Kaelen's Staff Picks

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  Caroline Polachek and Weyes Blood Capture Something Magical on "Butterfly Net"

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  PUBLISHED Feb 7, 2024

  The duo's "Butterfly Net" sounds suspended in air, sloughing off the original’s vintage weight for something more timeless...

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  Waxahatchee and MJ Lenderman Come to Their Senses on "Right Back to It"

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  PUBLISHED Jan 9, 2024

  Sometimes your body tells you to pull away. Sometimes, after years of closeness and stability, comfort starts to feel like constriction. Us...

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  gglum Revels in Debauchery and Danger on "Easy Fun"

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  PUBLISHED Nov 23, 2023

  PJ Harvey's To Bring You My Love is a career-defining high watermark in a career full of them, but it didn't exactly leave a long sonic sha...

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  Kue Varo and the Only Hopes Dodge the Expected on 'Cowboy Witchcraft'

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  PUBLISHED Nov 16, 2023

  A name like Cowboy Witchcraft conjures images of gothic country rock — gauzy gowns and black ten gallon hats, tumbleweeds rolling through t...

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  Kirsten Ludwig Plates Her Songs in Armour on 'Sunbeam'

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  PUBLISHED Nov 15, 2023

  Kirsten Ludwig makes songs that feel small and intimate, but rather than let them drift by in gauzy fabrics and gentle half-light, she plat...

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  Truth Club Push Through the Shadows on 'Running from the Chase'

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  PUBLISHED Oct 30, 2023

  North Carolina continues its indie rock dominance with Running from the Chase, Truth Club's deeply affecting sophomore rebirth. There's som...

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  Lost Girls Find Pop Melodies in the Mire on 'Selvutsletter'

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  PUBLISHED Oct 23, 2023

  Where 2018's Drive EP and 2021's full-length debut Menneskekollektivet were defined by their unruly, serpentine excursions into Jenny Hval'...

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  Mannequin Pussy Are Crushed by a Crush on "I Don't Know You"

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  PUBLISHED Oct 17, 2023

  Back in August, Mannequin Pussy shared the bloodthirsty banger "I Got Heaven," an absolute ripper offset by an ascendant '90s pop chorus. T...