Sainthood Reps - "Monoculture"

Artist: Sainthood Reps
Album: Monoculture
Genre: Some kind of post-hardcore? I dunno, I'm not terribly versed on the genre.
Country: NY, USA
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1. Monoculture
2. Dingus
3. Telemarketeer
4. Animal Glue
5. Hunter
6. No/Survival
7. Hotfoot
8. Holiday Makers
9. Reactor, Reactor, Reactor, Reactor!
10. Widow

Alright guys, been a while since I got this to work, so this is my first post in actually months. I plan on posting much more in the future, including rewriting my last two posts, which were deleted for some reason.

So my first post back is a pretty good one. I'm not very familiar with this genre of post-hardcore nonsense, and this is definitely a stray from the path for me.
I heard about this band roughly a week ago, when my friend told me this story about how his girlfriend wanted to go see some crappy band, and these guys opened for that crappy band, and these guys rocked.
After listening to this album, that's about right.

Sainthood Reps rock hard. Such a nice blend of grimy and pretty. I could listen to the first two tracks on repeat for days. I suppose that's really the biggest downside to the album. While the first half of the album is super killer and stellar, it starts to kind of sound like filler. For a good part of the album, the band strikes a very nice balance between sounding harsh, and sounding gorgeous. Clean passages are haunting, mostly thanks to the singer's voice, which has a certain character to it that adds to the music as a whole. Then when SR switches on the distortion, total groovy jumpfest. The harder riffs in this album are top notch.

Again, the second half of the album starts sounding too... Poppy for me. They pretty much abandon their grit and go for sounding pretty. Such a shame, because those first tracks hit me really hard, and if they could release an album that maintained an intensity that's present in the first three or four tracks of this album, they'd be one hell of a force to look out for.
Unfortunately, that probably won't happen.

Check these guys out though. At least a little bit.



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K.Flay - MASHed Potatoes (2009)

Artist: K.Flay
Album: MASHed Potatoes
Genre: Hip Hop
Country: CA, USA
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	1.	ON the bridge 01:52
	2.	boom boom pow KUNG FU 02:38
	3.	CRAZYtown 03:06
	4.	heavy CROSS OUT 03:01
	5.	miniVANS feat. Eligh 03:02
	6.	love in this CLUB MED 02:33
	7.	supa dupa FLYING 01:18
	8.	MONEYmakerZ 02:50
	9.	LOCKDOWN feat. Zumbi 02:47
	10.	paper planes & SPITBALLS feat. MC Lars 02:54
	11.	crack a VANILLA COKE 02:47
	12.	NO ignorance 02:39

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K.Flay - Eyes Shut EP (2012)

Artist: K.Flay
Album: Eyes Shut Ep
Genre: Hip Hop
Country: CA, USA
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1. 10th Ave
2. Stop, Focus
3. Sunburn
4. We Hate Everyone
5. Easy Fix

This EP has been on repeat for me all week. It's old school hiphop with wubz. Great style, catchy hooks, and good lyrics and beats. Most of her music is free, check her out.

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Iamdeadsmiles58 (2009)

Artist: Iamdeadsmiles58
Album: Iamdeadsmiles58
Genre: Electro Noise Grindcore
Country: NY, USA
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01 - TAHT Star Spangle Machine guns (intro) (1:30)
02 - Who AM I (4:20)
03 - Im not cyber Grind Im tito core (1:34)
04 - Another Dead Shorty On The Block (4:50)
05 - This Horrifick Sight (4:11)
06 - Everone Hates Me.(4:48)
07 - This bleeding heart (1:03)
08 - Who was it that told us (6:36)
09 - Me vs U vs Myself (5:05)
10 - Surrendering (3:37)
11 - In a Dark Place (3:02)
12 - The Suffering (3:17)
13 - Untited State of Hate (6:08)
14 - Nightmers (5:07)
15 - Outro (4:08

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Discerned - (2010)

Artist: Discerned
Album: Discerned
Genre: Hardcore, Crust
Country: MI, USA
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	1.	Grave After Grave 02:13
	2.	Morning Obituaries 00:55
	3.	Old Ghost 02:41
	4.	Collapsed 04:29
	5.	Watch the World Burn 01:56
	6.	Every Sin a Scar 01:22
	7.	Accursed 02:17
	8.	Black Wind Howls 02:52

