Brave New Faves

PLGRMS, Crawling Back. Here's one that I keep coming back to that has a lovely enveloping feel that seems rather overlooked. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TUNBiKOaKZg

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Homecoming ptI: the Craving Sun from MiseryFields, the first single and opening track of the new album coming out next month, which is a concept album about an idiot doing awful things in search of Eden https://youtu.be/F6ya5tJBXKI?si=J7OTvptESD0NDsO4

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PLAYLUNCH - Keith - https://youtu.be/7PTvxw4fc9M - Creating a cocktail of late 90s and early 2000s Aussie nostalgia, and taking inspiration from retro dance music icons, Playlunch is pioneering a new flavour of bangers altogether: ‘Bogan Funk’.

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Streetlight Manifesto - Imagine This (2025 demo) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WM-XoOhDEY0 After 12 years Streetlight is finally releasing a new album this fall. They were supposed to release it in spring but it "wasn't ready". They dropped a 3 song demo as an apology. This one is my favorite.

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Cosmic Joke - Forced Perspective | From an EP that came out this June. Hardcore punk that gives a shit about melody | https://bbbrecords.bandcamp.com/track/forced-perspective

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The Flashbulb - Fox Mountain - https://theflashbulb.bandcamp.com/track/fox-mountain - dogstep

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https://theweirdsisters.bandcamp.com/track/mystery-trips-in-the-night | Mystery Trips In The Night - The Weird Sisters | This may have come out last year, but judging by the play count, this band, song, and album don't get the love they deserve. The best way I can describe the album this comes from is "middling electronica/dance band have identity crisis, discover they can play guitar, and write one of the best psychadelic punk tracks of the year." I come back just for the back half alone.

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Jessica Moss - until all are free|https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YT-cA7OQyGI|A new single from Jessica Moss (of Silver Mount Zion, Black Ox Orkestar and a bunch of excellent solo albums fame). It's her typically minimalist looping-pedal style building up layers and harmonics over time, but this time focusing on her voice rather than violin, with minimal accompaniment.

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Murderer, by Per Ink | https://apink.bandcamp.com/track/murderer-2 | a K-Pop inflected trans anthem from a Boston-area artist's July 2025 EP. Not well known yet, but it goes hard.

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Car Alarm - Too Many Zooz, https://youtu.be/xV7nHX2RLjQ?si=Yxs-fIWJhGbBUDXv, as discussed (I think last week) this is a really fun song that showcases this brass house band from NYC that started as buskers (and still busk)

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[2025] The Belair Lip Bombs - Hey You - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KOqJfu-QS6k - Only 2 weeks old, the first single from an upcoming album from my fave band of 2024. From Melbourne, fun instrumentation and the singer has a great voice.

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Drown by EBEN - https://youtu.be/TG0hau16dBw?si=31q-8hndWwRiSxSX - It’s euphoric EDM that just hits the vibes just right to get you to feel.

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keiyaA - stupid prizes https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ksv0TOTncok really chill singing that doesn't sound like anything I've heard before, backed by an ethereal chorus and minimal instrumentation. 10 days old

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Snail's House - メテオガール (Meteor Girl) https://0101.bandcamp.com/track/--55 Snail's House released Alien Pop V back in March, and the album kicked off with this high-energy track that makes me want to bounce out of my seat whenever I hear it.

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Sabrina Carpenter - Tears | https://youtu.be/V9vuCByb6js | New Sabrina album dropped yesterday. I'm upper-medium on it as a whole, but I love a subtheme of "straight men have the bar set on the floor and still manage to trip over it" in her signature clever, thirsty style.

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Midlake - The Ghouls [4:00]. One of my fave bands is releasing a new album this year! Here's the song being used to tease it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ph_nvka7QI8

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Panopticon - This Mortal Coil's Rusted - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NkRSmY6ttoI - "The press release references Townes Van Zandt," raves The Quietus.

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Durry - idk I just work here - https://durrymusic.bandcamp.com/track/idk-i-just-work-here This was a random YouTube algorithm rec from a couple months ago and it was compelling enough to make me get the band's entire discography.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HetqnVVPvSA | For The Ride - Roan Zen Martin | a really solid blues/jazz track that came out of my recommendations. When I looked the band up after hearing it for the first time, I was surprised to learn they're a solo act. The song doesn't feel like it, sounding for all the world like an ensemble piece. It also happens to be a solid jam.

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Spellling "Portrait Of My Heart" || The feeling of "I don't belong here..." is kind of evergreen with me. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VlUpWPRgaOI&list=OLAK5uy_l_obQlsMM0BAXp6fC0bdFYFxghKBu9oIE

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Noisia & Former “Pleasure Model (ring noord 150 mix)” https://youtu.be/_mK8hQuEiTE?si=uN-TnN8vDvguPMka I love when artists take a new spin on their own work. Noisia (a Dutch trio) and Former released the original D&B track in 2017. Nik (ex Noisia) and Former have a new project called ring noord that have put a techy and trippy house version together. Just released this week.

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https://erikluebs.bandcamp.com/track/coming-up-for-air slow build up techno banger

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Ty Segall - Possession - https://youtu.be/UbDqOCki0Sk?si=glVndEi1r3LkH-_f - I don't know how he does it, but he keeps churning out so much good guitar rock. Super great melodic hook on this that lands me like a massive tuna.

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Fallen Star by Halestorm https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CtIJDf-wufQ First track off the new album. Most of the album is a bit mellow, but this one opens pretty hard.

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Question by Nada Surf https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FGnIFTJOTqU I'd been told, repeatedly, that The Moody Blues and Alternative or Punk Rock did not and could not ever coexist. Allow me to present evidence to the contrary.

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Lundi bleu · pâle regard - 4:01 - https://youtu.be/AY_u5RBfkd8?si=dTftYFgDBnF_-zes How bout a modern french band remake of Blue Monday that goes hard

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Flying by Sam's Tunes: A light and joyful pop-ish story about leaving home from this young group in the Netherlands. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EZ5F1CveU2Y

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"BBQ All-Dressed" by Elle Barbara || https://ellebarbarasblackspace.bandcamp.com/track/bbq-all-dressed || It's catchy. It's avant-garde. It's from Montreal. I can't do a better job of describing it than that.

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