South London indie-rock duo playlounge (all-lowercase, yes) is teaming up with another promising UK two-piece,
playlounge – “handclap cinema” (Stereogum Premiere)
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UK indie rock trio Mazes have announced a third album, Wooden Aquarium, for which they enlisted the services of Parquet Courts producer Jonathan Schenke. Here’s the first single from that collection, a fun song supported by chugging guitar riffs, references to winning quiz teams, and a backwards guitar solo. Listen below.
Mazes – “Astigmatism”
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In baseball, the five-tool player is kind of a bullshit concept, but it connotes a particular beauty. The five-tool player hits for power, hits for average, throws well, fields well, and roams the basepaths like a guerilla warrior; when the term “five-tool” is deployed, it implicitly presents these skills as equally weighted. As the greatest solo pop artist in American history, Prince boasts an unprecedented skill set. He writes, arranges, sings, plays, dances, and performs, all like a motherfucker. He busts taboos, flashes unstoppable ambition, blends genres together like paint. Ballads and rave-ups, autobiography and fantasy, sexual abandon and divine devotion. He’s Willie Mays and Ken Griffey, Jr. and Rickey Henderson and Bo Jackson. He’s Paul McCartney with the funk, Stevie Wonder with the freakiness, Joni Mitchell with the proper respect.
Prince Albums From Worst To Best
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The Montreal musicians that congregate around Arbutus Records often have an early morning eeriness to them. That’s usually translated through an electronic sound found most notably on Doldrums’ Lesser Evil and Grimes’ Visions and more recently on the incredible single “
TOPS – “Sleeptalker” (Stereogum Premiere)
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