Category: Album Reviews
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Recommended Album: Ratboys – ‘Singin’ to an Empty Chair’
LP 6 from the country-rustic indie rockers sits with its refined thoughts without much distraction. allowing you to process deep feelings at your own cozy comfort.
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Recommended EP: Pelican – ‘Ascending’
On this compact, barreling extended play, the resurrection of the post-metal institution continues to thrive on blurring the lines between heavy music matter.
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Recommended Album: Neurosis – ‘An Undying Love For A Burning World’
Now fronted by Isis vocalist Aaron Turner, the synergy of forces in a resurgent Neurosis rains down in a way you can’t unsee on the return from the post-metal legends.
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listen to these: Avalon Emerson & The Charm, Charli XCX, Hilary Duff & Robyn
Recommended highlights from across the alternative pop spectrum with the latest albums by Avalon Emerson & The Charm, Charli XCX, Hilary Duff, and Robyn.
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Recommended EP: Lifeguard – “Ultra Violence” / “Appetite”
A wild, weird, unassumingly cool experiment with no rules or concrete expectations, this maxi single from the Chicago noisy punk firestarters leaves you piqued for whatever comes next.
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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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