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Dredd - Cursed Earth (2011)

Artist: Dredd
Album: Cursed Earth
Genre: Hardcore, Crust
Country: MI, USA

	1.	Slaves 01:01
	2.	Rotting Rituals 00:50
	3.	Lingering Death 01:17
	4.	Cursed Earth 02:12
	5.	Street Justice 00:42
	6.	Black Sun 03:56
	7.	Desire The End 01:02
	8.	Journey To Nowhere 00:50

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Traitor - Demo MMXI

Artist: Traitor
Album: Demo MMXI
Genre: Black Metal/Hardcore/Grindcore
Country: MI, USA
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	1.	Devil Deals 02:13
	2.	No Taste More Bitter 04:33

Awesome

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Iamdeadsmiles58 - A Different Animal (2011)

Artist: Iamdeadsmiles58
Album: A Different Animal
Genre: electro noise grindcore
Country: NY, USA
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01 - Different Animal feat CyClone (2:12)
02 - The Song That End's (2:14)
03 - Skitsofrenic Saints Sucks Sallys Sweater (1:29)
04 - Make It Snow (2:05)
05 - NYC Where Is Your Heart (4:01)
06 - We All Try To Prophesize The Lies (4:05)
07 - Grindcore Gave Gully Gods a Grave (0:40)
08 - Close (my eyes) (2:04)
09 - Choke The Man (7:08)
10 - Monster's What Do You Want From Me (5:11)
11 - The One (5:28)
12 - In It Win It! (3:35)
13 - Reason's To Believe (7:11)
14 - I am nothing (outro) (7:26)
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Iamdeadsmiles58&Dental work split - Mother (2011)

Artist: Iamdeadsmiles58&Dental work split
Album: Mother
Genre: noise grincore/noise breakcore
Country: NY/MI, USA
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Track list: 1. Dental Work - Panic City + Uptown Girls + Mother/Weekend At Rostov's + Taco Hell/Bout It Bout It + Circus D.O.A.
2. Iamdeadsmiles58 - Disguise
3. Iamdeadsmiles58 - Fire!
4. Iamdeadsmiles58 - It Needs A Purpose
5. Iamdeadsmiles58 - A Song For That Night You Slept Over
6. Iamdeadsmiles58/Tooth_Eye - The One (Remix)

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Iamdeadsmiles58 - Suicide Stories (2012)

Artist: Iamdeadsmiles58
Album: Suicide Stories
Genre: Electro noise grindcore
Country: NY, USA
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	1.	Intro 01:05
	2.	Shut Up 02:58
	3.	I Am The Tree 04:04
	4.	They Don't Get The Love They Deserve 05:31
	5.	Santa Glam 02:58
	6.	The Reapers Grave Buried In The Woods 03:04
	7.	Wasted Years 04:05
	8.	Song Of Despair 08:04
	9.	Fake 03:26
	10.	A Point Of View Of The End 04:08
	11.	Please Begin To Win The End 04:07
	12.	I Don't Hate Everything 07:27
	13.	Outro 08:10

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Distant Relative - First Folio

Artist: Distant Relative
Album: First Folio
Genre: Harsh Electronic Noise
Country: USA
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	1.	Act. 1 00:32
	2.	Act. 2 00:47
	3.	Act. 3 00:13
	4.	Act. 4 00:57
	5.	Act. 5 00:36
	6.	Act. 6 00:36
	7.	Act. 7 00:58
	8.	Act. 8 00:35
	9.	Act. 9 01:30
	10.	Act. 10 02:11
	11.	Act. 11 01:49
	12.	Act. 12 00:49

So good

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My Daughter Called Me When I Wasn't... - Black Leg (2010)

Artist: My Daughter Called Me When I Wasn't...
Album: Black Leg
Genre: Mathcore, Noisy, Hardcore, Chaotic
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	1.	Над пропастью (Over the precipice) 00:39
	2.	От Себя (From Oneself) 02:05
	3.	Конгломерат Незаконченный Мыслей (Conglomerate of Unfinished Thoughts) 01:29
	4.	Вино из Одуванчиков (Dandelion Wine) 02:18

This is really good, Listen to it.

