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Obscure Sound @obscuresound.bsky.social · 6d

A warming, hypnotic unveiling of jangly guitars and mellow vocals delight on “Ugly Jazz (Out of Faith),” a new track from NYC-based quintet Weird Magazines and their new EP, 'Out of Faith.' www.obscuresound.com/2025/10/weir...

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A warming, hypnotic unveiling of jangly guitars and mellow vocals delight on “Ugly Jazz (Out of Faith),” a new track from NYC-based quintet Weird Magazines and their new EP, Out of Faith. Their own or...

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Obscure Sound @obscuresound.bsky.social · 6d

Channeling a nostalgic, stylish pop spirit with an array of buzzing synths and soaring guitar lines, “See this Out” is the newly released single from SILENCE REMOVAL MACHINE. www.obscuresound.com/2025/10/sile...

Listen: SILENCE REMOVAL MACHINE - "See this Out"

Channeling a nostalgic, stylish pop spirit with an array of buzzing synths and soaring guitar lines, “See this Out” is the newly released single from SILENCE REMOVAL MACHINE. Representing the first si...

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Obscure Sound @obscuresound.bsky.social · 6d

Horse Radish’s new album 'Stimulus Response' takes the group beyond their kitchen-jams beginnings into a fuller sonic palette, embracing realms of rock and folk while holding tight to emotional clarity and warm lyricism. www.obscuresound.com/2025/10/hors...

Listen: Horse Radish - "Outer Space" + "Time Passes By"

Horse Radish’s new album Stimulus Response takes the group beyond their kitchen-jams beginnings into a fuller sonic palette, embracing realms of rock and folk while holding tight to emotional clarity ...

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Obscure Sound @obscuresound.bsky.social · 6d

A couple of standout singles from Philadelphia-based act Echo Kid play as timeless-feeling, melodic charmers. www.obscuresound.com/2025/10/echo...

Listen: Echo Kid - "Sunshine" + "Automatic Love" -- Obscure Sound

A couple of standout singles from Philadelphia-based act Echo Kid play as timeless-feeling, melodic charmers. The glowing, adoring “Sunshine” rides on brisk acoustic strums as smitten “you are my suns...

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Obscure Sound @obscuresound.bsky.social · 6d

Succeeding in both its hazy contemplations and melodic rock twangs, “Highway Signs” is a memorable new track from GroovyDrewV, the project of Massachusetts-based singer-songwriter Drew Valera. www.obscuresound.com/2025/10/groo...

Listen: GroovyDrewV - "Highway Signs" -- Obscure Sound

Succeeding in both its hazy contemplations and melodic rock twangs, “Highway Signs” is a memorable new track from GroovyDrewV, the project of Massachusetts-based singer-songwriter Drew Valera. “It’s a...

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Obscure Sound @obscuresound.bsky.social · 6d

“Playing Pretend” is an alluring new single from Aaron Bogin, weaving introspective lyrics with glistening guitars and soaring vocal layers. www.obscuresound.com/2025/10/aaro...

Listen: Aaron Bogin - "Playing Pretend" -- Obscure Sound

“Playing Pretend” is an alluring new single from Aaron Bogin, weaving introspective lyrics with glistening guitars and soaring vocal layers. Written during a songwriting course with Adrianne Lenker of...

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Obscure Sound @obscuresound.bsky.social · 6d

Expanding from trickling subduedness into a hypnotic slowcore-forward array of layered guitars, “Brotherhood of Sleep” is a resonating new single from William Covert, a Chicago-based artist long immersed in the city’s experimental underground. www.obscuresound.com/2025/10/will...

Listen: William Covert - "Brotherhood of Sleep" -- Obscure Sound

Expanding from trickling subduedness into a hypnotic slowcore-forward array of layered guitars, “Brotherhood of Sleep” is a resonating new single from William Covert, a Chicago-based artist long immer...

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Obscure Sound @obscuresound.bsky.social · 6d

“Ice Cream” is a standout track from Danish/Turkish artist BÜNNI, the project of Bünyamin Eroglu, who crafts music that feels at once playful and deeply emotive. www.obscuresound.com/2025/10/bunn...

Listen: BÜNNI - "Ice Cream" -- Obscure Sound

“Ice Cream” is a standout track from Danish/Turkish artist BÜNNI, the project of Bünyamin Eroglu, who crafts music that feels at once playful and deeply emotive. Here, shimmering soundscapes and twang...

