Category: Album Reviews
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Recommended Album: Gilla Band – ‘Pugnello’
The fourth LP from the Dublin avant-punks, in all of its catastrophe on a personal and cultural level, is wholly that of the band’s lived experience and one that stands out boldly.
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Recommended Album: Dummy – ‘do you love the color of the sky?’
With art having survived centuries as the medium for getting important questions in front of its surrounding culture, the Los Angeles experimental noise-pop band’s most creatively ambitious album yet asks these of you while being beyond the atmosphere of it.
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Recommended Album: Cameron Winter – ‘Live at Carnegie Hall’
Let the Geese guyRec cook at Carnegie Hall, as his live performance at the historic NYC music venue is a reality meant to transcend mediums regardless of how it finds you.
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Recommended Album: HAYWIRE – ‘I DON’T WANNA SAY GOODBYE’
Wicked fun hardcore born out of pure intentions, if you accept HAYWIRE’s major label debut at face value for what it is, you’ve just found yourself the scene’s most earnest album of the year.
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Recommended Album: This Is Lorelei – ‘The Singer in My Band’
This Is Lorelei… now, as Nate Amos turns his attention fully toward a lived-in, rustic alt-country tunefulness with its cracks smoothed over in the studio on his sophomore LP and Matador debut.
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Recommended Album: Turnover – ‘Down On Earth’
The multi-faceted rockers’ 6th album is their most extraterrestrial affair yet — one in which their world of beyondness and that which they inhabit collide through yet another seasonal shift in their sound.
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Recommended Album: The Drin – ‘I Lost My Way For Centuries’
The fifth album from the Cinci avant-punk collective is a double LP sonic exploration of pushing everything that was once known to a new mysterious limit.
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Recommended EP: PUREST FORM – ‘RESISTANCE”
The second EP from the Los Angeles trio doubles up on their defense artillery of hardcore industrial rave music and taps into survival instincts to thwart the ongoing swan dive of humanity by a system set to destroy.
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Recommended Album: Dinosaur Jr. – ‘There Near’
In short, it’s a Dinosaur Jr. album. And that’s not something to take for granted.