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Plagues of the Armada - (2011)

Artist: Plagues of the Armada
Album: Plagues of the Armada
Genre: Progressive Deathcore
Country: CA, USA
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	1.	The Ecclesiastical Fallacy 04:32
	2.	Dissimulative Ocular 03:37
	3.	Vectors : A Kaleidoscopic Descent 02:34

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Zelophilia - Lust, Loathing, & Love (2011)

Artist: Zelophilia
Album: Lust, Loathing, & Love
Genre: Avante-Garde hardcore, or power hardcore, or circus hardcore. I made those up.
Country: CA, USA
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1. The Locust Plague Antarctica
2. Dancing in Bloody Leather
3. Demons & Diminished Chords
4. Deconstruction
5. Feed
6. Gentle Sleep
7. Product of Man (Not Nature)
8. The Fornicator's Suicide Note
9. Wolves Scavenging For Crumbs
10. Scrawny Children
1. Lust, Loathing, & Love

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Anorak - Sick (2011)

Artist: Anorak
Album: Sick
Genre: Chaotic Hardcore
Country: France
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1. Long Black Half Hair
2. Wood Philosophy
3. Covered With Mud
4. The Mirror Building
5. Crowded Sunny Streets
6. Guru
7. Sticky Sand
8. Demonstrating My Slime
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Seize the Apparatus - The Roman Numeral for Ten (2012)

Artist: Seize the Apparatus
Album: The Roman Numeral for Ten
Genre: "Groovegnar" Deathcore, Metalcore
Country: Virginia, USA
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01. Anointed
02. Designed to Fail
03. J.T.R
04. Descending Darkness
05. Stand Your Ground
06. A Wolf in Sheep's Clothing
07. Solitary Existence
08. Burning Bridges
09. Relinquish My Soul
10. Enlighten

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This album has quite a few elements thrown into the brutality.  A lot of keys, some singing, some black metal-ish spoken word, gang vocals, string interludes. The guitar and bass work is very nice, creating some nice riffs and leads, and the drums compliment them. What gets at me, though, is the production is really lacking in power. Randomly, the guitars will fall in volume, or you can only hear one. It isn't in-your-face, as this genre should be.  The vocals as well, while Lance has a good range, come across as weak, and could have been mixed better. But this band has something for everyone in the -Core scene. Let's see where they go in the future.

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A Lot Like Birds - Remix EP (2012)

Artist: A Lot Like Birds
Album: Remix EP
Country: CA, USA
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1.  A Satire of a Satire of a Satire is Tiring (F3RAL Remix)
2.  A Satire of a Satire of a Satire is Tiring (Spencer Faber Remix)
3.  Tantrum (ZACHYG Remix)
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Foreboding Ether - Beyond Conjecture (2011)

Artist: Foreboding Ether
Album: Beyond Conjecture
Genre: Progressive/Technical Deathcore
Country: UK
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	1.	Fore20 05:08
	2.	Deadline 04:15
	3.	Tunabhuna 04:44
	4.	Conscious Altered 05:08
	5.	House of Cards 04:09
	6.	OD 04:26

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Ah Ciliz - Led Astray (2011) Review

Artist: Ah Ciliz
Album: Led Astray
Genre: Atmospheric Black Metal
Country: CA, USA
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	1.	Led Astray 08:55
	2.	Ailing 09:41
	3.	Secrets of the Forest 08:25
	4.	Eyes of the Old Trees 08:09
	5.	Cenizas 03:18

