HILARY WOODS – NIGHT CRIÚ Engrossing drone folk dream noir pop. PLANNING FOR BURIAL – IT’S CLOSENESS, ITS EASY An entire album of raging grief and acceptance of loving reconnection. HORSEGIRL – PHONETICS ON AND ON A fascinating orchestration of space, texture, momentum to express emotional immediacy. PYRAMIDS – PYTHAGORAS Sublimely melodic black metal shoegaze reggaeton. JAPANESE BREAKFAST – FOR MELANCHOLY BRUNETTES (& SAD WOMEN) Orchestral meditations on getting exactly what you thought you wanted. KAPUT – I Invigorating clawings for vitality and dignity against the anxieties of the attention economy and late capitalism. KNOX CHANDLER – THE SOUND Visual/musical manifestations of transitions from urban life to the tranquil rural. KILYNN LUNSFORD – PROMISCUOUS GENES Peak weirdo No Wave poignant post-punk pop genius. LANA DEL RABIES – OMNIPOTENT FUCK Diamanda Galás-esque death industrial dissection of the darkest ends of romance and sexuality. LATTER – WHAT LIVES INSIDE OF ME A sustained shredding of the idea that one’s humanity is disposable. LAVEDA – LOVE, DARLA Noise dream pop songs of post-heartbreak and self-rediscovery. MARISSA NADLER – NEW RADIATIONS Lush, stirring Lynch-soundtrack-esque dream folk. MASMA DREAM WORLD – PLEASE COME TO ME Cross-cultural, cosmic, underworld ritual drone. PATRICK SHIROISHI – FORGETTING IS VIOLENT Minimal ambient jazz against the imperial program of cultural erasure. SEE MORE: QUEENCITYSOUNDS.ORG WET LEG – MOISTURIZER Bold, ferocious, sensuous, clever anthems of living with an unapologetically passionate nature and a refreshingly untamed sense of self. SEXTILE – YES, PLEASE. Further push into techno-punk bass music. THE STARGAZER LILIES – LOVE PEDALS Psychedelic shoegaze with heavy Julee Cruise vibes. STŪRĪ ZĒVELE – ARLABUNAKTI Strikingly original indie/dream/art/chamber pop from Latvia. SWANS – BIRTHING A profound reflection on one’s own cycle of becoming and transformation until reuniting with the infinite energy of the universe. THE WHIMBRELS – S/T Paradoxically transporting, wiry, shimmery, maximalist art punk prog noise rock for fans of Mission of Burma. THEY ARE GUTTING A BODY OF WATER – LOTTO The perfect balance of caustic, grungy, metallic, ethereal, beat-driven, post-shoegaze, spoken word jangle punk. VIAGRA BOYS – VIAGR ABOYS Once again an inspired set of irreverently surreal culture jamming commentary presented as mutant post-garage punk art hooliganism. WEDNESDAY – BLEEDS Effortlessly witty, literary, countrified emogaze snapshots of regular American life through the lens of the Southern experience.
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