Category: Album Reviews
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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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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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