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<li><a href="https://helmsalee.bandcamp.com/album/noctiluca">Helms Alee – Noctiluca</a></li>
<li><a href="https://hurryupshotgun.bandcamp.com/album/this-crystal-vessel">Hurry Up Shotgun – This Crystal Vessel</a></li>
<li><a href="https://djunah.bandcamp.com/album/ex-voto">Djunah – Ex-Voto</a></li>
<li><a href="https://seminars.bandcamp.com/album/iniquity-signals">SEMINARS – Iniquity Signals</a></li>
<li><a href="https://bhamilton.bandcamp.com/album/nothing-and-nowhere-2019">B. Hamilton – Nothing and Nowhere</a></li>
<li><a href="https://bigbigbusiness.bandcamp.com/album/the-beast-you-are">Big Business – the Beast You Are</a></li>
<li><a href="https://austerityprogram.bandcamp.com/album/bible-songs-1">Austerity Program – Bible Songs 1</a></li>
<li><a href="https://jrobbins.bandcamp.com/album/un-becoming">J. Robbins – Un-becoming</a></li>
<li><a href="https://tropicalfstorm.bandcamp.com/track/braindrops">Tropical Fuck Storm – Brain Drops</a></li>
<li><a href="https://open.spotify.com/album/0qDex6TgQI9CBAM1ZyJ0ZC">Drug Apts. – Clean Living Under Difficult Circumstances</a><br /><strong><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Honorable mentions:</span></strong></li>
<li><a href="https://christianfitness.bandcamp.com/album/you-are-the-ambulance">Christian Fitness – You Are the Ambulance</a></li>
<li><a href="https://nervouscurtains.bandcamp.com/album/i-tried-to-fight-it-but-i-was-inside-it">Nervous Curtains – I Tried To Fight It But I Was Inside It</a></li>
<li><a href="https://cuntsla.bandcamp.com/album/cunts">CUNTS – CUNTS</a></li>
<li><a href="https://multicult.bandcamp.com/album/simultaneity-now">Multicult – Simultaneity Now</a></li>
<li><a href="https://themagpies.bandcamp.com/album/annex">Magpies – Terrain<br /></a></li>
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<p><a href="https://helmsalee.bandcamp.com/album/noctiluca"><strong><br />Helms Alee – Noctiluca</strong></a></p>
<p>Alternately (and sometimes simultaneously!) heavy as hell and laden with soaring beauty, Helms Alee are the oncoming storm. No band currently working effectively works in such a deft and unique field. That’s because there are none like them. What can I say? This is an essential record and I listen to it regularly. Not many bands can put out their 5th album and having it arguably be their best.<br />Helms Alee, long may they run.</p>
<ul class="wp-block-list"><li><a href="https://open.spotify.com/album/0hqgU6C8MRpj88oJzazVyI">Spotify:</a></li><li><a href="https://helmsalee.bandcamp.com/album/noctiluca">Bandcamp: helmsalee.bandcamp.com</a></li><li><a href="https://www.facebook.com/HelmsAlee/">Facebook: HelmsAlee</a></li><li><a href="https://twitter.com/HelmsAleeMusic">Twitter</a>: <a href="https://twitter.com/HelmsAleeMusic">@HelmsAleeMusic</a></li></ul>
<p><a href="https://hurryupshotgun.bandcamp.com/album/this-crystal-vessel"><strong>Hurry Up Shotgun – This Crystal Vessel</strong></a></p>
<p>Both brooding and soaring, intense but never boring… Oakland’s Hurry Up Shotgun have yet again delivered one of the best records of the year. Not explicitly any one genre, but pairing innovative arrangement and discordance with melody and harmony, HuS continues
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