Category: Album Reviews
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Recommended Album: beabadoobee – ‘Beatopia’
Swirling in bittersweet sugar and crystalline highs, beabadoobee comes into her own with her sophomore album.
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Recommended Album: Carlos Truly – ‘Not Mine’
The Ava Luna guitarist professes an nth degree of synesthesiac sophisticate taste in R&B, funky guitars, and experimental pop and jazz flourishes on his first solo album.
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Recommended Album: Moor Mother – ‘Jazz Codes’
Further meditating on history, ‘Jazz Codes’ unlocks the past’s truths through Moor Mother’s singular futurism.
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Recommended Album: CANDY – ‘Heaven Is Here’
The heavy music makers take extremities from hardcore and metal into account in their search for a so-called salvation with intensity refined.
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Recommended Album: Zola Jesus – ‘ARKHON’
With her sixth studio album, Nika Rosa Danilova creates her most new age album yet in its spiritual meditations through music.
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Recommended Album: Bartees Strange – ‘Farm to Table’
The sophomore effort from the indie songwriter on the rise seeks out bigger spaces, and fills them accordingly without letting it stunt his come-up from his roots.
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Recommended Album: Pictoria Vark – ‘The Parts I Dread’
The songs throughout the Iowa City-based songwriter’s full-length debut channel what might initially seem like significantly smaller moments against a vastness packed in with descript reflections on adulting, relationships, and moving around personal hells.
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Recommended Album: Sweet Pill – ‘Where the Heart Is’
The Philly emotive indie-punk quintet’s debut LP shows off both a muscularity gained from its members reps in the hardcore scene, but also a pop fluency.
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Recommended Album: Horsegirl – ‘Versions of Modern Performance’
Every generation deserves their own homage to the greats while making a statement of their own, and the debut album from the young Chicago indie rock trio is their own way of doing just that.
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Recommended EP: awakebutstillinbed & for your health – ‘hymns for the scorned’
A split between the two rising screamo bands hints at how both have not only burned down former walls, but are now building towers with their furious elegies.
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