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Welcome to our thirteenth installment featuring CMJ’s OurStage Staff Picks from the CMJ Relay Blog. CMJ is well known for their industry leading New Music Report magazine, which contains music reviews, artist news and interviews with the best artists being played on college radio.

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“Flowerdrops”
Techno Channel
Capturing the essence of the spring season, “Flowerdrops” is an aesthetic movement, opening with aquatic noises and washed-out drums and culminating with warm synthesizers and airy atmospherics.
RIYL: Album Leaf, Eluvium, Explosions In The Sky

Bringing layered guitars, atmospherics and ethereal vocals, San Francisco quintet, Foxtail Somersault understandably draws comparisons to first wave shoegazers like, My Bloody Valentine. However, with a modern twist tempered by the post rock song structures of Explosions in the Sky and Mogwai, Foxtail Somersault lands somewhere in the territory of Asobi Seksu rather than Cocteau Twins. Winning multiple Top 10’s, a spot on the Paste CD Sampler, and a showcase at Noise Pop, Foxtail Somersault is our Daily Download.

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