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I am new to black metal. The band that sparked my interest in this genre is the young new giant, Deafheaven. I was really interested in the emotional, shoe-gaze elements that they combined with the darkened thrash. I wanted to find more post-black metal bands like them. One of the bands I have come across is Ah Ciliz. Unfortunately, one of my beefs with this style of metal is, for some reason, most of the bands that I have heard so far sound like they recorded live on tape decks. This may be an artistic technique particular to the style, and in that case that is great and whatever, or it may be a lack of funds. Either way, as an engineer and mixer, this is a downer for me as I want the most powerful recordings the band can perform.
As for this record, Led Astray, the recording is pretty dry, but not awful. The instruments are audible. The usual elements are found here; emotional (usually sad) guitar riffs often effected, fast drumming, and high growls and wails. Sounds are around the 8 and 9 minutes mark. The first song kind of threw me off as it felt like the intro never ended. Track two, however, picked up the speed of the album. I feel like a hipster for comparing everything to Deafheaven, but what will you do? This release is actually quite good as a whole and the transitions to clean and ambient parts are nice, but it does not reach the DFHVN mark due to the lack of power, originality, and excitement in the main riffs. Hopefully for their next release the production if bumped up to better express the band's sounds and vibes. If you are a fan of this style, get it. If you are new to it like me, you really need to be in the right mood for it. Maybe listen to it at midnight alone with the lights low, not in the morning when you are ready to start a new day. I will be back to write about more black metal I find in my journey, I'm sure. 

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capacities - Preliminary Recording (2012)

Artist: capacities
Album: Preliminary Recording
Genre: Hardcore, Screamo
Country: NJ, USA
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	1.	Booker Tells It 00:51
	2.	All That One Can Do 00:34
	3.	An Unsuccessfull Attack 01:02
	4.	I Am Better On Pills 00:38

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Gary Busey Amber Alert - Two Songs (2011)

Artist: Gary Busey Amber Alert
Genre: Technical Crazy Death Metal
Country: CA, USA
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1. Of Decimus Divine
2. Vile Remnants

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Trocotombix - Somormujo Lavanco (2011)

Artist: Trocotombix
Album: Somormujo Lavanco
Genre: Technical Grindcore
Country: Valencia
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	1.	Motonabo 01:33
	2.	Castacliótox 02:20
	3.	Tromboicox 01:21
	4.	Trocotombix - Wokiwomider 02:12
	5.	Trocotombix - Ardominalek 01:23
	6.	Awachawíwoc 01:11
	7.	Trocotombix - trakemorrel 01:42
	8.	Trocotombix - Roca-Cúper 02:29
	9.	Trocotombix - Tucuntucui 01:41
	10.	Trocotombix - Wachopera 02:17
	11.	Trocotombix - Oconomowoc 02:08

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The MC Type - Bad Tattoos Vol. 1 (2012)

Artist: The MC Type
Album: Bad Tattoos Vol. 1
Genre: Hip Hop, Comedy
Country: WA, USA
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	1.	Never Grow Up 03:02
	2.	Be Yourself 03:39
	3.	Here and Now (w/Mariella Riot) 03:19
	4.	My Friends 02:52
	5.	For Me 03:12

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Open Wide, The Sky - Monolith (2012)

Artist: Open Wide, The Sky
Album: Monolith
Genre: Metalcore
Country: Newark, DE
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	1.	Tower Falls 05:12
	2.	Oceanic 05:49
	3.	Sailing Across The Onyx Seas 05:39
	4.	The Divine Throne 05:56
	5.	Should Thinking Be A Sense 05:01
	6.	The Journey Has Only Just Begun 10:16
	7.	Monolith 05:34

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Shit Yourself Little Parrot/Hwi Noree Split EP (2012)

Genre: Metalcore/Mathcore, Nintendocore
Country: Mallorca, ES/Paris, FR
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	1.	Shit Yourself Little Parrot - Wireless Kids 03:39
	2.	Shit Yourself Little Parrot - Jafudha Cresques 03:50
	3.	Shit Yourself Little Parrot - Agaporni 03:42
	4.	Hwi Noree - Mechanical 02:17
	5.	Hwi Noree - Breakdown 02:00
	6.	Hwi Noree - Seven 04:23
	7.	Hwi Noree - Start my Engine 03:21

Listening to this split EP with no background knowledge of the bands other than where they are based from. The opening track by Hwi Noree, Mechanical, is more hardcore/metalcore than I expected. In fact, it sounds very southern hardcore. The second track, has a very Every Time I Die vibe. The vocals sound much like Pantera's vocalist with a modern metal flare. Okay, now the third track is all mathcore. Crazy. Anyway these songs are fun and full of slam-dancing and circle-pitting potential.

