Category: Album Reviews
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Recommended Album: Beauty Pill – ‘Blue Period’
Within the remastered listens of early material by the cult favorite D.C. punk band are the blueprints etched by an artist challenging the norms in varying voices, non-linear patterns and rhythm, all nuanced in definition.
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Recommended Album: Fucked Up – ‘One Day’
Recorded in 24 hours, the Toronto hardcore-punk band’s sixth LP returns to their early intuitions of a more primal sound while also not throwing caution to creative risks either.
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Recommended Album: White Reaper – ‘Asking for a Ride’
The band’s latest arrives at a perfect point in the guitar-based alternative resurgence when punk, hardcore, and garage rock are on the way back up and favorable to everything in their strengths.
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Recommended EP: One Step Closer – ‘Songs for the Willow’
The three-song EP batters through what the band has been wrestling with on an emotional level since setting the existential of life to fury on their 2021 breakthrough debut, ‘This Place You Know’.
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Recommended Album: MIKE – ‘Beware of the Monkey’
Dazed breakthroughs are laid over a masterclass cool collage of R&B, funk, soul that feels like the NYC rhymer is allowing himself to breathe in fully with everything he carries in his heavy heart.
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Recommended Album: SZA – ‘SOS’
SZA zeroes in on her singular finesse in modernist R&B with hot takes on the holy trinity in ultra-honesty of sex, heartbreak, and esteem on her long-awaited sophomore LP.
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Recommended EP: Mr Twin Sister – ‘Upright and Even’
There’s nothing still or symmetrical about this extended play from the NYC avant pop band, even if by their own titular definition.
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Recommended Album: Soul Blind – ‘Feel It All Around’
Call the debut LP from the Hudson Valley rockers (heavy)gazing into the abyss, but in this case, very much doing the most to not let the abyss gaze back at you…
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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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