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  Featured Album: Citizens of Boomtown
  Release Date: Mar 13, 2020

  Citizens of Boomtown

  During their original ten-year run, Irish new wave combo the Boomtown Rats drove a bevy of hit singles across the U.K. pop charts, painting seedy pictures of the urban underbelly with a blend of snarling punk energy and pop sophistication on songs like "Rat Trap" and "Up All Night." They even made some noise across the pond with the anthemic "I Don't Like Mondays." As the '80s wore on, however, their star began to fade as enigmatic frontman, Bob Geldof,...

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  Featured Album: Live
  Release Date: Mar 13, 2020

  Live

  Recorded during the end of 2015 at a couple different Swedish concerts, Dungen's first live album is a ripping example of their prowess both as individual musicians and as a cohesive unit. The record is totally instrumental and it flows from short song fragments to extended expansive pieces in dynamic waves of psychedelic sound. The guitars as played mainly by Reine Fiske (mainly) and bandleader Gustav Ejstes are massive when they are cranked up,...

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  Featured Album: The Common Task
  Release Date: Mar 13, 2020

  The Common Task

  Baltimore quartet Horse Lords play a complex, polyrhythmic form of music that incorporates just intonation, algorithmic composition, and microtonal harmonies. Instead of being a purely academic exercise, however, the group apply these techniques to sprawling, groove-heavy instrumental rock songs, equally influenced by Krautrock and Saharan desert blues as well as composers like Terry Riley and James Tenney. The Common Task is their fourth studio album,...

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  Featured Album: Every Bad
  Release Date: Mar 13, 2020

  Every Bad

  "Thank you for making me happy", repeats Porridge Radio's Dana Margolin on 'Every Bad' opener 'Born Confused', a sentiment which unsettlingly spirals from its initial whimsical delivery into a pained, otherworldly caterwaul. It sets the tone for a record that never really presents itself as either fully happy or miserable, treading the dense grey area that floats between the two. Dana's vocal snarls jar against the startling music, itself conjuring...

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