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Laundromat Chicks | Want Some Air heardonthewire.wordpress.com/2025/07/18/l...
Laundromat Chicks | Want Some Air
Oh Vienna
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July 21, 2025 at 10:10 AM
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The Sick Man of Europe | Moderate Air Quality heardonthewire.wordpress.com/2025/07/16/t...
The Sick Man of Europe | Moderate Air Quality
Breathe out — breathe in
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July 21, 2025 at 10:09 AM
The Sick Man of Europe | Moderate Air Quality heardonthewire.wordpress.com/2025/07/16/t...
Strange Neighbours | Silk and Cyanide heardonthewire.wordpress.com/2025/06/24/s...
Strange Neighbours | Silk and Cyanide
The new LP is a mixed bag, silk and cyanide indeed. And for a bit of contrast…
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July 21, 2025 at 10:09 AM
Strange Neighbours | Silk and Cyanide heardonthewire.wordpress.com/2025/06/24/s...
Vivid Bloom | Under the Sound heardonthewire.wordpress.com/2025/06/13/v...
Vivid Bloom | Under the Sound
Blooming vivid sound. Sounds good…
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July 21, 2025 at 10:09 AM
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Allo Darlin’ | Tricky Questions heardonthewire.wordpress.com/2025/06/12/a...
Allo Darlin’ | Tricky Questions
Almost ten years since they split, leaving with the great records of the century, the magnificent darlin’s are back with an LP, Bright Nights, due next month.
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July 21, 2025 at 10:08 AM
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Teen Angst | Ask Me to Stay heardonthewire.wordpress.com/2025/05/29/t...
Teen Angst | Ask Me to Stay
Deep blue in colour, like a clear sky. From the Perth band’s six-track LP, Cerulean, featuring the previously posted I’m a Rot and this…
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July 21, 2025 at 10:08 AM
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Allo Darlin’ | Tricky Questions
Almost ten years since they split, leaving with the great records of the century, the magnificent darlin’s are back with an LP, Bright Nights, due next month.
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June 12, 2025 at 7:48 PM
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Teen Angst | Ask Me to Stay heardonthewire.wordpress.com/2025/05/29/t... #newmusic
Teen Angst | Ask Me to Stay
Deep blue in colour, like a clear sky. From the Perth band’s six-track LP, Cerulean, featuring the previously posted I’m a Rot and …
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May 29, 2025 at 3:50 PM
Teen Angst | Ask Me to Stay heardonthewire.wordpress.com/2025/05/29/t... #newmusic
Club 8 | Staying Alive heardonthewire.wordpress.com/2025/05/29/c...
Club 8 | Staying Alive
No, not that one. More like this (at the beginning, at least)…
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May 29, 2025 at 3:36 PM
Club 8 | Staying Alive heardonthewire.wordpress.com/2025/05/29/c...
Agent Blå | Shapes heardonthewire.wordpress.com/2025/05/22/a...
Agent Blå | Shapes
Largely inspired by the British use of herbicides and defoliants during the Malayan Emergency, killing rice was a military strategy from the very start of U.S. military involvement in Vietnam. [Wik…
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May 27, 2025 at 7:42 AM
Agent Blå | Shapes heardonthewire.wordpress.com/2025/05/22/a...
Say Sue Me | In This Mess heardonthewire.wordpress.com/2025/05/23/s...
Say Sue Me | In This Mess
South Korea’s trailblazing indie popsters are back with a five-track EP full of Seoul. In fact, why don’t we listen to the whole record…
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May 27, 2025 at 7:38 AM
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The Blue Herons | Turned to Stone heardonthewire.wordpress.com/2025/05/21/t...
The Blue Herons | Turned to Stone
Consistent excellence is what we expect and what we get from Andy Jossi’s ongoing partnership with Gretchen DeVault. Talking of stone, this is from Independent Country’s debut LP, TrailerParkLife……
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May 21, 2025 at 4:32 PM
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Slippers | Guess I Started a Band heardonthewire.wordpress.com/2025/05/20/s...
Slippers | Guess I Started a Band
Time to break it up?
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May 21, 2025 at 4:30 PM
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Equal Parts | There for a Reason heardonthewire.wordpress.com/2025/05/20/e...
Equal Parts | There for a Reason
Here for a reason… Good, for some reason…
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May 21, 2025 at 4:28 PM
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The Bats | Loline heardonthewire.wordpress.com/2025/05/20/t...
The Bats | Loline
Forty three years in the making.
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May 21, 2025 at 4:26 PM
The Bats | Loline heardonthewire.wordpress.com/2025/05/20/t...
Lurve | Every Dream/Every Night heardonthewire.wordpress.com/2025/05/20/l...
Lurve | Every Dream/Every Night
Tags : “alternative electronic rock alternative dream pop electronic indie lofi post punk rock shoegaze” — maybe all those things, but there’s an unexpected energy about this. New Order vibes to th…
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May 21, 2025 at 4:25 PM
Lurve | Every Dream/Every Night heardonthewire.wordpress.com/2025/05/20/l...
Castlebeat | With You heardonthewire.wordpress.com/2025/04/11/c...
Castlebeat | With You
Ten years in the making — Castlebeat’s best record to date… …and almost the best ever by a band with “castle” in the name…
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April 15, 2025 at 7:03 PM
Castlebeat | With You heardonthewire.wordpress.com/2025/04/11/c...
Slow Danse With The Dead | I Prefer to be Alone heardonthewire.wordpress.com/2025/04/10/s...
Slow Danse With The Dead | I Prefer to be Alone
I’m not sure you have much choice. From Eternal Mourning, a 20-track LP — but I’m not sure anyone needs that much goth, unless…
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April 15, 2025 at 7:02 PM
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Sally Shapiro | The Other Days
The return of the Swedish queen of Italo Disco. But the real treat comes next…
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April 15, 2025 at 7:01 PM
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Sally Shapiro | The Other Days heardonthewire.wordpress.com/2025/04/09/s...
Sally Shapiro | The Other Days
The return of the Swedish queen of Italo Disco. But the real treat comes next…
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April 9, 2025 at 8:33 PM
Sally Shapiro | The Other Days heardonthewire.wordpress.com/2025/04/09/s...
Wet Leg | Catch these Fists heardonthewire.wordpress.com/2025/04/09/w...
Wet Leg | Catch these Fists
If it works, don’t break it
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April 9, 2025 at 8:30 PM
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Strange Neighbours | Hate Me Less
Second single of the year from the New Yorkers and we love it more. Seven years since this should have claimed every “Best Single…” plaudit, thought the less said about the video the better……
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March 27, 2025 at 8:51 PM
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The Perfect English Weather | Caroline of Brunswick Square heardonthewire.wordpress.com/2025/03/27/t...
The Perfect English Weather | Caroline of Brunswick Square
The daughter of Charles William Ferdinand, Duke of Brunswick, and Princess Augusta of Great Britain, Caroline was engaged in 1794 to her first cousin George, Prince of Wales, the future King George…
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March 27, 2025 at 8:49 PM
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Teen Angst | I’m Rot heardonthewire.wordpress.com/2025/03/17/t...
Teen Angst | I’m Rot
They’re from Perth, Australis, and far from rot(ten). Teen angst…
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March 17, 2025 at 9:08 PM
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Attic Ocean | Lilies and Sea heardonthewire.wordpress.com/2025/03/17/a...
Attic Ocean | Lilies and Sea
From Düsselfdorf, a five-piece brings you Retriever, a five-track EP. And from 2023…
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March 17, 2025 at 8:47 PM
Attic Ocean | Lilies and Sea heardonthewire.wordpress.com/2025/03/17/a...