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New Music Friday: 5 Songs You Need to Hear This Week (10/09)

This week, New Music Friday brings us fresh jams from Deafheaven, The Mars Volta, and the return of Texas thrash heroes Power Trip.

By Stephen Andrew Galiher

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Well, well, well. If it isn’t our old friend, New Music Friday.

This week, we have a solid collection of new heavy tunes, with a couple of fun, experimental tracks in between to give you a breather. It’s all great stuff, and I hope you find your new favorite song.

“Hunter” by Deafheaven

Surprise! Deafheaven just released a secret project, and it’s everything you didn’t know you needed.

The record is an EP titled At Work in the Fields of the Bomb. The title is a reference to Robert Del Tredici’s photography book that documents the ordinary people and places involved in producing nuclear weapons.

That connection right there is deeply noticeable in the soundtrack that the Bay Area blackgaze band has crafted. The tentative thing feels like the musical equivalent of an A-bomb assembly line.

As part of the project’s unexpected roll-out, Deafheaven has released a short film music........

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