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Dispatch - Break Our Fall (2021) [FLAC]

Released ................ 2021
Source .................. CD
Genre ................... rock
Codec ................... FLAC
Bit Depth ............... 16 bits
Sampling Rate ........... 44.1 kHz

D.I.Y. roots rock heroes Dispatch return with a renewed vigor on Break Our Fall, their eighth studio album. Their previous two releases, 2017's America, Location 12 and its tonally related 2018 sibling Location 13, played almost like anthologies of the Boston band's various styles and attributes, running the gamut between sunny West Coast folk vibes and harder-edged rock fare. Arriving three tumultuous years later, Break Our Fall is fiery and focused, doubling down on the group's tendency for socially conscious and politically motivated messaging. It's also their first album without bassist and founding member Pete Heimbold, leaving guitarist Chadwick Stokes and drummer Brad Corrigan to carry the band's legacy into its next decade. Fortunately, they do so with aplomb, carving modern-day anthems out of the upheaval of bitter political tension, racial reckoning, climate disaster, and a global pandemic. The album kicks off with one of its highlights in "May We All," a punchy and poignant rocker calling not only for social justice, but forgiveness. There are blunt condemnations of the Trump administration ("Promise Land"), paeans to the plight of immigrant workers ("Second Class Soldier"), and a surprisingly effective ode to beleaguered 1960s basketball star Connie Hawkins ("The Legend of Connie Hawkins"). If injustice is the fuel that keeps Dispatch engaged, they're running on a full tank. If anything, Break Our Fall has almost too much to say and might have benefitted from some trimming of its lengthy 15-track sequence. Despite this, there is plenty of energy and passion to go around, making for one of the band's more satisfying releases.

01 - May We All
02 - All This Time
03 - One By One
04 - As Old As I
05 - The Legend of Connie Hawkins
06 - Silent Type
07 - Break Our Fall
08 - Second Class Soldier
09 - Promise Land
10 - Born On Earth
11 - Greta
12 - Elevator Operator
13 - Stone Enough To Gather In the Night
14 - The Poet Nurse And The Identical Queen
15 - Pour Into You
16 - Connie Hawkins Coda

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Rise Against - Nowhere Generation (2021) [FLAC]

Released ................ 2021
Source .................. WEB
Genre ................... rock, punk
Codec ................... FLAC
Bit Depth ............... 16 bits
Sampling Rate ........... 44.1 kHz

As catchy as it recognisable, this new 11-track offering from punk rock staples Rise Against is packed with hooks, chuggy riffs and vocals that ache to be sung along to. While the title track houses the most intoxicating stadium rock chorus on here, Nowhere Generation reinforces the calibre of the Chicagoan’s hyper-accessible song- writing talent, from the early seductive melodies of Sudden Urge through the more urgent pace and slippery guitar solos in Broken Dreams, Inc. to even the earnest string-enhanced ballad, Forfeit. Over two decades and nine albums deep and Rise Against’s momentum and spirit hasn’t dented an inch. Good on ’em.

01 - The Numbers
02 - Sudden Urge
03 - Nowhere Generation
04 - Talking to Ourselves
05 - Broken Dreams, Inc.
06 - Forfeit
07 - Monarch
08 - Sounds Like
09 - Sooner or Later
10 - Middle of a Dream
11 - Rules of Play

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Hacks S01 COMPLETE

Explores a dark mentorship that forms between Deborah Vance, a legendary Las Vegas comedian, and an entitled, outcast 25-year-old.

Stars
Jean Smart, Hannah Einbinder, Carl Clemons-Hopkins

IMDB
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt11815682/

Video
2500 kb/s 1080p WEBRip AVC

Audio
384 kb/s AC3 5.1

Subtitles
English SubRip

Screens

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The Mountain Goats - Dark in Here (2021) [FLAC]

Released ................ 2021
Source .................. WEB
Genre ................... alternative, singer-songwriter, indie rock
Codec ................... FLAC
Bit Depth ............... 16 bits
Sampling Rate ........... 48.0 kHz

At last it can be told: the story of how, when the Mountain Goats got together in early March, 2020, it was to make not one album, but two: Getting Into Knives and Dark in Here. That’s how many keepers the band’s superhumanly prolific frontman, John Darnielle, had come up with since they’d recorded In League With Dragons in Nashville back in 2018.

