Category: Album Reviews
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Recommended Album: Oneida – ‘Expensive Air’
The Brooklyn art-rock cornerstones’ 17th album leads you down their uncanny path where even familiar terrain eventually becomes consumed into their rich, unrivaled soil.
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Recommended Album: SPEED – ‘ONLY ONE MODE’
The answer to hardcore’s current sea change, the debut album from the Sydney hardcore band hears them arriving full force, hulking from the pit.
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Recommended Album: A Country Western – ‘Life on the Lawn’
The Philly indie rockers’ unassuming sound that’s neither hear nor there on the amperage spectrum makes for a unique view steps away from home.
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Recommended Album: Brijean – ‘Macro’
As we are, Brijean’s rhythmic pop art projection is varied yet intertwined — the complexities of being absorbed by the vortex made into a fun delirium.
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Recommended Album: Firewalker – ‘Hell Bent’
Mastering the art of pyrotechnic hardcore, the sophomore effort from the elusive Boston scene heroes can’t be contained or ignored.
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Recommended EP: Praise – ‘Coming Up For Air’
Instead of chasing dreams, Praise are paying attention to the moment here in sparked melodic hardcore anthem.
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Recommended Album: Waxahatchee – ‘Tigers Blood’
The sixth album from Katie Crutchfield’s band peaks her craft of hard-earned introspective conversations and invites you to engage with her word in a lively charm.
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Recommended Album: Russian Baths – ‘Mirror’
For those who prefer their rock alternatives with equal risk and strangeness as much as there is a clear reflection of its sound, the sophomore effort from the Brooklyn art rockers sees you in the dark.
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Recommended Album: Shellac – ‘To All Trains’
The seminal Chicago noiseniks’ conclusive thought could not have been written as a better epitaph if this was the way the universe decided to have its last laugh with you.
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Recommended Album: One Step Closer – ‘All You Embrace’
Through punctuated emotional intensity, the Wilkes-Barre melodic hardcore band embraces the hereafter of a quarter-life crisis in anthem.
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