Category: Album Reviews
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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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Recommended Album: FKA twigs – ‘EUSEXUA’
FKA twigs’ third LP is outwardly indulgent in a prismatic array of pleasure, immersing you in a late night fever dream that sees, hears, and touches its theme through constant aural stimulation.
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Recommended Album: Open Head – ‘What Is Success’
The sophomore effort from the Hudson Valley experimental rock band is where mortal concepts and that which are cosmically seized by nature come to a head.
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Recommended Album: Ela Minus – ‘DÍA’
Minus’ “bright music for dark times” techno coda is a shield of radiant energy to see through anything sinister in this life experience.
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Recommended Album: Bad Bunny – ‘DeBÍ TiRAR MáS FOToS’
Benito Antonio Martínez Ocasio regrounds himself into Puerto Rico’s storied musical roots while merging them into the dance steps of his modern pop influence.
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