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Independent music filter. I listen through the flood and select songs, EPs and albums worth your time. No promo copy, no paid placement. Curated by Evgen. Weekly picks: moosqa.vercel.app

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Moosqa | music worth your time @moosqa.bsky.social · 21h
A hideaway can become a trap. That is my reading of The Rolling Stones’ “Bad Luck Hideaway”: isolation dressed as shelter. A Jagger–Richards duet with Charlie Watts on drums. www.youtube.com/watch?v=0xwq... #RollingStones
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Bad Luck Hideaway
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Moosqa | music worth your time @moosqa.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Drink The Sea III: heavy blues-rock, tender shelter, jazz detours. Start with “Big Dirty”; explore the contrast with “I’ll Be Your Shelter”. #DrinkTheSea music.youtube.com/playlist?lis...
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Drink The Sea III
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Moosqa | music worth your time @moosqa.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Radio Free Alice’s “Big Ideas” ft. Rachel Brown turns breakup humiliation, office drudgery and bruised ambition into sharp indie storytelling. The humour has an uncomfortable edge. Give it a listen. #RadioFreeAlice www.youtube.com/watch?v=pMOn...
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Radio Free Alice - Big Ideas (feat. Rachel Brown) [Official Video]
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Moosqa | music worth your time @moosqa.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Love shouldn’t need a public witness. Death From Above 1979’s “Private Lives” takes aim at the pressure to broadcast intimacy. The unsettling part: we can become each other’s surveillance. Listen: www.youtube.com/watch?v=jTU4... #DFA1979
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Death From Above 1979 - Private Lives (Official Music Video)
YouTube video by Death From Above 1979
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Moosqa | music worth your time @moosqa.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Placebo turn the piano motif from “H.K. Farewell” into a new song. On “Helen Keller,” the repeated plea for trust sounds more fragile each time. The chorus circles its idea a little too long, but the tension holds. What do you hear? #Placebo www.youtube.com/watch?v=8kQb...
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Placebo - Helen Keller - Lyric Video
YouTube video by PLACEBO
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Moosqa | music worth your time @moosqa.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Erasure’s “Wings Of Love” brings loneliness and gratitude into the same frame. After 40 years, Bell and Clarke still make room for tenderness in pop. Does that idea speak to you? #Erasure #Synthpop www.youtube.com/watch?v=rDEB...
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ERASURE - Wings Of Love (Official Audio)
YouTube video by Erasure (Official)
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Moosqa | music worth your time @moosqa.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
At Seattle’s Lumen Field, Soundgarden’s “Outshined” and “Spoonman” bring a city’s music history onto the field. Taylor Momsen joins the band on vocals; Mike McCready adds guitar. Which song would you add to the set? #Soundgarden www.youtube.com/watch?v=b2uh...
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Soundgarden - Outshined / Spoonman (Live at Lumen Field ft. Taylor Momsen & Mike McCready)
YouTube video by Soundgarden
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Moosqa | music worth your time @moosqa.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
U2 call it “Silencio,” but the song asks who gets to break the quiet. Its words collide prayer, protest and longing. The repeated hook is blunt; the question beneath it cuts deeper. What do you hear? #U2 #Silencio www.youtube.com/watch?v=1mCN...
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U2 - Silencio
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Moosqa | music worth your time @moosqa.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Hermanos Gutiérrez turn toward the Andes on Los Ojos Del Cóndor. Charango colors their guitar conversation; “Yanantin” finds beauty in two voices meeting. A quiet, deliberate record. #HermanosGutierrez #InstrumentalMusic hermanosgutierrez.bandcamp.com/album/los-oj...
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Los Ojos Del Cóndor, by Hermanos Gutiérrez
10 track album
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Moosqa | music worth your time @moosqa.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Leon Bridges trades nostalgia for motion on Happiness Anytime: soul, alternative R&B and a warm rhythmic pulse. It rarely raises its voice; it simply holds the groove. A little more friction might sharpen it, but its effortless warmth is the point. 🎧 music.youtube.com/watch?v=ZirW...
