Category: Album Reviews
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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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Recommended Album: Narrow Head – ‘Moments of Clarity’
The collective alternative energy on the Houston band’s third LP sends their rock even higher without letting go of the heaviness.
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Recommended Album: bar italia – ‘Tracey Denim’
The touchstones from indie rock and post-punk past are there in bar italia’s every steps, but at the same time, there’s an art of vanishing into it all.
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Recommended Album: Militarie Gun – ‘Life Under The Gun’
On the heels of three excellent extended plays, this is where Militarie Gun hinge upon perfecting their tick-tick-boom formula of heavy punk-pop and chonky riffed jams that accentuate the post-pandemic existential vibe.
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Recommended Album: SPY – ‘Satisfaction’
The Bay Area hardcore punk band paint the picture of the kind of contempt for society and its villains which they band gnash their teeth into on their debut full-length.
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Recommended Album: Vulture Feather – ‘Liminal Fields’
Following a near-death experience, former Wilderness guitarist Colin McCann reemerges from the ether with a new band that connects with naturalistic art-rock.
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Recommended Album: Water From Your Eyes – ‘Everyone’s Crushed’
The Brooklyn experimental pop duo know their art need not be perfect or gloss, though they certainly use that to their advantage here in finding the right consumer who considers their sound to be something no one else could create in this timeline.
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Recommended Album: Mandy, Indiana – ‘i’ve seen a way’
This nocturnal dance into the noise of the void becomes all the more widescreen on the Manchester dance-noise band’s debut full-length.
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Recommended Album: DRAIN – ‘LIVING PROOF’
At the core of the Santa Cruz thrashers’ sophomore effort is a wrecking ball determination to be the best self and “fuck this shit” energy turned up hard.
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