Lars Gotrich

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Sun's Signature, 'Golden Air'

Lars Gotrich

Cocteau Twins' Elizabeth Fraser collaborates with Massive Attack's Damon Reece. As Sun's Signature, they unlock a psychedelic aurora.
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OHYUNG, 'yes my weeping frame!'

Lars Gotrich

OHYUNG is better known as a producer of hyperactive hip-hop and pop music, but on a new double cassette plays with shapes of tender ambient sound.
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Ted Leo, 'The Clearing of the Land'

Lars Gotrich

Ted Leo wrote the song for a new compilation benefiting a Ukraine non-profit organization.
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Richard Thompson, 'Treadwell No More'

Lars Gotrich

The track from the Music from Grizzly Man reissue is an opportunity to hear Thompson's spindly, tremolo shudder gaze into the gaping maw with equal parts fear and wonder.
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Sonic Youth, 'Machine'

Lars Gotrich

Archival outtakes hit different when we're talking Sonic Youth.
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Wormrot, 'Behind Closed Doors'

Lars Gotrich

The Singaporean grindcore trio has released their first single in six years.
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Now, Now, 'But I Do (Demo)'

Lars Gotrich

Listen to a demo from the 10th anniversary of Threads.
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Pušča, 'ça brûle'

Lars Gotrich

On Friday, after Russian military forces struck around Kyiv, the Lviv-based black-metal band Pušča — stylized as пуща in Cyrillic script — self-released the album war is hell.
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Mark Lanegan, Screaming Trees singer and voracious collaborator, dies at 57

Lars Gotrich

Mark Lanegan, who also made music with Queens of the Stone Age and The Gutter Twins, had a rumbling rasp in his voice that could convey the weight of the world.
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The Afterglows, 'Sea of Hate'

Lars Gotrich

You can almost hear a sly grin as The Afterglows' sea of hate swells with piano, hand claps and a reverb-heavy guitar solo, undercutting that misty-eyed sweetness with a slight sneer.