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Leon Bridges - Your Love Is Electric (Official Lyric Video)
YouTube video by LeonBridgesVEVO
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Moosqa | music worth your time @moosqa.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Four Tet at Way Out West: a festival set with room for hooks, bass and curiosity. The listed tracks move from “Only Human” to “Mango Feedback” and “Looking at Your Pager.” Which one would you pick? #FourTet #WayOutWest www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jt5o...
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Four Tet - Way Out West 14th August 2026
YouTube video by Four Tet
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Moosqa | music worth your time @moosqa.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
CHVRCHES return with “Roses”: live drums, serrated guitars and a nursery-rhyme chorus turned into a warning about fear, power and endless cycles. The spoken bridge is divisive—but its panic is the point. A bold, bruising reset. futures.ffm.to/roses #CHVRCHES #Roses
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Moosqa | music worth your time @moosqa.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Trying to forget someone, then finding them in a stranger’s face. Rainbow Body’s “Strange Memory” catches that involuntary return beautifully in its lyrics. Which song does that to you? www.youtube.com/watch?v=7O4_... #RainbowBody
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Rainbow Body - Strange Memory (Official Music Video)
YouTube video by Rainbow Body
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Moosqa | music worth your time @moosqa.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
French meets English in the title; Acadian identity meets garage rock in the band’s own description. Curious about Aubin pi la S.C.B.? Here’s a ten-song way in. #GarageRock aubinpilascb.bandcamp.com/album/laisse...
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Laisse moi faire ma own thing, by Aubin pi la S.C.B.
10 track album
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Moosqa | music worth your time @moosqa.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
The intriguing thing about Rodrigo y Gabriela’s OurHome: Hiromi joins “Akatsuki,” and “Simurgh” gets almost 11 minutes to close the album. What makes you replay instrumental music: melody, mood or sheer technique? rodrigoygabriela.bandcamp.com/album/ourhome #RodrigoYGabriela
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OurHome, by Rodrigo y Gabriela
11 track album
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Moosqa | music worth your time @moosqa.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
NOBRO turn a sexist barroom remark into a three-minute punk release valve. “Girls Like Us” makes its shout-back hook carry exhaustion, ageing and a rigged game—and its dedication to Susan Moss gives it real human weight. nobro.bandcamp.com/track/girls-... #NOBRO #Punk
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Girls Like Us, by NOBRO
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Moosqa | music worth your time @moosqa.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
A 7-inch like two lost scenes from a coastal film. The Offline turns Biarritz memories into sunlit jazz-funk on Side A and reflective tide music on Side B. A small record with a wide horizon. theoffline.bandcamp.com/album/les-de... #TheOffline #JazzFunk
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Les derniers jours de juin / Marées, by The Offline
2 track album
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Moosqa | music worth your time @moosqa.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Steven Wilson turns a village hall into a pressure chamber. “Requiem For A Village” moves from spectral stillness to dry drums, prowling bass and abrasive guitars—prog rock made human, fallible and apocalyptic. Would you enter? www.youtube.com/watch?v=RPZ8... #ArtRock
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Steven Wilson - Requiem for a Village (The Village Hall Sessions)
YouTube video by Steven Wilson
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Moosqa | music worth your time @moosqa.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Valerie June’s Brighter Blue turns three standards into a journey from gospel lift to folk-blues ache and the electric growl of “Smokestack.” Tradition isn’t preserved under glass—it breathes, hurts and burns again. valeriejune.bandcamp.com/album/bright... #Blues #Folk #Gospel
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Brighter Blue, by Valerie June
3 track album
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Moosqa | music worth your time @moosqa.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Pokey LaFarge’s Rent Money makes AMERICANA, COUNTRY BLUES, HOT JAZZ/SWING & ROCKABILLY carry today’s weight: work, rent, faith and dignity. Vintage language, present-tense pressure—joy with dust on its shoes. Listen: pokeylafarge.bandcamp.com/album/rent-m... #RootsMusic
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Rent Money, by Pokey LaFarge
11 track album
