrial psych, New Wave romanticism and Pink Reasonesque revolution rock with chill vibes. SUUNS – THE BREAKS Slackadaisical IDM psychedelia leaning into passages of orchestral indie art rave. TACTICAL PAGAN – S/T Industrial world funk noise and dungeon downtempo. URBAN HEAT – THE TOWER Soulful and commanding fusion of darkwave, emo and R&B. VR SEX – HARD COPY Caustic, psychedelic post-punk infused with industrial flavor and irreverent humor. WAND – VERTIGO Lush, enigmatic, melancholic, expansive and rapturous psychedelia. WASHED OUT – NOTES FROM A QUIET LIFE Mind cleansing melodies that drift through reflections on melancholia and loss to feelings of gratitude, acceptance and inner peace. SEX SWING – GOLDEN TRIANGLE Like a Krautrock Butthole Surfers UK in its psychedelic intensity and lunatic calm. SHELLAC – TO ALL TRAINS Insightful, wryly and starkly humorous sketches of American angst cast in wiry minimalism. STREET FEVER – ABSOLUTION Hard darkrave anthems of recovery and perseverance in exorcising religious trauma and cycles of abuse. THOU – UMBILICAL A seething and brutal testimonial to the power of ideas and articles of faith to compel and scar our psyches. TORRES – WHAT AN ENORMOUS ROOM Creatively ambitious, experimental indie glam art rock. UBOA – IMPOSSIBLE LIGHT An epic and vulnerable hellscape of revelation and transformative anguish.
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