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THR!!!ER

Searching for a pulse after the party's over.

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Carolina

Buzzy Brooklynites hold steady on follow-up EP

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Sleeper

Former supermodel's shimmer-and-fuzz debut.

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You Have Already Gone To The Other World

A gateway into Balkan music for the curious

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180

British buzz band avoids embarrassment

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You'll Never Walk Alone

Psych-pop trio has a noisy blast in the studio

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Can't Get No

Lo-fi evocation of vintage garage-era stomp

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Believe You Me

Julianna Barwick and Helado Negro make beautiful music together

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Bored Nothing

Australian revisits the fuzzy-jangle part of the '90s

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Better

Just as it says: better

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Because I Am Always Talking

Downcast lyrics in butterfly-like sonic settings

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Bones In Motion

House music for people who hate house music

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Afraid of Heights

Nathan Williams cleans up surprisingly well

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Ripely Pine

Solid folk-psych debut from Brooklyn-based singer-songwriter

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White Mountain

Landscape-driven ambient atmospheres

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Black Sun

Catchy, '80s-influenced dance-pop debut

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Woman

Enigmatic electronic duo dips a toe in the mainstream

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Big Inner

2012 blue-eyed soul debut gets a big-league reissue

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Wondrous Bughouse

Outsider neo-psychedelia with unexpected strength

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Birthmarks

As good as straightforward modern pop-rock gets

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Wolf's Law

A disappointing sophomore slump.

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Arise Conglomerate

An alternate-universe Captain Beefheart and the Magic Band

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The Woolen Men

Authentically lo-fi recreation of the '80s post-punk underground

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Alone Aboard The Ark

Witty lyrics set to lavish, folky chamber-pop tunes

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World Music

It shouldn't work, but it does

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You're Nothing

Danish kids reinvestigate hardcore

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Saal

A dark but appealing hip-hop reverie

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Melody's Echo Chamber

More than a Tame Impala side project

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Crow44

An unlikely story, but a sublime electro-soft-pop album

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The Astral Body Electric

Dude...whoa...

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Alphawaves

Post-rock solo project becomes questing neo-psychedelic duo.

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Anxiety

Electronic R&B where Freud meets Prince

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Oak Island

Philadelphia one-man-band explores '70s AM pop tropes

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mbv

Shockingly, worth the 22-year wait

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The House At Sea

Indie side project becomes a proper band

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Eight

Dreamy L.A. vets' lushest, sharper LP yet.

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Crummy Desert Sound

2013's best album of 1966

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Centralia

Brooklyn duo's subtle sonic textures

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Bend Beyond

Shorter, poppier, but still unmistakably Woods

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American Twilight

Simon Bonney returns in triumphant style

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A Wonder Working Stone

A joyous modern take on vintage U.K. folk-rock

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Year of the Snake

Cerebral but accessible modern jazz trio

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Beams

Indie-techno fusion ratchets up the tension

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Badwater

Slow-motion dream pop with a desert-moonlight vibe

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Fade

Hoboken's finest at the top of their game

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Elements of Light

German producer hears bells...lots of bells

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Anything In Return

Chaz Bundick's increasingly sharp '80s-style dance pop

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Berberian Sound Studio

Unsettling soundtrack cues from the late Trish Keenan

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Yesterday Was Lived And Lost

Hot Chip spinoff arguably outshines the mother band

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Yours Truly, Cellophane Nose

A sparkling, inventive debut.

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Winterval

Intelligent, seductive beats and chilly synth textures.

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Woven Tide

Subtle, beautiful electro-acoustic drones.

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