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Moosqa | music worth your time @moosqa.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Ezra Collective’s Here Because of Hope turns a journey from Africa through the Caribbean to London into music about inherited pain—and inherited joy. Occasionally over-signposted, but deeply human, rhythmically alive and full of conviction. ezracollective.bandcamp.com/album/here-b... #EzraCollective
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Here Because of Hope, by Ezra Collective
17 track album
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Moosqa | music worth your time @moosqa.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
The War On Drugs return with “Who’s That?”, a widescreen anthem where forward motion meets inward struggle. Familiar architecture, striking emotional clarity: depression appears not as identity, but as the shadow keeping pace. youtu.be/1fMvp6GCyZI #TheWarOnDrugs
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The War On Drugs - Who's That (Official Video)
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Moosqa | music worth your time @moosqa.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
A house on a hill, a catalogue of talents, the exhaustion of always being right. I read Do Nothing’s “The Nail” as a sly lyrical portrait of competitive self-worth. Funny details, uncomfortable recognition. www.youtube.com/watch?v=m-ek... #DoNothing
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Do Nothing - The Nail
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Moosqa | music worth your time @moosqa.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Jimmy Barka Experience move into a darker, more elusive sound. “The Panther” previews Not Feeling So Good: electronics, restless rhythms, improvisation and live chemistry from turntables, programming and drums. jimmybarka.bandcamp.com/track/the-pa... #JimmyBarkaExperience #ThePanther
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The Panther, by Jimmy Barka Experience
from the album Not Feeling So Good
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Moosqa | music worth your time @moosqa.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Let Your Hair Down’s “Love In The Time Of” feels like a late-night scene where soul, funk and cinematic darkness meet. Warm, atmospheric and open-ended — more a mood than a conventional love song. Listen: letyourhairdownmusic.bandcamp.com/track/love-i... #CinematicSoul #InstrumentalMusic
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Love In The Time Of, by Let Your Hair Down
from the album Let Your Hair Down
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Moosqa | music worth your time @moosqa.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
“Good American” sounds like a victory lap until you hear who has been left behind. Spanish Love Songs turn heartland rock into an indictment: loud, blunt and built to be shouted together. www.youtube.com/watch?v=A4AJ... #SpanishLoveSongs #GoodAmerican
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Good American
YouTube video by Spanish Love Songs - Topic
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Moosqa | music worth your time @moosqa.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Skinshape’s “Take It As It Is” turns anxiety into a sun-faded groove: dusty drums, warm bass and a calm that never feels empty. Beautifully restrained—perhaps almost too restrained. A song for letting go without giving up. #Skinshape #PsychedelicSoul youtu.be/Ui0Knfd79GI
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Skinshape - Take It As It Is (Official Audio)
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Moosqa | music worth your time @moosqa.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
The Happy Fits revisit “Too Late” with a fuller frame: cello-driven indie rock that smiles, moves and quietly panics about growing up. Brighter and more assured, if a little less scrappy than the 2016 original. Listen: www.youtube.com/watch?v=VUrG... #TheHappyFits #IndieRock
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The Happy Fits - Too Late (Reimagined) - Official Music Video
YouTube video by The Happy Fits
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Moosqa | music worth your time @moosqa.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Cumbia walks into a dusty Texas bar, borrows a surf guitar and refuses to leave. The Animeros’ ¡Qué Bárbaro! is warm, raw and made to move—even when its retro palette occasionally blurs. Home listen or packed club? theanimeros.bandcamp.com/album/qu-b-r... #TheAnimeros #Cumbia
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¡Qué Bárbaro!, by The Animeros
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Moosqa | music worth your time @moosqa.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Interpol don’t reinvent the dark—they let it crack. The title track, “Enemy” and “See Out Loud” find the band alive at the edge of reinvention. 8.2/10. Listen: music.youtube.com/watch?v=KgJ8... #Interpol #PostPunk
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Interpol - This Mirror Weighs a Ton (Official Visualizer)
YouTube video by Interpol
