Category: Album Reviews
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Recommended Album: Stuck – ‘Optimizer’
On their sophomore LP, the Chicago post-punk trio add some healthy, noise rock-hard muscle mass to their frame to contend with the decline in humanity, and come out as the best version of themselves in spite of it all.
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Recommended Album: Converge – ‘Hum of Hurt’
With their second album of 2026, the Boston metalcore heroes turn all of the pain of existence into a noisy, raw superpower.
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Recommended Album: Aldous Harding – ‘Train on the Island’
An artist who resembles no other, the New Zealand avant songwriter’s fifth album again chameleons her sound into something that can simply be defined as very Aldousian.
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Recommended Album: Friko – ‘Something Worth Waiting For’
On their sophomore effort, the Chicago indie rockers do their most to honor youth’s passing with the kind of sincere grandeur that at one point in time defined the sounds of generational optimism.
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Recommended Album: Boards of Canada- ‘Inferno’
The Scottish electronic duo’s fifth LP finds them entrenched into our ultra-fucked dystopian digital vortex, contextualizing it as a hypnotizing mirage of aural pleasures.
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Recommended EP: Marbled Eye – ‘Forever’
The latest EP from the Oakland post-punks is an overdue exorcism not just for the genre, but in thought violence for the times.
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Recommended Album: American Football – ‘American Football’
For an album so centered on inner darkness, the indie emo rockers capture the beauty of it all with sparkling awe and grandeur.
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Recommended Album: Carla dal Forno – ‘Confession’
Alongside the nighttime, we become the keepers of the Australian experimental pop songwriter’s secrets on her nocturnally radiant fifth LP.
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Recommended Album: Fire-Toolz – ‘Lavender Networks’
A true offering in fearless singularity, the Warp debut from the experimental electronic noise artist builds many worlds while connecting them through one universe.
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Recommended Album: Basement – ‘WIRED’
The English melodic hardcore rockers’ return LP is a testament to waiting the odds out in their favor and collectively becoming a bigger energy than ever.