jack petrone - pavement

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Plainly and PainfullyFollow “5/5 golden merles jack petrone’s track “pavement” does a lot with deceptively a little. The two chords pendular migration of…” on Jun 1st →

Cosme - ♀/♂

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Plainly and PainfullyFollow “5/5 golden merles More Groschi flagged digi drum gruel, Cosme’s “/” has the right balance of grime and pop. Mexico-based…” on Apr 26th →

Goon - Death Spells

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Plainly and PainfullyFollow “5/5 golden merles With “Death Spells,” Kenny Becker and Goon have again (and again) produced some of the most engaging…” on Mar 5th →

Shrapnel - Catch You Out

Plainly and PainfullyFollow “5/5 golden merles New external stimuli, Shrapnel’s “Catch You Out” is the sort of opener that lets you know you…” on Feb 25th →

EEL MEN - Exeter Exit

Plainly and PainfullyFollow “5/5 golden merles Great, calloused post-punk-pop from London’s Eel Men, “Exeter Exit” also has enough hooks to easily impale the…” on Feb 12th →

good flying birds - wallace

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Plainly and PainfullyFollow “5/5 golden merles Indianapolis-based indie garage-poppers Good Flying Birds‘ have released the newly compiled talulah’s tape (21-24). Some sweet and…” on Jan 5th →

variety - Plover

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Plainly and PainfullyFollow “5/5 golden merles Variety’s “Plover” is Texan avantpop rock composed of compelling narrative subversion, sticky melody and tone. The hook…” on Sep 26th, 2024 →

Casual Technicians - Dark Matter Falling

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Plainly and PainfullyFollow “5/5 golden merles America’s heart is effectively vestigial, the body running on delusion alone. But every now and again it…” on Sep 20th, 2024 →

BLOUS3 - Goo Goo

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Plainly and PainfullyFollow “5/5 golden merles “Goo Goo” is Sacramento-based noise punk with cutting phrasing and instrumental hooks concerning the crimes of Johnson…” on Aug 7th, 2024 →

Alas de Liona - Violet

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Plainly and PainfullyFollow “5/5 golden merles Art more than anything I know allows for the contorting of bad fate to good. A negative…” on Jul 29th, 2024 →

Merce Lemon - Backyard Lover

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Plainly and PainfullyFollow “5/5 golden merles Sometimes the magic trick isn’t a slight of hand. Though often the case, it isn’t always derived…” on Jul 27th, 2024 →

Busted Head Racket - Poor no more

Plainly and PainfullyFollow “5/5 golden merles Garage Synth / Egg Punk. Newcastle, Australia. I will never in my life make something that sounds…” on Jul 11th, 2024 →

O.R.F. - wie schön

Plainly and PainfullyFollow “5/5 golden merles What can be learned from this? Its direct and graceful descent. Its puncture and pulse. The relaxed…” on May 22nd, 2024 →

Little Oil - Hey Judas

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Plainly and PainfullyFollow “5/5 golden merles Coming 2nd among Twelve Songs, Little Oil’s “Hey Judas” is a psych-folk tune composed of deftly piercing…” on Mar 29th, 2024 →

Valentina & los Bindis - Basta!

Plainly and PainfullyFollow “5/5 golden merles New compilation from Argentina in the wake of the December inauguration of the libertarian hatchetman and fascist…” on Mar 7th, 2024 →

Balaclava - Swimming Up Up Up

Plainly and PainfullyFollow “5/5 golden merles The Palestine Solidarity Compilation is one of the most stacked comps of the era and for the…” on Jan 31st, 2024 →

Sandy Pylos - La Modelo de Mis Fantasias

Plainly and PainfullyFollow “5/5 golden merles Sandy Pylos is the psych/power pop project of Portland-based Paraguayan multi-instrumentalist Ana Belén. It is bedroom synthpop…” on Nov 20th, 2023 →

Gob Psychic - Harnessed Energy

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Plainly and PainfullyFollow “5/5 golden merles In praise of unpolished polemics: there is a reasonable case to be made that half-articulated rage is…” on Nov 7th, 2023 →

The Uptights - Jasper

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Plainly and PainfullyFollow “5/5 golden merles Oslo’s The Uptights have created in “Jasper” a multifaceted fuck-you of a tune, some real fun experimental…” on Sep 14th, 2023 →