Category: Album Reviews
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Recommended Album: Kelly Lee Owens – ‘Dreamstate’
On her fourth album, the Welsh producer unlocks those sensations we can only hope to feel when we close our eyes, and brings them vividly to us in our waking life.
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Recommended Album: Beth Gibbons – ‘Lives Outgrown’
The debut solo album from the Portishead frontwoman is the life’s work of an artist who has chosen to enchant death with a sparkle of her own dark magic rather than let it shake her.
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Recommended Album: Spiral XP – ‘I Wish I Was a Rat’
Existential overcast and partly sunny skies coexists within the same woozy atmosphere and the loud pop of the Seattle rockers’ debut album.
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Recommended Album: High Vis – ‘Guided Tour’
On their third album, the London melodic hardcore and post-punk band gleams through the greyscale and sounds more ready than ever to face strife head-on.
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Recommended Album: The Cure – ‘Songs of a Lost World’
Following a period of creative dormancy, the goth rock pioneers return to swallow the world whole all over again with their 16th studio album.
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Recommended Album: ELUCID – ‘REVELATOR’
The burly, muscular fist behind Armand Hammer lets himself off the leash to combat this world is dog with all fire and fury.
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Recommended Album: Regional Justice Center – ‘FREEDOM SWEET FREEDOM’
The extreme hardcore band of Ian Shelton and his brother Max Hellesto breaks free and ponders if the debt paid to society truly ever does go away.
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Recommended Album: Sabrina Carpenter – ‘Short n’ Sweet’
Carpenter’s starmaking affair refocuses what pop music should be with gloss, unabashed innuendo, and big personality pulled off with a perfectionist entertainment value.
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Recommended Album: Elias Rønnenfelt – ‘Heavy Glory’
The Iceage frontman steps out properly to his own swagger and beat with country and Americana influences full of grit.
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Recommended EP: Greg Mendez – ‘First Time / Alone’
A short but necessary reminder from the Philly songwriter that the simplicity of earnest melancholia laid bare in well-crafted melody is going to find its way to the right people.
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