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VMPRMYTH: Everlasting Beat

While lacking in vowels, VMPRMYTH doesn’t in talent. He is one DJ-producer to watch out for.

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Passion Pit: Gossamer

Passion Pit’s follow-up to debut Manners is the band going bigger, more self-indulgent, but this only serves frontman Michael Angelakos’ pop acumen better.

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Citizens of Ice-Cream: Days of Bays

Whether intentional or not, CoIC’s childlike (and we don’t mean childish) approach to writing their music gives the instrumental band their charm. There are no pretentious efforts or need for a goreng moment to prove their skills on their respective instruments.

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Purity Ring: Shrines

Find Cronenbergian body horror hidden underneath Purity Ring’s earthy vocals, Southern rap-influenced beats, and Dilla-esque synths.

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Leinil Yu: The Art of Superheroes

JUICE puts on our comic book nerd cap on and talked to Pinoy-by-nationality and international-by-standards artist, Leinil Yu.

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Ernest Zacharevic: Foreign Eye For the Asian Isle

“I’m not a street artist, that’s just a trendy name. It’s not graffiti anymore, now it’s street art. Probably gonna be something else in 10 years, I dunno. For me it’s just painting outdoors.” – Ernest

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Eternal Summers: Correct Behavior

Eternal Summers corrected their behaviour with latest LP and succeeded.

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Sharliza Jelita: Manic Pixie Dream Songstress

UK-based Singaporean songstress Sharliza Jelita is quirkier than Zooey Deschanel tripping on peyote. Yet we can’t help but be enthralled by her; there’s electricity in not just her genre of choice, but also her eccentricity.

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Dirty Projectors: Swing Lo Magellan

Dirty Projectors’ previous album Bitte Orca, saw a trio of female vocalists added to the band whose vocals helped propel the band to accessibility with their poppy choruses. Latest LP Swing Lo Magellanamplifies that formula, the pop hooks and danceable arrangements are more apparent than ever now.

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Goldfish & Blink: Self-Titled

Goldfish & Blink’s self-titled debut is set to make them our very own EDM superstars, if they aren’t already.