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Ella Williams aka Squirrel Flower shares the glorious lead single from her beautiful debut LP I Was Born Swimming, coming in early 2020 on Polyvinyl. If you're into this one -- and just like being floored by vulnerable, relatable, and hauntingly visceral indie rock that is alternately soaring and devastating -- and would like to get a jump on the best albums of next year, you can pre-order here to

Clairo, an extremely versatile young Boston artist to whom we were just introduced earlier this month by Drew of Hoops, collabs with Oslo's Jakob Ogawa on a dreamy soft-pop duet, taken from the latter's forthcoming debut EP. Listen to the exceedingly charming and lovely "You Might Be Sleeping" below:

Boston rapper Cousin Stizz follows up one of our favorite releases of last year (which you can still download for free here or here) and a subsequent wavy single with his latest breezy low-key anthem, "Super Bowl":

Suffolk County, the debut mixtape from Boston's Cousin Stizz that dropped back in June, is now officially up there with Summertime '06 and Barter 6 as one of our favorite rap records of the year. The tape's endlessly catchy highlights "Dirty Bands" + "Shoutout" have dominated this back half of our summer, and now both tracks get massive, Stizz-approved re-works from Alpha Pup-