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Indie Basement: New indie, alternative, and college rock releases.
The needle drops on another week of essential listening, and the indie sphere is vibrating with a frequency that feels both thrillingly new and comfortingly familiar. Let’s cue up the new releases that are demanding space on the turntable and in your daily rotation.First, Sharp Pins deliver a jolt of wiry, post-punk energy that recalls the early urgency of Wire, all sharp angles and melodic tension that gets under your skin. Then there's the ever-enigmatic Oneohtrix Point Never, who continues to defy categorization with a new work that is less an album and more an audio ecosystem, a sprawling soundscape where digital glitches collide with haunting, almost orchestral beauty—it’s a headphone record par excellence, demanding your full attention.From a completely different quadrant comes pôt-pot, whose lo-fi, bedroom-pop sensibilities feel like a secret shared between friends, all hushed vocals and charmingly unvarnished instrumentation that builds a world you want to crawl into. And we can’t overlook Glyders, who channel the swaggering, riff-heavy ghost of 70s proto-punk into something fiercely contemporary, a reminder that rock ‘n’ roll, when done with this much conviction, is forever.Beyond the standard album drops, this week offers deep cuts for the collectors. The soundtrack for the game GAME is a surprising standout, a composition that elevates pixelated adventures into cinematic epics, while the score for SIRĀT weaves a more ambient, atmospheric tapestry.And then there’s the poignant tribute to Mani, the legendary bassist whose iconic, melodic lines were the undeniable backbone of The Stone Roses’ masterpiece and later provided the funk-infused pulse for Primal Scream’s dance-rock revolutions. Hearing his work celebrated anew is a powerful reminder of how a single musician's groove can define entire eras of music. It’s weeks like this that make you remember why you fell in love with digging through crates in the first place—the joy is in the discovery, the surprise of a new favorite band, and the deep satisfaction of a perfectly curated playlist that scores your life.
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