Category: Album Reviews
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Recommended EP: Weeping Icon – ‘Ocelli’
The latest EP from the Brooklyn noise-punk band tells the story of 2020 in three parts that begins in anger and ends with them throwing that dumpster fire right into a bottomless pit.
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Recommended Album: fleshwater – ‘We’re Not Here to Be Loved’
The debut album from members of Vein.fm and MIRSY bleeds a reverence for pioneering ‘90s alternative rock while also looking beyond the timeline of that era.
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Recommended Album: Special Interest – ‘Endure’
The sophomore follow-up from the New Orleans punk band is a space where many sounds of rage coexist and express themselves in the same, single energy to celebrate whoever it invites.
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Recommended EP: Glitterer – ‘Fantasy Four’
Dedicated to Riley Gale of Power Trip and Iron Age’s Wade Allison, this EP taps into a deeper side within Glitterer’s psyche while asking bigger questions.
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Recommended Album: AKAI SOLO – ‘Spirit Roaming’
The first release in collaboration with Backwoodz Studioz may be the Brooklyn’s rhymer’s most audibly compelling yet across a spectrum of color-and-mood-immersed production.
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Recommended Album: Inclination – ‘Unaltered Perspective’
The Kentucky straight edge hardcore five-piece’s debut full-length delivers intentional intensity that hits the core of our everyday existences.
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Recommended Album: Backxwash – ‘HIS HAPPINESS SHALL COME FIRST EVEN THOUGH WE ARE SUFFERING’
The final reckoning for the noise-rap artist’s trilogy goes an additional layer deep in its therapeutic catharsis.
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Recommended Album: dazy – ‘OUTOFBODY’
A bite in big decibel and big anthemry with feedback-piled power-pop-punk that’s an absolute blast of a debut album from the hardcore scene songwriter.
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Recommended Album: Show Me the Body – ‘Trouble the Water’
There may be no dam to keep Show Me the Body all-consuming fire inside one vessel, but the Brooklyn trio’s third LP is the closest thing to an encapsulation of that.
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Recommended Album: Dry Cleaning – ‘Stumpwork’
The sophomore follow-up from the South London post-punks bends the sharper angles of its predecessor into a brain stew to compliment its deeper thinks.
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