Category: Album Reviews
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Recommended Album: Suitor – ‘Saw You Out with the Weeds’
On their sophomore LP, the Cleveland post-punks not only expand the body count in the room, but the capacity within their sound to coexist as a shimmering prism as well one that smears glitter across the dark.
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Recommended Album: Various Artists – ‘RED XEROX: Chicago Youth Beat 2020 – 2025’
This comprehensive compilation of the modern Chicago underground rock scene documents how it may have begun with Horsegirl, Lifeguard, and Friko, but doesn’t sound like it’s going to end with them either.
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Recommended Album: Kim Gordon – ‘PLAY ME’
The third solo LP from the avant culture iconoclast sees the end of everything on the horizon and gets swept up in the whirring white noise of it all.
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Recommended Album: Sarah Bell Reid – ‘Manifold’
The quadrophonic sound sculpture from the Canadian experimental composer plays like an observational commentary on today’s upward trend in sensory-overloaded music.
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Recommended Album: CEREMONY – ‘Live At The Hollywood Palladium’
This 2024 live recording of ‘Rohnert Park’ isn’t just marking one specific moment in the hardcore punk band’s past, but celebrates the entirety of the timeline, still letting it move them forward today.
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Recommended Album: Nothing – ‘a short history of decay’
With their most creatively rich album to date, Nothing are a band who have been brought to the brink and are giving their everything in this moment, just for the inevitable collapse to take it all away.
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Recommended Album: MX LONELY – ‘ALL MONSTERS’
The debut album from the Brooklyn band is an intense therapy session with your tulpa set to head-splitting noise rock under a shoegaze specter.
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Recommended Listen: Converge – ‘Love Is Not Enough’
On their 10th studio album, the immortal metalcore legends go to war with the abyss.
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Recommended Album: Angel Du$t – ‘COLD 2 THE TOUCH’
All fire while being the epitome of cool, the Baltimore experimental hardcore band are reshaping the ever-expanding scene in the outside on their sixth LP.
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Recommended Album: Mandy, Indiana – ‘URGH’
The second album from the Manchester experimental industrial band is a delightful, delirious — and more pointedly, angry — maximum capacity in processing the current hellscape and transmitting it into a kinetic rage rave.
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