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New Sincerity: The Hopeful Read
My relationship with New Sincerity is a bildungsroman. It began in high school, sometime in the early 2000s, when I first read Norwegian Wood by Haruki Murakami. At the time, I couldnβt articulate what exactly made my chest ache when Toru Watanabe wandered Tokyo, weighed down by memory and emotional ambiguity. I only knew that β read more
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Listening Party: how will i rest in peace if iβm buried by a highway?//, KennyHoopla
KennyHooplaβs how will i rest in peace if iβm buried by a highway?// is a short, electrified work, feverish and vibrant with both cultural memory and contemporary unrest. It evokes, almost uncannily, the wiry, adrenal pulse of early 2000s post-punk revival, particularly Silent Alarmβera Bloc Party with their clipped rhythms and almost ascetic guitar lines, β read more
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Listening Party: Deja Entendu by Brand New
DΓ©jΓ Entendu by Brand New is an album meant for nostalgia and emotional complexity. It shaped my adolescence, even though I never owned a physical copyβjust a collection of LimeWire downloads and a Walkman phone. The album defies easy categorization, often labeled alternative rock but carrying the weight of something more introspective, more unraveling than β read more
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