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Dez Dare Premieres 10000 Monkeys + An Argument with Time

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Looking forward to what’s shaping up as a busy March, we’ve got our eyes on Brighton’s Dez Dare and his record, A Billion Goats. A Billion Sparks. Fin. An earlier single was sort of an electronic-induced version of that cliche of “going for a drive with the windows down;” it was a smash, and a reminder of the anomaly that is Dez Dare. Today, you get the more pensive piece, culling some heavy riffs into this almost spasming bit of electronic pop music. Could it be a game soundtrack? Possibly. Could it be Dare flirting with our need to be surrounded by walls of noise? Certainly. Those bursts are brief, an exorcism that quickly gets peeled to reveal clever beat-play. Then, it returns, the riffs jamming out and the vocals adding an emphatic kick to the percussion, stomping the song to a close. You can grab the new LP from God Unknown Records on March 1st.

XDS Announce Bicycle Ripper

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I honestly do not know too much about XDS, other than the band formerly known as Experimental Dental School has a new LP coming from Mt. St. Mtn., one of my most trusted musical resources. They’ve titled their new album Bicycle Ripper, which for some reason made me want to describe this as the soundtrack to the old Nintendo classic, Paperboy. It has that natural sort of slow movement, with little accented flares here and there, like when you hit the mailbox just perfectly, or have to dodge that barking dog. It’s an oddity of sorts, but in the most captivating fashion. If you’re looking to take your noise pop and really get it out there, then might I suggest you try this on for size? Bicycle Ripper drops on June 16th.

Obligatory Tony Molina Post

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I’m a big Tony Molina fan, as the site would indicate. Yesterday we got news of a new LP, which seems to have almost sold out already. Tony’s been working at writing great short pop songs, and this go round, it sounds like he’s keeping the fuzz right in the tunes, as you can tell by the guitar work. His new LP In the Fade is dropping via Run for Cover Records on August 12.