Fuzz-drenched and jangle-soaked: No Museums juxtaposes whirring, grinding layers with the most jangly of melodic underlays, while La Mano de Cervantes delivers ten unpretentious power pop slices drawing from early R.E.M. and The Wedding Present with a firmly underground ethos. Auditory Cortex paints a mural of grief and impending doom, and som som hits with a lo-fi banger about getting pulled out of the gutter, moody verses exploding into noise pop bliss. Glass Dolls channels Montreal bedroom pop and post-punk through love and loss, while Parker Posies bring Gen Z girls with Gen X attitudes and surfy, bittersweet indie pop with a punk rock soul.
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Outdoor Drama
like early R.E.M. or any number of other groups, obscure to popular, ranging from North Carolina to New Zealand and beyond