Category: Album Reviews
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Recommended Album: Oneohtrix Point Never – ‘Tranquilizer’
Daniel Lopatin’s latest opus of a digital monument in sound is an antidote against the content dump that uses its disposable substances against it.
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Recommended Album: Glitterer – ‘erer’
The latest post-hardcore of a thinking person’s substance built with stainless steel amounts to yet another steady level up for Ned Russin and company.
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Recommended Album: Algernon Cadwallader – ‘Trying Not to Have a Thought’
Thriving in their return, the emotive math rockers have working through this daily dread of being alive thing figured out.
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Recommended Album: AKAI SOLO – ‘No Control, No Glory’
This is the clutter of all that over-wrought chaos floating through the Brooklyn underground rapper’s head, as close as can be to clarified.
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Recommended Album: Geese – ‘Getting Killed’
On buzz skepticism, hearing new music outside of the Internet vacuum, and practicing patience with getting Geese-pilled by the raw, idiosyncratic energy of ‘Getting Killed’.
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Recommended Album: DRAIN – ‘…IS YOUR FRIEND’
Another electric performance in modern hardcore thrash from the Santa Cruz trio is what happens when all of the right elements between its people parts come to together and have each others backs.
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Recommended EP: SPEED – ‘ALL MY ANGELS’
SPEED confront the catch-22 of a hard road to success by doing what they’ve willed as their super strength: honoring their community through really fucking fast and heavy music.
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Recommended Album: Sharp Pins – ‘Balloon Balloon Balloon’
The Lifeguard guitarist’s second album as Sharp Pins throws power-pop nostalgia for a loop where every moment and its idiosyncratic craft has you hanging on, as if it’s the first time you’ve ever heard music made this way.
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Recommended EP: ira glass – ‘joy is no knocking nation’
The Chicago underground band’s feral instincts to celebrate their raw, messy, confrontational yet charismatic bouts of noise are only growing stronger on their second EP.
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Recommended Album: crushed – ‘no scope’
On their debut full-length, the dreamy electronic guitar-pop duo pulls your head into galaxy brain mode with an effortless cool that easily hits the mark.
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