Category: Album Reviews
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Recommended Album: Feels Like Heaven – ‘Within Dreams’
On their breakthrough debut, the Stockholm band are doing their most to make feelings of the heavy-hearted an emocore ‘Dream’ come true.
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Recommended Album: This Is Lorelei – ‘Holo Boy’
A re-recorded scrapbook collection of Nate Amos’ pre-fame work reveals an always-existent refined indie-pop pen with a knack for always being ahead of the curve.
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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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