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Sonic Subculture Alignment

Art Punk & Experimental Post-Punk

11 creatures in this subculture

Angular avant-garde guitar noise, hypnotic motorik drum loops, and eccentric lyrical storytelling.

Essential & sibling bands

Bands that share this sound. Each one opens a search on Spotify or YouTube.

Species in this vibe

American pika on a lichen-covered rock with a mouthful of green plants

American Pika

Ochotona princeps

A rabbit relative that stacks hay in summer and can be killed by two hours above 28°C.

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▸ Tune-Yards
Short-beaked echidna walking across short grass, spines and snout in profile

Short-Beaked Echidna

Tachyglossus aculeatus

The spiny, egg-laying mammal that digs into ant and termite nests and carries an electric sense in its snout.

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▸ The Drones
Eurasian Beaver (Castor fiber) foraging among vibrant yellow buttercups in a wild wetland meadow

Eurasian Beaver

Castor fiber

Europe's orange-toothed dam builder, hunted to near extinction, then counted at over 1.5 million across Europe by 2012.

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▸ Stereolab
European badger foraging in Drenthe woodland

European Badger

Meles meles

Nocturnal digger with a striped face, sharp claws and a network of underground tunnels.

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▸ The Fall
Harris's hawk perched high on a saguaro cactus surveying Sonoran desert terrain

Harris's Hawk

Parabuteo unicinctus

The desert wolf of the sky that hunts in cooperative, matriarchal tactical family packs.

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▸ Television
Hispaniolan solenodon with its long pink snout nosing through leaf litter at night

Hispaniolan Solenodon

Solenodon paradoxus

An ancient island insectivore whose venom, lab tests suggest, lowers blood pressure but fails to paralyse invertebrates.

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▸ Wire
Close view of a hoatzin's face: bare blue skin around a red eye, a spiky rufous crest and white-streaked dark plumage

Hoatzin (Stinkbird)

Opisthocomus hoazin

A cow-style fermenting crop, wing-clawed chicks that swim from danger, and a place on the bird family tree debated since it was described in 1776.

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▸ Talking Heads
House centipede on a pale ridged surface, banded legs fanned out on both sides

House Centipede

Scutigera coleoptrata

The night hunter on 15 pairs of legs, with back legs that on adult females are nearly twice as long as its body.

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▸ Tune-Yards
Red lionfish with fanned, striped fins hovering over the seabed off Anilao, Philippines

Red Lionfish

Pterois volitans

Swims at half its prey's speed and still wins six lab chases in ten.

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▸ Electrelane
Red-tailed hawk perched on a dead branch, its rusty tail fanned below it

Red-Tailed Hawk

Buteo jamaicensis

The copper-tailed hawk whose cry voices bald eagles in TV ads.

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▸ Yeah Yeah Yeahs
Red strawberry poison-dart frog with blue legs on a dark fallen leaf

Strawberry Poison-Dart Frog

Oophaga pumilio

A 2-gram rainforest frog in warning colors, whose poison appears to come from the ants and mites it eats.

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▸ Sleigh Bells