Kevin Bronson on August 14th, 2013

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Here’s one for anybody who owns a substantial portion, or maybe even a little bit, of the Flying Nun Records catalog. Artifacts (rendered “a r t i f a c t s”) is the music of 23-year-old Domonic Renee, who hails from Santa Fe Springs, is pursuing his obsession for the noisier guitar bands of the ’90s and professes to never have heard of people like the Able Tasmans or Tall Dwarfs before a recent email exchange. Artifacts’ single “Heal Me” fits right into any Kiwipop timeline, though, its lo-fi guitars and and laconic vocals conspiring to create a fuzzy beauty all its own. First, this needs to be on somebody’s split 7-inch. Then … more, please.

||| Download: “Heal Me”