A few words about a few local tracks that hit the spot this week
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Sinia – Missed Exit
Minimalist, free-floating heartache jam that deconstructs R&B’s composite parts and scatters them loosely around a skeletal rhythmic framework. A rumble of bass here, a synth droplet or triangle ping there, serve as landmarks for Sinia to languidly poke around and navigate at her own pace.
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Indigo Rae – If I Smoked Cigarettes
A stripped down uke-and-vocals track that coaxes fragile melancholy out of an instrument usually associated with beachy bliss. Indigo Rae, their voice pitched at maximum wistfulness, ponders possibilities (picking up a nicotine habit, letting go of rage, growing their hair out) as they seek to find the point “where the pain stops, and where I begin.”
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Memory Front – Leave With Grace
Dark, cavernous electro-rock that distresses its obsidian instrumental polish with an anguished vocal performance that taps into a mineshaft of emotion. The lyrics are cryptic (“You were satin white/With lungs like little cities […] Did you choke on fingers in your starry mouth?”), but the delivery is riveting and raw, to the point where you feel like you’re intruding on something.
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