From Peter Hughes of the Mountain Goats:

One of the words that John used when we were talking about the direction for Dark in Here was “wild,” which I liked a lot. Not wild in the sense of abandon—these aren’t those kind of songs. But wild in the sense of something undomesticated, untamable. Wild like the immutability of nature, the way it will take back any piece of untended space as its own, whether amidst the AutoZones and Chick-fil-A’s of Muscle Shoals [home of FAME Studios, where the album was recorded] or among the ruins of a scientific outpost on the Kola Peninsula. Wild like the whale; like a powerful animal. Or a virus—the beast that awakes, emerges from a forest, and stops the world. You can fight the calamity all you want, but either way, it’s going to demand your surrender.

01 - Parisian Enclave
02 - The Destruction of the Kola Superdeep Borehole Tower
03 - Mobile
04 - Dark in Here
05 - Lizard Suit
06 - When a Powerful Animal Comes
07 - To the Headless Horseman
08 - The New Hydra Collection
09 - The Slow Parts on Death Metal Albums
10 - Before I Got There
11 - Arguing With the Ghost of Peter Laughner About His Coney Island Baby Review
12 - Let Me Bathe in Demonic Light

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Modest Mouse - The Golden Casket (2021) [FLAC]

Released ................ 2021
Source .................. WEB
Genre ................... alternative, indie rock
Codec ................... FLAC
Bit Depth ............... 16 bits
Sampling Rate ........... 44.1 kHz

With the band’s first album in six years, Modest Mouse prove they have the staying power to remain atop the indie rock heap with their knack for harnessing a whimsical energy combined with tight little nuggets of sound and various fragments from diverse styles and genres to create something entirely different that is both exciting and fresh.

01 - Fuck Your Acid Trip
02 - We Are Between
03 - We’re Lucky
04 - Walking and Running
05 - Wooden Soldiers
06 - Transmitting Receiving
07 - The Sun Hasn’t Left
08 - Lace Your Shoes
09 - Never Fuck a Spider on the Fly
10 - Leave a Light On
11 - Japanese Trees
12 - Back to the Middle

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Lucy Dacus - Home Video (2021) [FLAC]

Released ................ 2021
Source .................. CD
Genre ................... alternative, singer-songwriter
Codec ................... FLAC
Bit Depth ............... 16 bits
Sampling Rate ........... 44.1 kHz

Following an album and tour with boygenius -- her trio with fellow twentysomething singer/songwriters julien baker and phoebe bridgers -- lucy dacus headed to nashville with her backing band in august 2019 to record her third solo lp. More personal than its predecessors, home video draws on memories of coming of age in her hometown of richmond, virginia. Strikingly vulnerable, tender, and sometimes regretful, it consists entirely of first-person narratives about subjects like deadbeat dads, awkward sexual encounters, and identity self-denial. It opens with "hot & heavy, " an affectionate and embarrassed midtempo entry featuring ringing guitars and multi-tracked vocals as part of a full-band introduction. The track list is split between smooth indie rockers and sparer ballads, with "first time" offering the one true fuzzy rocker of the set. Its controlled adrenaline rush includes the opening lines "broke into the screened-in porch/now i'm crawling through the dog door/i may let you see me on my knees/but you'll never see me on all fours. " another song about a personal connection, "brando, " confronts a pretentious film buff who once referred to her as "cerebral" ("would it have killed you to call me pretty instead? "). Baker and bridgers join her on a pair of tracks here, including "going going gone, " a campfire-style acoustic ditty whose other unidentifiable backing vocalists include mitski and liza anne. The centerpiece of home video, however, is the riveting "thumbs, " a hushed keyboard ballad about dacus accompanying a 19-year-old friend to meet with a father she hadn't seen since the fifth grade. Furious about how it all plays out, dacus eventually ushers her friend home: "you feel him watchin'/so we walk a mile in the wrong direction. " the album closes on the over-seven-minute "triple dog dare. " a compassionate lament set to humming keyboards and soft strums, it regrets repressing (mutual) attraction to a friend with an interfering mother. With dacus' warm vocals and melodies leading the way throughout, home video is an engrossing set steeped in life lessons and nostalgia.

