Category: Album Reviews
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Recommended Album: Club Night – ‘Joy Coming Down’
On their long-awaited sophomore follow-up, the Oakland experimental rockers embrace the tiny changes with big feelings we make along this Earthly journey.
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Recommended Album: Model/Actriz – ‘Pirouette’
The Brooklyn band’s real, multi-dimensional self as loud, ostentatiously noisy dance rock and experimental performance art finally comes out to the whole world on their sophomore effort.
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Recommended EP: Wishy – ‘Planet Popstar’
On their latest EP, the Indianapolis indie rockers venture into a bright, blue horizon of hi-fi alternative pop-rock that doesn’t make you want to come back down from it.
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Recommended Album: Superheaven – ‘Superheaven’
The return effort from the Doylestown heavy-gazers stakes its claim as a big rock album with impact under their own terms and timeline.
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Recommended Album: Deafheaven – ‘Lonely People with Power’
The sixth studio album and major label debut is Deafheaven’s black metal magnum opus.
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Recommended Album: Scowl – ‘Are We All Angels’
Scowl prove that the scene’s purest angels are never the ones who let the surrounding noise define them, but rather dare to let their wings burn by flying nearest to the sun of their own ambition.
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Recommended EP: BALMORA – ‘Prologue’ EP
This is just the start of the first chapter being written by the glorious Connecticut hardcore metal band…
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Recommended Album: JIVEBOMB – ‘ETHEREAL’
The Baltimore band’s phoenix ascent cracks a difficult-to-decode style that mediates both of hardcore’s current directional limbs on their debut full-length.
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Recommended Album: SPELLLING – ‘Portrait of My Heart’
Chrystia Cabral’s outsider nature is her alternative rock star superpower that makes her latest shape-shift an even more inventive take on the genre than anyone else could attempt.
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Recommended Album: YHWH Nailgun – ’45 Pounds’
The debut album from the Brooklyn noise band is a busy disruption designed with pop and rock subversion in mind, proving the rest of what’s being created out there has no reason to be as obvious or predictable as it is.
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