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Retro Kid - Let It Out
Retro Kid's Let It Out hit so perfectly on a late empty drive it felt rigged. Future bass with real feeling, which is rarer than it sounds.Read more . . . →Subscribe →Weekly digestOne email per week with the tracks worth your time. No spam, no Coldplay. -
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Bicep and Nostalgia as a Weapon: Why 'Glue' Still Wrecks You
Bicep, the Belfast duo behind 'Glue,' use nostalgia as a weapon. Why their rave-melancholy wrecks you, and where to start with their best tracks.Read more . . . →Subscribe →Weekly digestSundays. One email. Zero ballads from white guys in beanies. -
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BOP & Degs - Island On My Own (ft. Gabriella Bongo)
BOP and Degs show the songwriter side on Island On My Own, built around voices with Gabriella Bongo. Liquid DnB with actual feeling in it.Read more . . . →Subscribe →Weekly digestWhat you missed this week, minus the corporate emo. -
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Relief Package
Read more . . . →He practiced this in the mirror. The paper clip is from his own desk. Capitol dome in the background, gold bars stacked on a cart, and a paper clip between the politician’s thumb and forefinger. He’s handing it to a man whose coat has seen better decades. The cart does not enter the conversation; it never does. This is the whole stimulus bill in one painting: the money is visible, the money is countable, and the money is going the other direction. The paper clip is the line item with your name on it, and it was bent before he...
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Scorz - Stay Close
Scorz was the first Brazilian artist Armada signed exclusively, and Stay Close shows why they bothered. Progressive trance with actual lift.Read more . . . →Get the tee →Support the blogMade for people who left the room during Yellow. -
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BOP & Logistics - Miles and Miles
BOP and Logistics chop the amen break with a looseness that tells you right away they mean it. Five minutes of rolling DnB and not one boring second.Read more . . . →Get the tee →Support the blogIf you wear this and someone hugs you, that's a real friend. -
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Tape B - Think About It
I put on Tape B to test headphones and forgot the headphones in thirty seconds. Think About It is dubstep with a grip that doesn't let go.Read more . . . →Get the tee →Support the blogLooks like Helvetica. Sounds like a closing argument. -
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A Very Inexpensive Price
Read more . . . →He started a war with Iran, gas hit $4.36 a gallon, diesel cracked a record at six bucks, and he called it “a very inexpensive price to pay.” Then he flew to his golf club in Ireland and told Zelensky to stop hitting Russian refineries because it was making his numbers worse. Not the Strait of Hormuz he closed. Not seven months of bombing. The diesel shortage is Ukraine’s fault, apparently. Three weeks from midterms and the man is panic-shopping for oil. Begged Putin for diesel on a call he described as “wonderful.” Promised not to bomb Iran again until...
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Borgeous - Cut Me Open
Borgeous gives you a white-noise riser you could set a stopwatch to. Cut Me Open announces every move before it lands, and somehow the drop still works.Read more . . . →Get the tee →Support the blogWhat if your laundry was also a personality? -
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DPRTNDRP - Backfire
DPRTNDRP runs Backfire on one rude, rubbery, almost cartoonish bass sound. Made me laugh when the drop landed, which is the best outcome for riddim.Read more . . . →Get the tee →Support the blogShips in 3–5 days. The outrage ships immediately.
