Moving now from one of heavy metal’s most celebrated champions to a hushed artist who calls her brand of music “Heaven metal” (but not in a Stryper way). Listening to Midwife’s output, it might seem like that tag is a joke. But while there isn’t anything obviously metallic (or even heavy) on Luminol, there are glints of sharpness glimmering in the muted, shoegazey atmospheres that betray a sensibility forged in the fires of heavy metal—and if you can’t tell by hearing, their place on the Flenser’s roster should fill you in.
As I’ve written before, I have mostly ignored skramz until I just recently discovered that there’s actually a lot of skramz that I 
For one brief and wonderful period in the early days of the Millennium, indie rock merged together with ’60s psychedelic and ’90s lo-fi to create a fearless and fresh sound that lived somewhere between synthpop, jangle pop, and dance punk. MGMT were certainly the standard bearers of the movement, but its territory stretched from Grizzly Bear to Animal Collective. Heck, even 
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