Category: Album Reviews
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Recommended Album: Slowdive – ‘everything is alive’
More in touch with the physical form without departing the cosmos fully, the seminal shoegaze band’s second post-reunion album evolves what its sound can be.
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Recommended Album: Ratboys – ‘The Window’
On the fourth studio effort from the Chicago post-country rockers, the band captures the thrills of being alive and get their flowers.
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Recommended Album: Mary Jane Dunphe – ‘Stage of Love’
The fascinating debut album from the NYC-based songwriter smears feelings of forlorn across heavy brush strokes of ’80s synth-pop and wild lines of amorphous guitar rock that singe through the listen’s harnessing of self-preservation energy.
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Recommended Album: Fiddlehead – ‘Death Is Nothing to Us’
On their third LP, the Boston post-hardcore rockers are barreling harder than ever into the void, doing their most to avoid it, and making every second count for us all.
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Recommended Album: Shamir – ‘Homo Anxietatum’
On his 9th album, the songwriting polymath arrives at a fully-realized point in his story full of the pop-adjacent and counter-counter nuanced charm that has come to define his sound ever since flipping off guaranteed industry plant status.
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Recommended Album: Big Bliss – ‘Vital Return’
Listening to the Brooklyn band’s sophomore LP is like discovering a secret door to a spiritual experience connecting emotions to memories and an undying effortless coolness in the sounds it recalls.
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Recommended Album: Strange Ranger – ‘Pure Music’
In its most purest form, Strange Ranger’s ‘Pure Music’ is sensory and sonic plasticity whose form may have been sourced from a creator, but ultimately is defined by those who come into contact with it.
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Recommended Album: Restraining Order – ‘Locked In Time’
Consider the Western Mass and Connecticut-based hardcore band’s sophomore effort free therapy in how to let the bad times roll.
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Recommended Album: Temple of Angels – ‘Endless Pursuit’
On the Austin-based dream-pop band’s debut LP, they push through turbulent, psychedelic gazey swells where they discover an alternative world outlined by a rush of new-found lucidity.
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Recommended EP: Lifeguard – ‘Dressed In Trenches’
The young Chicago rockers’ first EP for Matador Records reps the next generation of a community not only in a state of evolution, but a hungry desire to build new branches from it.
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