Category: Album Reviews
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Recommended Album: Nuclear Daisies – ‘First Taste of Heaven’
The debut album from the experimental Austin trio is a celebration of life’s mystery through a colorful DMT-soaked ’90s dream-pop, big beat, industrial, and electronic new age trip.
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Recommended Album: DJ Haram – ‘Beside Myself’
On her debut album, the Brooklyn-based producer keeps your attention fixed, be it fraught in terror or thirst-trapped in thought provocatively.
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Recommended Album: Clipse – ‘Let God Sort Em Out’
The return of Pusha T and Malice bests modern rap at its own game with even more stone cold finesse in skill and squad allyship.
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Recommended EP: Nuovo Testamento – ‘Trouble’
The latest EP from the Los Angeles trio is a love letter to late ’80s and early ’90s freestyle and house-pop that acknowledges the dark and heartbreak of it all in pure euphoric form.
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Recommended Album: Nick Sylvester – ‘Stereo Music for Breakbeats and Samplers’
The producer and composer’s musique concrète desires no need for any punctuation beyond the question or exclamation mark in his pursuit of bringing the beat to its breaking point.
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Recommended Album: Alex G – ‘Headlights’
On his major label debut, Alex G’s 10th studio album merges him with ease down a long road of success as one of indie rock’s best accidental success stories.
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Recommended Album: Hotline TNT – ‘Raspberry Moon’
In acknowledging their own growth as one of indie rock’s most well put-together nuanced sounds, Hotline TNT shoot for the ‘Moon’ and hit the mark on their sophomore effort.
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Recommended Album: Lifeguard – ‘Ripped and Torn’
The debut album from the young Chicago indie punk trio overdelivers in leaving little behind the surface of their unglossed, raw energy.
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Recommended EP: Cosmic Joke – ‘Forced Perspective’
As the world continues to burn down again for an umpteenth summer, at least we’ve got five great new reasons to soundtrack it with a skate jam into Hell with the SoCal hardcore punks’ new EP, ‘Forced Perspective’.
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Recommended Album: Dummy – ‘Bubbelibrium DLC’
New characters and levels in sound unlocked, the Los Angeles experimental noise-pop band’s idea of a remix album is to build new worlds within their own while helping cultivate others’.
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