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Obscure Sound @obscuresound.bsky.social · 6d

Los Angeles–based artist Aatocaster immerses on the newly released 'superstition (studio works ‘23 – ‘25),' a compelling collection of tracks where inventive electronics, textured synths, and layered vocals coalesce into melodic, hypnotic worlds of sound. www.obscuresound.com/2025/10/aato...

New Album: Aatocaster - 'superstition (studio works ‘23 - ‘25)'

Los Angeles–based artist Aatocaster immerses on the newly released superstition (studio works ‘23 – ‘25), a compelling collection of tracks where inventive electronics, textured synths, and layered vo...

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Obscure Sound @obscuresound.bsky.social · 15d

The debut single from +tope, “Hi5 (I am alive)” compels with its dynamic swell — shifting between fuzzy guitar haziness, playful rhythmic bounciness, and back again into a scorching rock-forward invigoration. www.obscuresound.com/2025/09/tope...

Listen: +tope - "Hi5 (I am alive)" -- Obscure Sound

The debut single from +tope, “Hi5 (I am alive)” compels with its dynamic swell — shifting between fuzzy guitar haziness, playful rhythmic bounciness, and back again into a scorching rock-forward invig...

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Obscure Sound @obscuresound.bsky.social · 15d

Propelled by a moody interplay of guitars and synths, “Across the Night Sky” is the riveting new single from Silicon Forest. www.obscuresound.com/2025/09/sili...

Listen: Silicon Forest - "Across the Night Sky" -- Obscure Sound

Propelled by a moody interplay of guitars and synths, “Across the Night Sky” is the riveting new single from Silicon Forest. Shades of Depeche Mode and New Order show in the striking production; the l...

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Obscure Sound @obscuresound.bsky.social · 15d

Delivering a replay-inducing alt-pop allure, 'World as Myth' is the consuming debut EP from RIMENY, the project of Zak Engel. www.obscuresound.com/2025/09/rime...

Feature: RIMENY - 'World as Myth' EP -- Obscure Sound

Delivering a replay-inducing alt-pop allure, World as Myth is the consuming debut EP from RIMENY, the project of Zak Engel. In addition to previously featured standout tracks like “Matt” and “Sweet Te...

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Obscure Sound @obscuresound.bsky.social · 15d

Cincinnati-based band In The Pines captivate across their new album, 'Sunbeam Dream' — moving across psychedelic, prog-rock, shoegaze, and beyond with a knack for melodic, absorbing structural reveals. www.obscuresound.com/2025/09/in-t...

Listen: In The Pines - "Time Shakes" + "Hide The Sky"

Cincinnati-based band In The Pines captivate across their new album, Sunbeam Dream — moving across psychedelic, prog-rock, shoegaze, and beyond with a knack for melodic, absorbing structural reveals. ...

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Obscure Sound @obscuresound.bsky.social · 15d

A lushly absorbing sound consumes on “california sun,” a recent track from Cartography, the solo project of Trevor Misplay. www.obscuresound.com/2025/09/cart...

Listen: Cartography - "california sun" -- Obscure Sound

A lushly absorbing sound consumes on “california sun,” a recent track from Cartography, the solo project of Trevor Misplay. A soothing soundscape glows right away, as hazy atmospherics meld with a ste...

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Obscure Sound @obscuresound.bsky.social · 15d

Nashville-based act Camper delight with a range of lushly inviting and powerfully textured pop on new single “Buzzcut.” www.obscuresound.com/2025/09/camp...

Listen: Camper - "Buzzcut" -- Obscure Sound

Nashville-based act Camper delight with a range of lushly inviting and powerfully textured pop on new single “Buzzcut.” Gentle acoustic trickles complement an ethereal vocal immersion — “…listening to...

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Obscure Sound @obscuresound.bsky.social · 15d

“Someone Else” is a stylish synth-pop stirrer from Aspen Forest, melding a hooky vocal build-up with memorable synth work — strutting a bass-y pulse and steadily hypnotic charm with post-punk and italo-disco appeal. www.obscuresound.com/2025/09/aspe...

Listen: Aspen Forest - "Someone Else" -- Obscure Sound

“Someone Else” is a stylish synth-pop stirrer from Aspen Forest, melding a hooky vocal build-up with memorable synth work — strutting a bass-y pulse and steadily hypnotic charm with post-punk and ital...

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Obscure Sound @obscuresound.bsky.social · 15d

Showcasing a dynamic art-pop and folk expanse, “Still Alive (Song for Grischa)” is a fantastic track from Vesna Kat, a Cologne-based singer, composer, and producer. www.obscuresound.com/2025/09/vesn...