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Moosqa | music worth your time @moosqa.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
HYUKOH’s “KoK” sounds like a procession toward success—until triumph turns into solitude. Eight patient minutes, a surreal collective spectacle and one uneasy question: was this really the destination? Listen: orcd.co/hyukoh-kok #HYUKOH #KoK #KoreanIndie
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HYUKOH - KoK
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Moosqa | music worth your time @moosqa.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
“Crying With You” turns emotional exhaustion into motion: clipped guitars, restless bass and a chorus that refuses to let grief own the whole body. Empathy, burnout or escape? www.youtube.com/watch?v=yCI6... #RadioFreeAlice #PostPunk
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Radio Free Alice - Crying With You (Official Video)
YouTube video by Radio Free Alice
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Moosqa | music worth your time @moosqa.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
QOTSA’s Insignificant Other hides a breakup inside a smoky blues-funk strut. The groove seduces while Homme slowly moves from bitterness to acceptance. The clever part isn’t losing someone.It’s realizing that letting go can be beautiful. 🎧 www.youtube.com/watch?v=1jGT... Perfecth → Oct 30. #QOTSA
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Queens of the Stone Age - Insignificant Other (Lyric Video)
YouTube video by Queens Of The Stone Age
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Moosqa | music worth your time @moosqa.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Rock’n’roll remembered it was dance music. The Schizophonics’ “Black Pleather” is handclaps, filthy fuzz, garage-soul swagger and proto-punk velocity — Chubby Checker dragged through a Stooges amp. MOOSQA: 8.8/10 ▶️ www.youtube.com/watch?v=8r4d...
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Black Pleather (Official Music Video) – Schizophonics
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Moosqa | music worth your time @moosqa.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Gooseberry’s “D.B. Cooper” turns self-mythology into a killer rock song: crooked groove, bluesy swagger, sharp wordplay and a verse deliberately built to feel slightly “wrong.” The mystery isn’t D.B. Cooper. It’s how easily fiction becomes identity. 8.8/10 gooseberryband.bandcamp.com/track/d-b-co...
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D.B. Cooper, by Gooseberry
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Moosqa | music worth your time @moosqa.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Too much music. Not enough time. Moosqa listens through the flood and selects the songs, EPs and albums worth returning to — with context, judgment and no promo copy. Curated by Evgen. New picks every week. What record stayed with you after the first listen?
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Moosqa | music worth your time @moosqa.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
A warm choir. A weathered voice. An unease that lingers. Lambchop’s Punching the Clown turns guitar, banjo and lined-out singing into something intimate, spectral and quietly political. Slow music that rewards returning. 8.7/10 lambchop.bandcamp.com/album/punchi... #Lambchop #IndieMusic
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Punching the Clown, by Lambchop
12 track album
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Moosqa | music worth your time @moosqa.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Gallus turn FOMO into fear of losing venues, streets and former selves on “MK Des.” The repeated “I won’t miss out” gradually sounds less like confidence and more like fear talking too loudly. Listen: gallus2.bandcamp.com/track/mk-des #Gallus #GlasgowPunk
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MK Des, by Gallus
from the album Life Is Bliss
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Moosqa | music worth your time @moosqa.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Void Queen’s I WANNA KNOW turns four songs into one downward arc: desire → doubt → illusion → addiction. Post-punk tension, dirty ’70s rock’n’roll, driving bass and Vilte Stasiuleviciute’s commanding vocal. Short enough to leave you wanting much more. 8.6/10 🎧 music.youtube.com/search?q=Voi...
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Moosqa | music worth your time @moosqa.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
The Afghan Whigs – Soft Control 🖤 Not a band trying to sound young, but one learning how beautifully age can sound. Soul, guitars, mortality, memory and Dulli’s weathered voice. “Duvateen” is magnificent. ⭐ 9/10 🎧 music.youtube.com/watch?v=yh-T...
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Duvateen
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Moosqa | music worth your time @moosqa.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Hermanos Gutiérrez turn two guitars into an entire landscape on “Los Andes.” 🏔️ No excess, no grand climax — just space, melody and extraordinary restraint. It sounds like remembering a place you’ve never been. 🎧 www.youtube.com/watch?v=blph...
