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April 30

Barbed Double
Click Countryside Loaf
Unlike
labelmates Black Devil Disco Club, Barbed kicks out
dark, experimental free jazz. Lush pads melt into
skittery drums and horns that make you want to jive and
then crawl under a rock. Double Click Countryside is
creepy, pretty, and danceable all at once.
Nice.

The National
Boxer Beggars

There’s no surprise that Peter Katis (Interpol)
produced Boxer, because this long-player
summons the spirit of really dark Interpol B-sides. That
said, it’s still an awesome record. These five New
Yorkers pump out melancholy jams that will make a few
Midwestern 20-somethings have the bedroom retrospective
thinking session of a lifetime.

Attractive and Popular
Money Equals Magic Gold Standard
Labs
Comparable to GSL labelhead Sonny Kay’s
past endeavors (Angel Hair, The VSS), Attractive and
Popular makes post-punk of the spazziest and synthiest
variety. These newcomers please the punks with their
potent California vibes.

Dub Trio Cool Out and Coexist
ROIR
Dub Trio
are one of those bands that we can't help but love. Any
dudes who mash up noise-rock, dub, and punk (and do it
well) are OK in our book. Cool Out and Coexist
was recorded live at Brooklyn’s Union Pool and this shit
is heavy, deep, and ready for bass
deployment.

Mochipet Girls
Love Breakcore Daly City

Breakcore is a pretty easy genre to map out, but
Mochipet has completely broken the mold. With
contributions from Otto Von Shirach, Twink, and Aaron
Spectre, Girls Love
Breakcore may make any dreadlocked hardcore
enthusiast who is stuck in the ’90s ready to move into
the future.

Maps We Can Create Mute
Any frequenter
of our top ten knows that most new Mute releases get our
full backing, and Maps is no exception. James Chapman
knows the way we like our space rock–atmospheric and
consumed with swelling guitars. The folks in Spacemen 3
will surely have to get back together after they hear
this bad boy.

American Catastrophe
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Broken Bone Choir Oxblood

While we don’t usually cover gothic Americana we’re
making an exception for American Catastrophe. Part Sol
Invictus, part 16 Horsepower, this Kansas City quartet
has mastered dark-folk songwriting–plus the album comes
sealed with red wax and a black feather.
Spooky.

Turzi A Kemado
Turzi’s new record is so
fresh, it’s hella fresh. Like Alan Vega jamming with
Motorhead, Turzi spits freak-prog fire. With Lots of
whispered vocals, trippy synth stabs, and driving drums,
A will make a
damn fine soundtrack for a homicidal maniac’s rampage,
or some dude on the way to rage central.

Maserati Inventions For the New
Season Temporary
Residence
It’s been four years since Maserati’s
released anything, and we couldn’t be more pumped on its
new instrumental crop. If Sonic Youth were making an
amazingly-produced Kraut-rock album, they’d turn to this
quartet for advice. Listen to this loud and get blown to
bits.

Dog Day Night Group Tomlab
Tomlab puts
out some pretty weird releases (Hey willpower, Khan),
but Dog Day makes pop the way its meant to be
made–driving, straightforward, and memorable. Fans of
any contemporary Sub Pop band will shit themselves.
This, we promise.

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