Listen: Vesna Kat - "Still Alive (Song for Grischa)" -- Obscure Sound

Showcasing a dynamic art-pop and folk expanse, “Still Alive (Song for Grischa)” is a fantastic track from Vesna Kat, a Cologne-based singer, composer, and producer. Representing the second single from...

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Obscure Sound @obscuresound.bsky.social · 20d

Austin-based band Living Set unveil a ghostly, dreamy noise-pop appeal on new single “Last Wave” — maneuvering seamlessly from a lush array of synths and percussive pit-pattering into a textural, noisy invigoration. www.obscuresound.com/2025/09/livi...

Listen: Living Set - "Last Wave" -- Obscure Sound

Austin-based band Living Set unveil a ghostly, dreamy noise-pop appeal on new single “Last Wave” — maneuvering seamlessly from a lush array of synths and percussive pit-pattering into a textural, nois...

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Obscure Sound @obscuresound.bsky.social · 20d

Austin-based act Go-Machine emit a charismatic sound melding funk and prog-rock allure on new track “Black Sunday.” www.obscuresound.com/2025/09/go-m...

Listen: Go-Machine - "Black Sunday" -- Obscure Sound

Austin-based act Go-Machine emit a charismatic sound melding funk and prog-rock allure on new track “Black Sunday.” Breezy guitar tones quickly ascend into a rhythmically inclined passion, shifting se...

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Obscure Sound @obscuresound.bsky.social · 22d

Exploring personal identity and society’s push to mold and suppress true individuality, “Prettier Things (Pretend I’m a Man)” is a standout track from Minus World. www.obscuresound.com/2025/09/minu...

Listen: Minus World - "Prettier Things (Pretend I'm a Man)"

Prettier Things by Minus World Exploring personal identity and society’s push to mold and suppress true individuality, “Prettier Things (Pretend I’m a Man)” is a standout track from Minus World. The N...

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Obscure Sound @obscuresound.bsky.social · 22d

Lush alt-pop and shoegaze-friendly textures converge beautifully on “Five O’Clock,” the debut single from San Francisco-based duo olive green. The new project comprises Matthew Farrell (of previously featured band Night Hikes) and Amaris Griggs. www.obscuresound.com/2025/09/oliv...

Listen: olive green - "Five O'Clock" -- Obscure Sound

Lush alt-pop and shoegaze-friendly textures converge beautifully on “Five O’Clock,” the debut single from San Francisco-based duo olive green. The new project comprises Matthew Farrell (of previously ...

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Obscure Sound @obscuresound.bsky.social · 22d

The first single from Brooklyn-based band Zoos following a four-year hiatus, “Letting Go” achieves a balance of moody rock intrigue and anthemic vocal outpourings. www.obscuresound.com/2025/09/zoos...

Listen: Zoos - "Letting Go" -- Obscure Sound

The first single from Brooklyn-based band Zoos following a four-year hiatus, “Letting Go” achieves a balance of moody rock intrigue and anthemic vocal outpourings. A spacious, nocturnal soundscape ema...

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Obscure Sound @obscuresound.bsky.social · 22d

Los Angeles-based project Roses and Roses craft a moving, dreamy rock entrancement on “Touching the Sun,” balancing the pain of grief and the light apparent within moving forward. www.obscuresound.com/2025/09/rose...

Listen: Roses and Roses - "Touching the Sun" -- Obscure Sound

Los Angeles-based project Roses and Roses craft a moving, dreamy rock entrancement on "Touching the Sun," balancing the pain of grief and the light apparent within moving forward.

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Obscure Sound @obscuresound.bsky.social · 22d

Heartrending strings and dreamy guitar trickles consume alongside vulnerable lyrical power on “The Back Room,” a standout new track from Minneapolis-based singer-songwriter Greta Ruth. www.obscuresound.com/2025/09/gret...

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Obscure Sound @obscuresound.bsky.social · 22d

Stockholm-based trio Bleak Streak unveil an ominous, poignantly scathing rock invigoration on new single “Dork Shadows.” www.obscuresound.com/2025/09/blea...

Listen: Bleak Streak - "Dork Shadows" -- Obscure Sound

Dork Shadows by Bleak Streak Stockholm-based trio Bleak Streak unveil an ominous, poignantly scathing rock invigoration on new single “Dork Shadows.” A quaint assortment of piano, brass, and simmering...

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