Category: Album Reviews
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Recommended EP: Greg Mendez – ‘First Time / Alone’
A short but necessary reminder from the Philly songwriter that the simplicity of earnest melancholia laid bare in well-crafted melody is going to find its way to the right people.
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Recommended Album: Touché Amoré – ‘Spiral In A Straight Line’
Though the Los Angeles post-hardcore band may continue to wrestle with their own perceived flaws, there are none to be found on the surface of their sound.
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Recommended Album: Balance and Composure – ‘with you in spirit’
Thank god — or whatever is out there pulling the strings of this chaos — for making Balance and Composure believe in their own darkness again.
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Recommended Album: blue zero – ‘colder shade blue’
For those who wish to be tranquilized by the outer limits of guitar rock, the debut album from the Marbled Eye’s vocalist is a strange, yet familiar place you can go to get there.
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Recommended Album: Chat Pile – ‘Cool World’
In which the Oklahoma City noise rockers lean into the role of the biggest, benevolent bestial god at the top of the food chain who enjoys toying with its prey right before the slaughter.
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Recommended Album: Alan Sparhawk – ‘White Roses, My God’
An awe-striking revelation of something inside the Low frontman that confronts the heaviest of tragedy without relenting to evolve new paths forward.
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Recommended Album: Wild Pink – ‘Dulling the Horn’
A twist of fate in life’s journey is one that has the Brooklyn indie rockers’ sounding more alive in a lived-in reality for it.
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Recommended Album: MJ Lenderman – ‘Manning Fireworks’
Country-smoked indie rock for anyone on a losing streak, in good company with the Asheville rocker’s slouched wordsmith ways.
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Recommended Album: mo dotti – ‘opaque’
Bending their instruments as the shoegaze gods intended, the Los Angeles band’s nuance of noise and pop radiates no matter the medium of melody.
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Recommended Album: Charly Bliss – ‘FOREVER’
Premium grade pop that hits you just right in the moment and sticks to your heart from that point on from the chronic underdogs.
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