Monster Rally

Monster Rally sounds nothing like you would think a band named Monster Rally would sound.  Its a strange and beautiful concoction of lo-fi instrumental ambient/hip-hop and tropical pop sure to please as you're hazily roaming  the shore environment being kissed by the ocean air in search for some ice cream.

Artist: Monster Rally
Album: Beyond the Sea
Song: Lava Flows
Genre: chillwave/hip-hop/tropical

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Hayworth

These Rhode Island gentlemen spit fucking venom. The vocalist must've blown out his vocals after this album, they're at such a beautiful/discordant high pitch it sends shivers down ones spine.  The instrumentals are equally impressive using extremely complex time signatures, sporadic changes in tempo leading from blast beat grinding to beatdown slamming.  There is absolutely beauty in chaos.

Artist: Hayworth

Album: I Now Pronounce You Fucked and Depressed

Song: Fuck Church

Genre: mathcore/grindcore

ENJOY   I Now Pronounce You Fucked and Depressed

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Kiss Kiss Fantastic

Really catchy, hazed dream pop that just makes your mind wonder elsewhere in a state of bliss and nostalgia.  Fun fact:  the band members have never met in person before; they just send each other ideas back and forth via internet.

Artist: Kiss Kiss Fantastic

Album: The Red/Blue Shift

Song: Oh Carolina!

Genre: dream pop/shoegaze

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Holiday Shores

One of those bands that has a name totally appropriate for their delivered sound.  Holiday Shores is a hazy walk on the beach with nostalgia in mind teetering on dream territories.

Artist: Holiday Shores
Song: Airglow
Album: New Masses for Squaw Peak
Genre: dream pop/psychedelic/indie

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Body Cheetah

Hip-hop, indie, r&b, and psychedelia you say?  Body Cheetah is far to unique and badass to ignore; this guy is going places.

Artist: Body Cheetah
Song: Psychoswagger
Album: Blonde Bitches Ain't Free
Genre: experimental/hip-hop/indie

ENJOY   Ten Thousand Thunders
ENJOY   Blonde Bitches Ain't Free
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Hello Ocho

I don't quite know how to describe Hello Ocho.  Its psychedelic, popy, experimental, folky, post-rock like but yet not.

Artist: Hello Ocho

Album: Hello Ocho

Song: Party on a Raincloud

Genre: psychedelic/experimental/folk

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Leon Sommer

Angelic guitar pluckings. dreamy reverb. Nostalgic synth. Leon Sommer.  Absolutely beautiful folkiness caught in a haze.

Artist: Leon Sommer

Album: No Suprises

Song: Wonder If

Genre: dream pop/folk

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The December Sound

Another band who has a perfectly fitting name; even the album cover captures their sound.  They certainly don't have a July type of sound.  Its spacey, droning, bleak but yet beautiful.  Truly an enchanting experience.

Artist: The December Sound

Album: The December Sound

Song: Never

Genre: shoegaze/psychedelic

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Dionaea

Post-rock mathcore?  It totally fucking works.  This is an extremely talented band from New Jersey making mainly instrumental music.  The technicality of it along with the energy they put in will have you stunned at points from what you are hearing.  They have the technical proficiency of Ion Dissonance with the beauty of Mogwai.

Artist: Dionaea

Album: Still

Song: Same Story

Genre: mathcore/post-rock

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Dissever the Tyrant

I've been looking through my library for some bands that I had forgotten about that deserve to resurface.  I would put this band on to ignite the fire in everyone to burn an empire, shed some blood.  Well... push each other around in a playful but yet aggressive manor.  I haven't heard much more from this band except for this EP, but a brutal and slamming one it is.  

Artist: Dissever the Tyrant

Album: DEMO

Song: Voracity

Genre: slamming brutal death metal

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