Category: Album Reviews
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Recommended Album: Wednesday – ‘Bleeds’
In which Karly Hartzman carves out the faceted styles within her dirtbag hipster-goth Americana niche in greater detail with a meticulous bend of the knife.
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Recommended Album: End It – ‘Wrong Side of Heaven’
With their debut album, the Baltimore crew are on the right side of everything that continues to make hardcore one of the most exciting scenes happening right now.
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Recommended Album: Winter – ‘Adult Romantix’
On her best album yet, the dream-pop songwriter shows how starting a familiar story all over again still provides a full-tilt emotional roller coaster when you look at it through a different lens.
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Recommended Album: Dijon – ‘Baby’
The Baltimore songwriter’s sophomore effort is an idiosyncratic new blueprint for alternative R&B that’s always in flux and thriving in the moment.
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Recommended Album: fleshwater – ‘2000: In Search Of The Endless Sky’
The big bang moment on the Massachusetts’ space rockers’ timeline arrives not a second too soon or too late to explode their sound with deep impact.
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Recommended Album: Earl Sweatshirt – ‘Live Laugh Love’
Earl Sweatshirt’s fifth full-length album confirms what we already knew, except now, it’s as clear as day: he’s one of the best in the game.
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Recommended Album: Marissa Nadler – ‘New Radiations’
A definitive stasis of ethereal folk that transports you right into Nadler’s supernatural world where the music can’t be heard without her former ghosts coming back to life.
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Recommended Album: Jobber – ‘Jobber To The Stars’
The debut album from the Brooklyn rockers ushers in a 2010s DIY indie rock scene revival with more muscularity and bigger personality behind its riffs.
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Recommended Album: Deftones – ‘private music’
More influential than ever, the alt-metal-gaze band’s 10th studio album conquers the art of satiating the highest tiers of arenas in peak stereo clarity form.
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Recommended Album: Water From Your Eyes – ‘It’s A Beautiful Place’
On their big, surprising new album, the Brooklyn art-pop duo translate the weight of the world into heavier, guitar-based indie rock of their own interpretive design.
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