Category: Album Reviews
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Recommended Album: Bruiser and Bicycle – ‘Holy Red Wagon’
The sounds behind the Albany band’s debut album trip psychedelically in color swirls, a bash of freak-folk implosions, and noise pop where the journey is meant to ascend its way skyward.
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Recommended Album: GEL – ‘Only Constant’
Gel’s long-awaited debut LP is a reminder that hardcore is and will always be through and through a community-building effort centered around working through the heavy shit together in unapologetically feral fashion.
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Recommended Album: Navy Blue – ‘Ways of Knowing‘
Bigger things to come feel like they’re a natural fit for the Brooklyn rapper’s level up from the underground and first album for Def Jam.
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Recommended Album: The Van Pelt – ‘Artisans & Merchants’
The seminal emo-indie rocker’s first new album in 26 years is a road map for any young band willing to listen.
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Recommended Album: Fever Ray – ‘Radical Romantics’
The strobing frequencies and experimental pop magic Karin Dreijer sings through on her latest standout from Fever Ray are merely the medium in which we realize that same energy exists within us, too.
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Recommended Album: Yves Tumor – ‘Praise a Lord Who Chews but Which Does Not Consume; (Or Simply, Hot Between Worlds)’
Yves Tumor is like the god its album title celebrates as they synergizes dark fantasy, sex, lust and love, and the anxieties of today’s socio-political landscape into a new corner of their multiverse.
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Recommended Album: R.J.F. – ‘Going Strange’
Left up to CEREMONY frontman’s own devices, we bare witness to the very strange world that lives within his headspace channeled through a music medium that’s equivocally peculiar on his debut solo effort.
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Recommended Album: MSPAINT – ‘Post-American’
The power of the mindset busts through walls, finds its people, and touches grass on the other side through the Hattiesburg punk band’s debut full-length.
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Recommended Album: Zulu – ‘A New Tomorrow’
A story that’s been writing itself far beyond the birth of punk music and from the dawn of mankind, fighting for visibility and credit while innovating the future, courtesy of the rising Los Angeles hardcore band.
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Recommended Album: Dougie Poole – ‘The Rainbow Wheel of Death’
Good grief. The Brooklyn cosmic country songwriter invites the grim reaper for a drink on his third album.
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