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Mean Lady‘s latest offering, “Far Away”, is the kind of song you play when you need a few minutes on a tropical island. Not forgetting the flight there, it gives...

It’s been an interesting few months for Maryland lo-fi darlings Julia Brown. For the band who tried their best to shake the vestiges of past projects, things seem to moving a...

Nicholas Nicholas, a project by Chris Masullo of Phantom Posse, is a swoony electronic pop crooner that feels like a vaporware take on a John Hughes film. Comfort Falls is easy...

MJ MJ records use their Serious Sauce compilations as a vehicle to introduce talented beat producers to the world. Volume 3 is a sensuous split by Psymum and Damacha. Both producers pay...

Beowulf‘s take on chamber music is both familiar and subtly bold, a perfect combination for easy listens that hold their own upon the scrutiny of closer examination. Perhaps a pivotal...

The beloved M|O|D crew trap darling LiL TExAS (Sam Barry) is a wizard. Never have I heard a more cohesive display of so many tangential genres and pop ideas than with...

Her sight wandered along the limp thread, its two ends not visible. One end wound its way out the window, over the ledge of the 22nd floor of her building....

I first came across Leaks, 19-year-old Australian producer Thomas Guida, over a year ago. It was one of those instances where the right music hits you at the right time....

The latest single from Mexican Summer darlings No Joy, “Hare Tarot Lies”, first rattled my eardrums late last month at Austin Psych Fest. Playing to a semi-packed tent of glossy-eyed twenty-somethings,...

Since I first posted Samn Johnson‘s music on PORTALS, his canon has gradually evolved. Many mainstays of the young Ann Arborite’s classical-informed epics remain, whether they be a melding of electronic elements...

The mist of nostalgia can have you lost on a road that winds down a path of blissful nothingness or forgotten heartbreak. This is a path often traveled in dreamier...

Rising from the ashes of RatTail, Jasmyn Burke and Morgan Waters have put together a new experimental pop venture called Weaves. The Toronto-based duo is filling the void with some...

Kyle Reigle usually makes clouded dream-pop love under the extremely fitting moniker Cemeteries. Recently, the soon-to-be Chicago resident was heavily inspired by Memory Tapes‘ 2012 LP Grace/Confusion, and decided to conjure up a...

Over the past few years, there’s been a growing community built around netlabels in Japan. It’s had a significant impact on some of the outerlying music scenes around Tokyo. Most...