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Camera Stuns with Psychedelic Phantasmagoria in "Patrouille Pt. 1" (premiere)

For the first time in six years, Camera is a quintet. The newly-formed five-piece break free of krautrock's confines to deliver something substantially more avant-garde.

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John Grant's 'Love Is Magic' Shows Off Exquisite Ballads and Irksome Electro Excursions

The masterful bearded balladeer John Grant's fourth LP, Love Is Magic, rarely matches the soaring heights of his past triumphs.

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Garbage's 20 Years Paranoid Tour: Weirdos Take the Spotlight

Garbage brings a powerful female perspective 20 years on, in a show devoid of nostalgia and full of powerful messages.

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Do We Need Another Live Justice Album?

Justice are best consumed as a live act, but as a stand-alone piece, Woman Worldwide struggles to justify its own existence.

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"Romantic, Baroque, and Danceable": An Interview with Justice

With Woman Worldwide, the French electronic duo Justice recorded an unusual experience: a live album… recorded in a studio.

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Talker Finds Some Release in Powerful Video for "Collateral Damage" (premiere)

With the video for "Collateral Damage", Talker has produced that rare thing, a video that stands up as a profound piece of art on its own.

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Private Life (This Will Destroy You/Shmu Collaboration) Gives Taste of New LP With "Hesitation" (premiere)

Private Life's "Hesitation" features fast rhythms, strange electronic noises, and all the intensity you can pack into 1:58 seconds.

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Summer Like the Season Unveils Sunny, Dreamy Tune "Wakey" (premiere)

With "Wakey", Detroit-based electronic/art rock quartet Summer Like the Season has delivered a tune that perfectly fits their name.

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Reliving Fandemonium on the Road to Utopia With Todd Rundgren and Phantogram

How an appreciation for adventurous rock music — and a couple of close encounters — made one week in May a double shot of euphoria when two class acts lowered the boom in the rarefied air around the Mile High City.

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Editors Collaborate with Blanck Mass for 'Violence'

Editors experiment on Violence and produce a pop-focused set of tracks tinged in darkness and depth, but explore too far and overshadow the band's strengths and past successes.

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Django Django - "Surface to Air" (feat. Self Esteem) (Singles Going Steady)

Newcomers to Self Esteem will find a singer who can command in front of the camera as well as in the studio.

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Velveteen Pink Gets Trippy with New Video for "Black Heart" (premiere)

"Black Heart" bursts through the door with heavily processed vocals and an aggressive, percussion-led arrangement that culminates in a solo that sounds like the circuits on the P-Funk Mothership are overloading.

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Revisit '70s and '80s West German Electro Rock on 'Deutsche Elektronische Musik 3'

A well-curated collection of vintage German electro rock creates a vast soundscape on Deutsche Elektronische Musik 3.

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VOWWS Updates James Bond-Style Spy Music with "Esseff" (premiere)

New single from dark duo VOWWS conjures classic James Bond scores while avoiding all the stuff we've all heard before.

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Django Django Return in Joyful Style with the Hook-Filled 'Marble Skies'

Marble Skies retains the charming diced and spliced sound of Django Django's debut while delighting in the sheer joy of experimentation.

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AUTOBAHN Unleashes a Dark Engine with 'The Moral Crossing'

Leeds' AUTOBAHN release a bleak, moving, and dark engine of an album in The Moral Crossing.

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