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The Best Vinyl of Nice, A Fest

Hump Day News’ very professional and profound analysis of the latest, greatest vinyl available from artists performing at Nice, A Fest end of July.

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Daisy

(T-T)b is a gazy, chiptuner with rock n roll instincts.

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Feeling In Love (From the Waist Down)

There’s something at once wholesome and louche about Twen’s sound. Like the Carpenter siblings were banging.

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Suddenly

Boston’s Kitner cultivates an air of melancholy on their debut full-length Shake The Spins.

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Good For Tonight

Olivia Sisay can play it soft & low or ramp it up for a big folk rock sound.

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Traffic Jam

Fuzzy, buzzy, trash and no star. Boston’s Black Beach waste no time in bringing the wastoid sunspot vibes on their 4-track EP Giallo.

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Cherry

The title track “Cherry” off Anna Fox Rochinski’s Cherry is peachy.

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Train Brain Rot

Twangy, guitar-driven alt rock is the name of the game for Philly’s Doll Spirit Vessel.

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XJ9

Pink Navel jigsaws autobiography, sound gags, and politics into a puzzle worth piecing together on EPIC.

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Ice Water

If you can’t get down to it, Boston’s Shallow Pools don’t want any part of it on their latest headspace.

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Keep It Inside

Say it three times fast: SQUITCH! SQUITCH! SQUITCH!

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50’s Love Song

Worcester’s Evil Felipe are experimenting with a lot of different sounds on their latest EP Spacing Out.

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Spinning Wheel

Rat Tally foregrounds the stops and starts of relationships and where it all leave us.

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allison

Tulsa’s Pisha released a dreamy, grindy electropop single “allison” that’s perfect for your summer mix.

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On Her Own

Brooklyn’s Maneka stretches itself in a lot of different directions on its latest full-length Dark Matters.

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Freezer

Boston’s Mallcops do what emo rockers do best: tell tales of youthful heartbreak and alienation.

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All My Problems

Really Great crafts breezy pop punk that preoccupies itself with emo-inflected life problems.

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A Face In Your Life

Boston’s Pet Fox operate all the levers and switches of postpunkery with finesse on their forthcoming A Face In Your Life.

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High On Yourself

Shades of Alanis Morissette in Boston’s oldsoul. Stream “High On Yourself.”

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Feel My Heart Beat

Boston’s House of Harm rides the #darkwave in their latest single “Feel My Heart Beat.”

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