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Fox Apts. – “Stars of the 10-32”
Country: US
Genre: Indie Rock
Words From the Artist: A “10-32” is a common police dispatcher code for a drowning. The song is about two boys who drown in a river in the speaker’s childhood and who still visit his dreams decades later. –This was the first song the band wrote together, much of it long-distance, including leaving parts on one another’s voice mail. –We chose it to be first on the album because we thought it best introduced the sound of the album—alt rock with shades of roots and folk—as well as that “Omen” is an unabashedly maximalist album, full of elaborate, even extravagant composition, instrumentation, and structuring.
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Marcyline – “Carmen”
Country: US
Genre: Alt Rock
Words From the Artist: Treegiver opens with the grand and gritty “Carmen,” a noisy indie-rock track with an artfully-architected textural overlay. “Carmen” takes the listener on a journey to find a lost friend, and its lyrics are as captivating as a vintage suspense show. One choice passage is: Now we’ve found the spot not too far down the rock face/And a thousand year old lake spans the slate of stone tens of miles down/We yelled her name and all sorts of other things but it was quiet cold and late/And so we made a fire as the lake made waves.
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Bad Habits – “It Ain’t Love”
Country: Greece
Genre: Rock
Words From the Artist: A story of abuse and assault turned into a powerful Hard Rock anthem, “It Ain’t Love” is a shock to the genre’s stagnating concepts. From the AC/DC-like verses to the instantly memorable chorus, the track takes the listener on an agonizing journey through all the stages of the cycle of abuse, before achieving atonement in the final chorus after the heart-wrenching guitar solo. While “It Ain’t Love” is an excruciatingly heavy and overwhelming piece to perform, it’s our favorite song to this day despite the pain surrounding it.
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Tedworth – “Going Under”
Country: US
Genre: Alt Rock
Words From the Artist: “My song “Going Under” is about losing hope in being alive and losing hope in your passion. I thought music was gonna be the thing I do for the rest of my life when I first started it. But along the way I lost touch with the reasons why I started making music in the first place. This caused me to feel very depressed and have many suicidal thoughts. This song was a shining light in my life and gave me hope to keep going and push through.”
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Broom – “Runaway”
Country: US
Genre: Alt Rock
Words From the Artist: This song is part of Broom’s self-titled debut EP. All this young band wants to do is bring a full tilt rock show to every stage they play
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Graeme Jonez – “100 Days Deep”
Country: Canada
Genre: Folk Rock
Words From the Artist: “100 Days Deep” is the lead single off of Creatures & Criminals, the debut album from Indigenous singer-songwriter Graeme Jonez. Driven by Jonez’s storytelling, acoustic guitar and Indigenous perspective, 100 Days Deep depicts one of the album’s many dark stories brought to life over a vicious instrumental soundscape. Picture being 100 days deep in the thick of a zombie apocalypse. The ground is smouldering. A raven flies overhead. He’s been watching the whole thing unfold – or, more appropriately, unravel. Across a bloody highway he sees dying drifters, drag queens in despair, and wild dogs lurking in the shadows. The lyrical imagery illustrates a dark sense of unease and misery
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Savagery – “Void”
Country: Australia
Genre: Indie Rock
Words From the Artist: ‘Void comes from a place of desperately not wanting to be void. I’m not sure if it’s my age, or the world, but it seems increasingly difficult to shake off the numb and feel the buzz.’
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Animals On TV – “MTV 2095”
Country: US
Genre: Indie Rock
Words From the Artist: “As a band that frequently draws on music from the ’60s and into the early 2000’s, MTV 2095 was our first attempt to write a song that addresses the future. The song really started as a joke. We had MTV 2. Then we wrote MTV 3. The next logical step was to write MTV 2095.” :The song has fun with the fact that we only envision the future by using landmarks of the past, referencing Greek sirens, the archetypal journey of leaving home, the dated act of letter-writing, and referencing “digital Japan,” as a stand-in for an exotic future destination. The title itself is a reference to “Yours Truly 2095″, a 1981 (the year MTV started) song by Electric Light Orchestra, that attempts to do the same. Breaking away from our standard arrangement, we also incorporated auto-tune and synth into MTV 2095, which are new to us but have been staples for anyone trying to sound futuristic since before the internet was commonplace. Don’t worry, the humor is never lost on us.”
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Hard Stairs – “Bury Me”
Country: UK
Genre: Alt Rock
Words From the Artist: ‘Bury Me’ is the first single off the Third studio Album ‘Bigger Blues’ from Gloucestershire blues – Hard Stairs. taking its roots from the earliest blues and county, Bury me develops quickly from a mournful ballad to a call to live. “This song led the way when recording the new album and we hope it serves as reminder or introduction as the first steps towards Bigger Blues from Hard Stairs”.
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Nathan Connolly – “Fires” ft. Simon Neil
Country: Ireland
Genre: Alt Rock
Words From the Artist: The newly unveiled single ‘Fires’, featuring the instantly recognisable voice of Biffy Clyro’s Simon Neil, the duo’s new collaboration makes for uplifting listening. With its raw and powerful aesthetic matched by their incredibly harmonious dual vocals, this new endeavour kicks off his forthcoming collection with euphoric finesse Adding about ‘Fires’, which was also co-written with Simon Neil, “I have known Simon since back in my early days with Snow Patrol. The first show I remember playing together was a Zane Lowe MTV Gonzo show in Glasgow in 2003. Over the years we occasionally mentioned doing something together at some point. Finally, the opportunity came in the form of Fires. He is extraordinary and came at the song from somewhere I don’t think I would or could have.”
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