Now for Shit Yourself Little Parrot from Spain. This is completely different. This is like if Parasite-era See You Next Tuesday, HORSE the Band, and The Number Twelve Looks Like You collided in a T intersection. Sludgy breakdowns, Nintendo synths, from dissonant to jazzy chords, and grinding vocals. Their second track in particular, Jafudha Cresques, must be the theme of a video game from Hell. If you like spazzy mathcore, post grind, or nintendocore, you need to check this out.

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Deformed Elephant Surgery - Ubiquitous Astrolatric Oneirotheosis (2012)

Artist: Deformed Elephant Surgery

Album: Ubiquitous Astrolatric Oneirotheosis
Genre: Synthcore/Deathstep/Cybergrind
Country: Finland
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01. Wormwood
02. Brothel of the Cannibal Santa Claus
03. Theophagic Mechanolatry
04. Theolagnic Mundophage
05. Astrourethral Projection
06. Pregnant Stealth Planes
07. Chug Chug Wub Wub
08. Laceration of the Divine
09. Cerebral Xenotransplantation
10. Prank Calling Dead People
11. Global Annihilation by Antimatter
12. Swallower of Meconium
13. Behold
14. The Ventrilocution of the Butterflies

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Deformed Elephant Surgery is back from his two or three days of rest and writing with his hardest to pronounce album yet. Seriously, I have three DES releases in my iTunes from 2012 alone, and it's only April. Plus, look at that album title. It's a hoot. Anyway, he is certainly fine tuning his craft. Even with 14 tracks totaling 44 minutes, these songs do not lose your attention. The quick transitions to and from metal breakdowns, overly happy and slightly disturbing synthpop melodies, and dubstep breaks are much more refined, structured, and don't grow into something you expect. Each riff varies from the last. Plus, the buildups-drops fucking rule and can stand up next to famed EDM producers. The vocals, for those of you who don't know, range from falsetto singing, cartoon raised-pitch sounds, to slamgore guttural growls. Despite all the chaotic noise pounding your head, all the sounds are very bright and clear. Either there are high-quality instruments and plugins being used with good mixing, or these are cheap instruments and plugins with exceptional mixing. This release is very interesting and fun to listen to. Look at track 7, it's called Chug Chug Wub Wub. You need to hear it.

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Conjontive - EP 2012

Artist: Conjonctive
Album: EP 2012
Genre: Deathcore
Country: Switzerland
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1. Emily Rose
2. Redemption

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Perdition - This Wretched World (2012)

Artist: Perdition
Album: This Wretched World EP
Genre: Deathcore
Country: KS, USA
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	1.	Introduction 02:34
	2.	The House On Northlane (ft. Shea Moll from Autumn Of Terror) 03:56
	3.	The Village 05:33
	4.	Deus Ex Machina 01:47
	5.	Misery Chastain 03:42
	6.	This Wretched World 05:20

Heavy shit. The Intro is awesome.


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Knife Party - Live On Radio 1 from Space, Ibiza

Artist: Knife Party
Album: Live on Radio 1 from Space, Ibiza
Genre: Dubstep
Country: UK
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Knife Party - Intro
Knife Party - Tourniquet
Swedish House Mafia & Knife Party - Working Title*
Swedish House Mafia - Save The World (Knife Party Remix)
Knife Party ft. Skrillex - Zoology
Knife Party ft. Mistajam - Until They Kick Us Out
Knife Party - The Box
Knife Party - Fire Hive
Knife Party - Suffer
Knife Party - Internet Friends
Alesso - Nillionaire
Steve Angello - Rave n' Roll
Nero - Crush On You (Knife Party Remix)

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Dakota & Brett - Physics (2012)

Artist: Dakota & Brett
Album: Physics
Genre: Acoustic Indie Folk Pop
Country:  CA, USA

	1.	INTRO 01:22
	2.	The First Year 03:08
	3.	Overboard 02:48
	4.	June Hymn (The Decemberists) (free) 05:01
	5.	Surrender 05:53
	6.	Findings 04:57
	7.	Jesus, Jesus (Noah Gundersen) (free) 03:56
	8.	Sunflower 04:41

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