Category: Album Reviews
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Recommended Album: Marnie Stern – ‘The Comeback Kid’
On her first album in a decade, the experimental guitar dynamo comes back to this Earth inspired to change the shape of rock by filling its voids.
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Recommended Album: Hotline TNT – ‘Carousel’
The Brooklyn noise-pop band’s sophomore effort approaches this moment in shoegaze-ambiguous songwriting as if they’ve picked this moment to finally show off their secrets in front of the world.
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Recommended EP: Cruel – ‘Common Rituals’
As if doused in kerosene, the young Chicago indie rockers lament the grinding daily malaise and burn through every point of pent up frustration on their debut EP.
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Recommended Album: Reverend Kristin Michael Hayter – ‘SAVED!’
A transcendental beginning of a new book of revelations written by the former Lingua Ignota adorned by her own voice’s mercy, creaky instrumentation, and raptures of glossolalia.
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Recommended Album: Mil-Spec – ‘Secret Passage’
On their sophomore LP, the Toronto melodic hardcore rockers level up the emotional adrenaline when staying several steps ahead of succumbing to nihilistic pitfalls.
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Recommended Album: The Serfs – ‘Half Eaten By Dogs’
The third and breakthrough album from the Cincinnati experimental punk trio leads you into a realm equally heathenistic as it is heavenly.
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Recommended Album: L’Rain – ‘I Killed Your Dog’
This life is never just black or white, dark nor light, and on ‘I Killed Your Dog’, love’s macabre as well the betterment of understanding the self’s relation to it all exists through Taja Cheek’s experimental impulses.
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Recommended Album: Cupid & Psyche – ‘Romantic Music’
A beautiful hue of gazey guitar-pop fit for tragedy that begins where the story ends from the former Abe Vigoda members.
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Recommended Album: Armand Hammer – ‘We Buy Diabetic Test Strips’
The sixth studio effort from the NYC underground rap duo flips the script and brings discomfort straight to the forefront of what they’re doing, with no distractions from the grim of it all.
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Recommended Album: Full Blown Meltdown – ‘Mollify’
With a meticulous understanding of the DIY emo and punk multiverse, the pessimism which Will Green indulges to critical mass has never felt more like a sick form of relief as it does here on ‘Mollify’.
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