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Moments after Steve Kornacki paused slightly then continued reeling off percentages in whatever county in whichever swing state had just committed to Trump my iPhone and media feeds started going berserk. “We are doomed!” screamed one message and another declared “This is the end!” The votes across the nation were still being tabulated yet the numbers were indicating positively that Harris could…

Screenshot Baraka – Psycho From the Psycho EP, the French duo Baraka are Cristofeu and sa+ga who do an excellent job of blending 90s aesthetics, trance, trip-hop, acid and cool vocals. Baraka, whose name means Lucky Star was formed in 2020 just before the world went into lockdown. This one of those records that works equally on the dance floor and driving down the freeway with top down.  Modern…

DaddyMother – Out Of The Deep End You’ll immediately get why I included this cut from the Matriz LP by DaddyMother – it’s cool, quirky and you’ll want to hear it again. Pierre PapaMere out of Detroit and Lehkie from Asheville, NC have offered up a fascinating collection with distorted vocals, off-kilter instrumentation and at times disturbing lyrics as catchy pop songs from another world. On…

Crushed – Waterlily In the PR blurb for Crushed’s Extra Life album, the lovely people at Ghostly International (which happens to be a tip-top label) you’ll find a lot of information on how Bre Morell and Shaun Durkan got together to form Crushed. Plus you get a lot of genre-checking, which is fine of course, except we think this LA-based duo don’t need any “sound-like” references. Them appear to…