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Spotlights

Spotlights is the Brooklyn-based married couple of Mario and Sarah Quintero, both formerly of Sleep Lady, whose 2012 album So Long Lonely Ghost was produced by Aaron Harris of Isis. In Spotlights, the Quinteros summon a supreme sound, equally heavy and dreamy. A tar-pit sludge-rock foundation is blanketed by layers of shimmering shoegaze. Their debut…

Tennis System

The world’s gone haywire and anxiety for the future wracks us all, but what else is new? That’s all the scene-setting you need to know to fall for the sunny ambivalence of P A I N, the latest release from L.A.’s raucous Tennis System. The characteristically lush, squalling album pans over familiar thematic terrain for…

Gleemer

Ft. Collins, Colorado’s Gleemer is rooted in the micro, the tiny parts of life that feel insignificant until you look back on them later and realize how much you’ve changed.