DOWNLOAD: A Place To Bury Strangers - You Are The One
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If the first look at A Place To Bury Strangers’ new album Worship (out June 26 on Dead Oceans) is any indication, the noise-pop masters have been spending a lot of time lurking around frigid meat lockers, on rickety night rollercoasters and indulging in other unwholesome activities. The slithering '90s-feeling “You Are The One” is anchored by a pop bassline, glassy-eyed vocals and screaming guitars that cry as though they're being shredded to death. The whole thing is quite moody and introverted and certainly meaningful. Though what that meaning is, we can't really deduce. Pain? Love? Self-hatred? Whatever it is, it sure sounds awesome.
DOWNLOAD: A Place To Bury Strangers - So Far Away (School of Seven Bells Remix)
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Electro-noise begets headbanging bliss when A Place To Bury Strangers meets School of Seven Bells in this refit of “So Far Away.” It sounds of late ‘90s vampire pop in the best way: metallic, glammy, grimy. Something to drink blood, be ghoulish and wear leather to. Much like the rest of Onwards To The Wall, which you can grab along with tour dates, right here.
DOWNLOAD: Crystal Castles - Suffocation (HEALTH Remix)
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We’re hyperventilating over HEALTH’s noisy refit of Crystal Castles’ “Suffocation.” It’s just so damn good. The electronic machinery coupled with the murky vocal strains of both acts makes the whole track feel like being submerged in a bubble bath of broken glass. Shards here and there reflect a rainbow of melodies, but the result is still full of exquisite pain. A nightmare teaser for what’s to come on Crystal Castles’ just-confirmed third album. Stay tuned; as soon as we have more when it arrives this summer, best believe we’ll be gifting more to you.
PREMIERE: The Voyeurist - Chase(R) + Visions of Trees and Kool Thing and Worship Remixes
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Only the rarest pop acts are equally adept at acrid, aerial sing-a-longs and excellent tapefuckery, and you can count London’s The Voyeurist among them. Below, it’s download city with the aforementioned single “Chase(R),” and a litany of remixes including those of Vision of Trees, Kool Thing and Worship. From swampish dub to slack-jawed ballads to all out rock hybridizers, there’s enough here to make your own personal EP of blurry subzero anthems.
STREAM: Mark McGuire & Charles Berlitz - MR
There's guitar dreamers, guitar shredders and guitar players. Rarely do all three fit into the same world, but Mark McGuire and Charles Berlitz go intergalactic yet stay a-rippin on this new one "MR" – a dedication to surfer Mark Richards. If you love those old Fripp & Eno albums, get on this.
DOWNLOAD: War - Brodermordet
War! Violence! Murdering a brother! All these themes come up in the foggy, industrial haze of "Brodermordet" – a preview of a new duo called War that includes Iceage frontman Elias Bender Rønnenfelt and Loke Rahbek from Sexdrome. It's like hearing a rave-turned-riot from down the street. The only question is whether to run into the chaos or run away.
DOWNLOAD: Black Dice - Pigs
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If you want to go weird, there is no band finer than Black Dice. It's been like that for a decade, and if the material on their new album Mr. Impossible is any indication, it'll be like that for another one. The first taste is the irresistible "Pigs." It's a meticulously-formed, vacuum-wrapped sludge of roadhouse blues, jittery dance music, punk snarl and sonic wackiness. No, they didn't go pop, but this is Black Dice cut with an exacto knife – so pointed, calculated and worked-over that it's experimental music given the proper time to marinate and become great.
DOWNLOAD: White Car - She The Bodiless + Now We Continue
Disembodied voices crushed to rhythmic pulses. Sound collaged violently into an airy nightmare. That's "She The Bodiless" by Chicago industrial project White Car. It's awesome, yet we're glad its intensity was chased with another preview track from the upcoming Everyday Grace LP (via Hippos In Tanks). "Now We Continue" has a ghoulish, danceable creep to it that's perfect for a cold stare and letting fog roll out the side of your mouth.