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Hermanos Gutiérrez - "Los Andes" [Official Music Video]
YouTube video by Easy Eye Sound
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Moosqa | music worth your time @moosqa.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Jungle’s Sunshine feels like dancing in the day’s final light: warm soul-funk grooves, weightless harmonies and melancholy beneath the polish. Refinement rather than reinvention, but beautifully realised. 8.5/10 ☀️ jungle.bandcamp.com/album/sunshine #Jungle #Sunshine
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Sunshine, by Jungle
11 track album
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Moosqa | music worth your time @moosqa.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
BLUESKY Eddie 9V’s “Whole Lot Coming For You” is blues with the amps wide open: hard-driving groove, loose guitars, Southern soul and Freddie King DNA. Dan Auerbach keeps it raw rather than polished. Dirty, alive and made to be played loud. 8.8/10 ⚡ 🎧 YouTube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=975Z...
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Eddie 9V - "Whole Lot Coming For You" [Official Music Video]
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Moosqa | music worth your time @moosqa.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
A gifted artist becomes a master forger and enters Rome’s criminal and political underworld. Stylish, tense and increasingly fascinating as truth and fabrication begin to merge. The ending gives the title its real meaning. 🎬 Trailer: www.youtube.com/watch?v=OMeO... #TheBigFake #Cinema
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The Big Fake | Official Trailer | Netflix
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Moosqa | music worth your time @moosqa.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
A lost chapter of Malaysian jazz finally gets heard. Alfonso Soliano’s Tiga Trombone blends jazz, Latin colour and Malay musical language with effortless identity. 🎧 Bandcamp: habibifunkrecords.bandcamp.com/album/audibl... #AlfonsoSoliano #MalaysianJazz
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Audible Beauty 001 (New Habibi Funk sister label): Tiga Trombone, by Alfonso Soliano
11 track album
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Moosqa | music worth your time @moosqa.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
Carly Rae Jepsen turns heartbreak into lift-off on “Don’t Leave Me on the Dance Floor”: ’70s disco-pop glow, a huge communal hook and just enough ache beneath the gloss. Euphoric on the surface, lonely underneath — classic Carly tension. ⭐ 8.6/10 www.youtube.com/watch?v=bKVT...
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Don’t Leave Me on the Dance Floor
YouTube video by Carly Rae Jepsen - Topic
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Moosqa | music worth your time @moosqa.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
The Backfires’ Stardust turns retro rock into a 2026 question: what feels real? Analog warmth, imperfect edges and big hooks make it deliberately human. “Super 8” is the thesis; “I Want You” the rush. 🎧 music.youtube.com/watch?v=QB4Y...
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The Backfires - I Want You (Recovered Footage)
YouTube video by The Backfires
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Moosqa | music worth your time @moosqa.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
half•alive’s “The Wolf” is a sleek warning siren: stalled traffic, accelerating systems, and the sense that nobody’s driving. The wolf isn’t outside the machine — it’s already inside us. Catchy, theatrical and deeply uneasy. ▶️ www.youtube.com/watch?v=uRHI...
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half•alive - The Wolf (Official Video)
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Moosqa | music worth your time @moosqa.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Two guitars, no excess, an entire landscape. Hermanos Gutiérrez turn “Sonido Cósmico,” “Until We Meet Again” and “Low Sun” into a hushed cinematic journey for Gilles Peterson—precise, warm and beautifully unresolved. www.youtube.com/watch?v=OiGm...
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Hermanos Gutiérrez (Worldwide FM Live Session)
YouTube video by Worldwide FM
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Moosqa | music worth your time @moosqa.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Madi Diaz’s “Heavy Metal (UN-unplugged)” turns its title into emotional metallurgy: a heart made durable by pressure, not protected from it. Lucy Dacus adds a warm, steady countervoice. Tender, bruised and quietly defiant. 🎧 www.youtube.com/watch?v=2hJ2...
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Madi Diaz - "Heavy Metal (feat. Lucy Dacus) (UN-unplugged)" (Official Video)
YouTube video by Madi Diaz
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