01 - Hot & Heavy
02 - Christine
03 - First Time
04 - VBS
05 - Cartwheel
06 - Thumbs
07 - Going Going Gone
08 - Partner in Crime
09 - Brando
10 - Please Stay
11 - Triple Dog Dare

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Palberta - Palberta5000 (2021) [FLAC]

Released ................ 2021
Source .................. CD
Genre ................... indie rock, alternative
Codec ................... FLAC
Bit Depth ............... 16 bits
Sampling Rate ........... 44.1 kHz

New York-based abstract punks Palberta (Ani Ivry-Block, Lily Konigsberg, and Nina Ryser) went into the recording of their fifth album with the intention to create songs which were catchier and less abrasive than their previous material. Their earlier releases were filled with minute-long energetic bursts of angular riffs and playground-like shrieks, with tracks often burning out quickly, sometimes dissolving into fits of laughter. They also seemed to poke at pop music with a stick, slowing down Hall & Oates' "Rich Girl" and the Bee Gees' "Stayin' Alive" and altering their lyrics. Palberta5000 still has plenty of tracks that only last a minute or two, but the songs seem more planned out, with much more natural-sounding transitions between parts. They still come up with unconventional riffs and twitchy rhythms, but it's all executed with a bit more finesse this time around, and the trio's vocal harmonies have never sounded stronger. The best tracks incorporate vocal lines which are sweet but not overpoweringly so, such as the insistent "In Again" and the more yearning "Red Antz." They embrace repetitive hooks a bit more, but in their own way. "Big Bad Want" lands on the chant "Yeah, I can't pretend what I want" and ends up repeating it for several minutes, to the point where it seems like a running joke. "All Over My" is more smoothed out and dance-friendly, laying scratchy guitar solos over a shuffling post-disco groove and cycling back to the song's infectious chorus. While the musicians seem tighter and more disciplined than before, they make room for a few spontaneous, silly moments, like the perky, almost ska-like "Hey!" and the punky rush of "Eggs n' Bac'." The outro to final song "Before I Got Here" is a hypnotic procession with horns played by Matt Norman, and it sounds more majestic than the skronky free jazz-inspired bits that appeared on some of the band's earlier albums. Palberta5000 is more mature than anything they've done before but just as playful, and more accessible while impossible to mistake for the work of any other band.

01 - No Way
02 - Big Bad Want
03 - Never to Go
04 - The Cow
05 - Fragile Place
06 - In Again
07 - Hey!
08 - Red Antz
09 - Summer Sun
10 - Eggs n' Bac'
11 - Corner Store
12 - I'm Z'done
13 - Something in the Way
14 - The Way That You Do
15 - All Over My
16 - Before I Got Here

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The Besnard Lakes - The Besnard Lakes Are the Last of the Great Thunderstom Warnings (2021) [FLAC]

Released ................ 2021
Source .................. CD
Genre ................... alternative, canadian, indie rock
Codec ................... FLAC
Bit Depth ............... 16 bits
Sampling Rate ........... 44.1 kHz

The Besnard Lakes Are the Last of the Great Thunderstorm Warnings. The weight of such a title might crush a lesser band, but the Montreal space rock veterans have a history of similarly proclamatory banners and once again rise to meet a challenge of their own making. Released five years after 2016's more compact A Coliseum Complex Museum, Thunderstorm Warnings is the Besnards' first outing since leaving their longtime label, Jagjaguwar, and while they've never been known to suffer from the constraints of commercial aspiration, there is a certain note of freedom in these nine sprawling gems. Their dalliance with shorter track lengths now behind them, the band stretch languorously into the void with the combined sense of grandeur and exploration that has been a hallmark since their early days. The unique thing about the Besnard Lakes that sets them apart from the druggier space rockers and scuzzier psych groups is the way they always seem to fold elegant pop movements into their music, keeping even the longest tracks consistently interesting. The wonderful "Our Heads, Our Hearts on Fire Again" is a perfect example of this. The dueling vocals of core husband-and-wife duo Jace Lasek and Olga Goreas add a cinematic sweep as they trade between the song's dreamy synth segments, lush power harmonies, and pounding rhythmic swells in a way that resembles a shoegaze Brian Wilson conducting the Polyphonic Spree. The lovely "Feuds with Guns" is another bit of dramatic space pop that plays like a frosty winter sunset with a wonky synth refrain and a soaring falsetto vocal from Lasek. Even the title track, with its daunting 17-minute run time, is a heady exultation of orchestral rock sweetness that gets most of its business done after six minutes, leaving the listener so blissed-out, they're likely to just tingle quietly through the remaining 11 minutes of droning chords. Written and recorded in the wake of Lasek's father's death, the overall tone is more life-affirming than mourning. It would be disingenuous to say the Besnards had been on a downswing prior to this, but in wrestling with mortality they tap into a well of vital energy that makes the group appear revitalized and full of vigor.

