Category: Album Reviews
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Recommended Album: terraplana – ‘natural’
On their sophomore effort, the Brazilian rockers offer a change of organic substance from the usual shoegaze trappings by collecting the air’s static rather than dispersing it.
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Recommended Album: Panda Bear – ‘Sinister Grief’
Breaking free from morbidity’s shackles, Noah Lennox’s 8th album comes full circle in not only celebrating his artistic life, but that of its extended limbs and new waves borne from his influence.
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Recommended EP: SPY – ‘Seen Enough’
The latest EP from Bay Area hardcore punk band further embraces their ugliest instincts to match the corrosive energy of a world free-falling apart around us.
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Recommended Album: Cloakroom – ‘Last Leg of the Human Table’
The post-shoegaze explorer’s fourth album is a concentrated effort to reground themselves onto more terrestrial surroundings, and at that, realizing their most concrete-sounding form to date.
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Recommended Album: MIKE – ‘Showbiz!’
Some of the greatest stories in entertainment burnout by going to the well one too many times with the same plot, but the New York rapper is ensuring that doesn’t happen by keeping his sounding fresh on his 10th LP.
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Recommended EP: Glixen – ‘quiet pleasures’
The second EP from the fast-rising Phoenix shoegaze band feels like an early taste of their wider screen ambitions coming together strongly.
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Recommended Album: Anxious – ‘Bambi’
A big swing from the Connecticut melodic punk band on their sophomore effort results in an instant scene classic that masters the art of adulting.
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Recommended Album: Horsegirl – ‘Phonetics On and On’
The radical sophomore effort from the Chicago indie rock trio renders a wilder joy by eliminating much of the noise and instead embracing space.
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Recommended Album: Drop Nineteens – ‘1991″
The Boston band’s lost album is a critical document in the evolution of American shoegaze.
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Recommended Album: FACS – ‘Wish Defense’
The reflection off a figure’s outlines are something augmented, yet more truly accurate in shape through the Chicago art rockers’ tightened electrical wire on LP6.
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