Slowcore favorites, Duster, have announced the release of a fulfilling, career-spanning box (4xLP or 3xCD) which compiles both their studio albums, Stratosphere and Contemporary Movement, their EP, 1975, a series of singles and demos, together with some previously unreleased material.

One of the unpublished songs is called What You’re Doing To Me and it was just unveiled, together with a well done minute-long teaser clip for the boxset.

Capsule Losing Content arrives March 22nd, 2019 via Numero Group, while the band has started playing live and testing out new songs again, for the first time since their disbandment.








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Dreaming in the Dark, the new album by dreampop artist, Tamaryn, and her first in four years, is ready and scheduled to come out March 22nd, 2019 via DERO Arcade.

Another collaboration with producer and visual artist, Jorge Elbrecht, Dreaming in the Dark finds Tamaryn taking a very much welcome atmospheric approach, one that leans closer to the moody goth pop sound of 4AD's admirable early years, and respectfully channels iconic and eccentric dreampop artists, like Kate Bush and Cocteau Twins.

Dark, rough and emotional, Fits Of Rage is the first piece which introduces us to the coming album which already has the air of one the artist's strongest releases.









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Following last month's Bengala, Italian band, Be Forest, responsible for some of the first class post punk-tinged, underground shoegaze of the last few years, have released another single off their coming album, Knocturne, due out February 8th, 2019 via We Were Never Being Boring Collective.

A concise epic, Gemini, is a raw and direct dark atmospheric rocker, instrumentally faultless, delivered with class, charming pensiveness and elegance, and overall enticing from the first second.

In the band's own desription: "Gemini encapsulates a palpable duality; while the guitars warmly surf triplets' sound waves, the drums, adamant and controlled, interpose a seemingly 'techno-music' intention. The vocals are enticing while invoking a night that extends into the day. It's a song that wants to wear a dichotomy but never becomes rivalry and rather coexists in its double nature. It's a bivalence that transforms into couple."

After two singles released, it's becoming more evident that Knocturne is going to be a standout LP for the new year's first months, and that the long wait was worth the while.




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Metaprogramação will be the third full length release from Brazilian purveyors of mind-bending, weighty and experimental noise rock, DEAFKIDS, the first specimen off which, Mente Bicameral, shows a fresh direction for the band, one that is oriented toward a more electronic and even noisier approach, and sounds more exciting and groundbreaking than ever.

Confident and bold, the band sounds once again fervent and about to deliver a work of art that embodies a poignant and unique psychedelic experience which stimulates and provokes the listener's mind.

The band has a long and interesting statement about their forthcoming LP: "Deceived by perceiving our so-called individuality as a form of freedom, we are programmed to live and continue living as a fragmented and binary model of nature. Experimental numbers in a worldwide political power-game where human lives and its complexities, connections, necessities and environments are lowered in terms manipulated by algorithms, mind control and brutal force upon our conditions, our rights and our true will. Shaping, overwhelming and fragmenting our tunnels of perception to the point where the excess of information becomes diffused and the whole contained within each being is more and more dispersed, confused and disconnected. Reflecting an insane image of ones identification with an artificial reality - where in some bizarre way, all these schizophrenic, corrupted and truculent theatres of domination and submission that appears all over human relations seems to make some sense - and of non-identification with what would be our inner reality. The telepathic level behind the veils where boundaries and divisions between us and the plane of consciousness, between you and the other don't really exist. A level of reality where we might have the power to start learning how to reprogram ourselves by our own tools, being able to visit our internal hall of mirrors beyond space and time and deal with the negative roots of our condensed emotions and traumas through a new perspective of relation and control with our thoughts, paths and everything we're connected with. We must unite as one and resist against the violent symbols of oppression, including what's imprinted on our own self, that which must be sacrificed daily.

"Metaprogramação offers a vertiginous, sensory insight on these inner conflicts and aspects of the animal being.

"Do not allow yourself to be programmed."

Metaprogramação comes out March 2019 via the legendary Neurot Recordings.






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Tough to define and categorize, as the band's sounds mixes many styles, presenting passages of grunge, noise rock, hardcore, extreme metal and shoegaze, Boston, Massachusetts five-piece, Elizabeth Colour Wheel, will be releasing their anticipated first full length, Nocebo, on March 15th, 2019, via The Flenser.

Since their formation in 2014, Elizabeth Colour Wheel have earned accolades for their live presence, and have shared the stage with great acts, such as Have A Nice Life, Planning For Burial, True Widow and Cloakroom.

First single, 23, offers a first taste of the band's multifarious sound, their strong and confident delivery and good ear for production. For the latter responsible is Seth Manchester of Machines of Magnets (The Body, Street Sects).

Elizabeth Colour Wheel are Lane Shi (vocals), Emmett Palaima and Alice Jackson (guitars), Billy Cunningham (bass), and Connor Devito (drums).

Do not miss out on this by any means, and check out the US dates below.






ELIZABETH COLOUR WHEEL — ON TOUR:

03.16.19 Brooklyn, NY @ Bazar
03.17.19 Philadelphia, PA @ Kung Fu Necktie
03.18.19 Montclair, NJ @ Meat Locker
03.19.19 Falls Church, VA @ VFW 9278
03.20.19 Baltimore, MD @ Sidebar
03.21.19 Pittsburgh, PA @ Mr. Roboto Project
03.22.19 Boston,MA @ O'Brien's
03.23.19 Portland Maine @ Geno's
03.24.19 Rollinsford, NH @ Sue's
03.25.19 New Haven, CT @ Cafe Nine


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Originators of a wonderful blend of psychedelic rock, dreampop and shoegaze, Texan band, The Bright Light Social Hour will be releasing their third full length, Jude Vol. I, on February 1st, 2019 via Modern Outsider. The forthcoming album was recorded at Sunset Sound in Los Angeles, and produced by Chris Coady (Slowdive, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Beach House).

Jude Vol. I was an outlet for the band, having suffered the loss of Alex O’Brien, bass player/vocalist Jackie O’Brien’s brother, and their manager of four years, who suffered from severe and sudden Bipolar 1 Disorder.

"It was a terrible thing, but it was also the most beautiful thing I’ve ever experienced and probably will ever experience," Jackie says. "This was all happening as we started the record. Not all the songs are about Alex, but I think even the ones that aren’t all have a bittersweet mix of overwhelming beauty and terrible loss. The music deals with the ripples it caused in all of our lives, especially in our relationships, with an underlying theme of trying to wrap our heads around all of this."

Lie To Me (Große Lüge) is the first single off the album, a warm and memorable dreampop tune, typical of the band's colorfully wistful sound, and it comes with an aesthetically matching lyric clip, courtesy of the band's drummer, Joseph Mirasole.







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