01 - Blackstrap
02 - Raindrops
03 - Christmas Can Wait
04 - Our Heads, Our Hearts on Fire Again
05 - Feuds With Guns
06 - The Dark Side of Paradise
07 - New Revolution
08 - The Father of Time Wakes Up
09 - The Last of the Great Thunderstorm Warnings

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Teenage Wrist - Earth Is A Black Hole (2021) [FLAC]

Released ................ 2021
Source .................. CD
Genre ................... indie rock, alternative
Codec ................... FLAC
Bit Depth ............... 16 bits
Sampling Rate ........... 44.1 kHz

The world may seem like a pretty strange place right now, but if nothing else that's forced us into realizing that being human is a shared experience. That sentiment lies at the core of Earth Is A Black Hole, the second full-length from the Los Angeles rock act Teenage Wrist. The album also marks the group's first release since the departure of former bassist/vocalist Kamtin Mohager last year and sees the duo of guitarist Marshall Gallagher stepping up as frontman, with longtime drummer Anthony Salazar backing him up in spectacular fashion. "As soon as we found out Kam was exiting, I just started writing," Gallagher explains. "I wanted to keep this band going and we didn't know exactly what that would look like, so I wrote two songs and demoed them myself to see if everyone was still on board." Those songs turned out to be the jangly power ballad "Yellowbelly" and spacey rocker "Wear U Down"-and with that, a new era of Teenage Wrist was born.The artistic liberation of this lineup change, coupled with the past two years the band spent touring alongside genre-smashing acts such as Thrice, allowed Teenage Wrist to expand on the shoegazing sound that helped establish them as one of the most exciting rock bands around today. In order to capture this sound, the band enlisted Colin Brittain (Basement, A Day to Remember), whose production style merged perfectly with what Teenage Wrist were trying to accomplish with this album. From lush, guitar-driven songs like "Taste Of Gasoline" and "High Again" to the atmospheric ambience of "Stella" and syncopated aggression of "Earth Is A Black Hole," any of these songs could crossover into the mainstream without alienating Teenage Wrist's fervent fanbase. While they are still influenced by bands like Swervedriver and My Bloody Valentine-most evidently on the swirling anthem "Silverspoon,"- Earth Is A Black Hole sees the band shifting their songwriting focus to a more modern sound that showcases the limitless potential of the band.

01 - Squeeze (intro)
02 - Taste of Gasoline
03 - New Emotion
04 - Yellowbelly
05 - Silverspoon
06 - Wear U Down
07 - High Again
08 - Wasting Time
09 - Earth Is a Black Hole
10 - Stella

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Squirrel Flower - Planet (i) (2021) [FLAC]

Released ................ 2021
Source .................. WEB
Genre ................... alternative, indie rock, female vocalist
Codec ................... FLAC
Bit Depth ............... 16 bits
Sampling Rate ........... 44.1 kHz

Squirrel Flower’s heart-rending sophomore album Planet (i), following her 2020 debut I Was Born Swimming, is exactly that. A singular planet, a world entirely of artist Ella Williams’ making. The title came first to her as a joke: it’s her made-up name for the new planet people will inevitably settle and destroy after leaving Earth, as well as the universe imagined within her music. “Planet (i) is my body and mind,” Williams says, “and it’s the physical and emotional world of our planet. It’s both.” Buoyed by her steadfast vision and propelled by her burning comet of a voice, the record is a love letter to disaster in every form imaginable. Tornadoes, flooding, gaslighting assholes, cars on fire—these songs fully embrace a planet in ruin. As Williams rides from melancholy to jubilance to complete emotional devastation over the course of twelve songs, she carves out a future for herself and those she loves. Planet (i), out June 25, 2021 on Polyvinyl and Full Time Hobby, is at once a refuge, an act of self-healing, and a musical reflection of Squirrel Flower’s inner and outer worlds.

01 - I’ll Go Running
02 - Hurt a Fly
03 - Deluge in the South
04 - Big Beast
05 - Roadkill
06 - Iowa 146
07 - Pass
08 - Flames and Flat Tires
09 - To Be Forgotten
10 - Desert Wildflowers
11 - Night
12 - Starshine