Category: Album Reviews
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Recommended EP: Spiral XP & TV Star – ‘TVXP’
A solid presentation of Seattle’s next wave of underground rock where each band has inspired one another in true community form.
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Recommended EP: BIB – ‘BIBLICAL’
The noisy Omaha hardcore punk band sound as big as a black hole and churn out their most cohesive statement effort yet on their latest extended play.
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Recommended Album: The Smile – ‘Wall of Eyes’
The sophomore effort from Thom Yorke, Jonny Greenwood and Tom Skinner transfixes their sound into cosmic jazz rock and heightens new senses in their body.
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Recommended Album: glass beach – ‘plastic death’
The long-awaited sophomore effort from the Los Angeles fifth wave trailblazers is a hyper-conscious display of the philosophically personal within a vast ocean of experimentation.
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Recommended Album: PACKS – ‘Melt the Honey’
The Toronto indie rock band led by Madeline Link are in their element when allowing natural inspiration to organically flow through them on their third and best album yet.
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Recommended Album: Infant Island – ‘Obsidian Wreath’
As the perpetual dark of existence nears, the Fredericksburg screamo band’s third studio album creates life from death and offers up your light of protection.
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Recommended EP: fleshwater – ‘Sounds of Grieving’
In mourning their creative pasts, fleshwater enter a new phase of life on this extended play which reimagines songs from their 2020 demo and breakthrough LP.
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Recommended Album: AKAI SOLO – ‘Only The Strong Remain’ / ‘Verticality///Singularity’
An ambitious doubling of LPs from the Brooklyn underground rapper is a mind warp that coexists symbolically between the thresholds of pitch black recesses and a place of light.
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Recommended EP: Cora Monroe – ‘Cora Monroe’
The debut EP from integral members of Western Mass’ early Aughts emo-core scene is a wise vision of crafting emo, post-hardcore, and grungy alt-rock through an earnest labor of love.
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Recommended Album: HEALTH – ‘RAT WARS’
Industrial star power sounds great on this unexpected long-game fete from the veteran industrial noise rockers.
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