Album Reviews

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  Remi Wolf's Energetic 'Big Ideas' Is Full to the Brim

  PUBLISHED Jul 11, 2024

  What's considered a "big idea"? According to Remi Wolf, "love, lust, anger, fantasies, harsh realities, vices, low lows and high highs" ...

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  Cassandra Jenkins Searches the Cosmos on 'My Light, My Destroyer'

  PUBLISHED Jul 11, 2024

  There is a careful balance between wry insight and open-heartedness in Cassandra Jenkins's songs. As on her very well-received 2021 album...

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  Truck Violence Plumb the Loudness of the Outskirts on 'Violence'

  PUBLISHED Jul 3, 2024

  There's something fascinating about Canada's prairie towns. The ghostly howl of the wind, the whispering of the grass, mist gathering ...

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  Kristin Witko's 'A Course in Miracles' Is a Mirror and a Telescope

  PUBLISHED Jul 3, 2024

  "We're grotesque, but we're feeling right at home." Those were the closing words Kristin Witko spoke on her 2019 debut album, the refracted...

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  pHoenix Pagliacci Is Thrillingly Multifaceted on 'Dichotomy'

  PUBLISHED Jul 2, 2024

  'Dichotomy' is the perfect title for pHoenix Pagliacci's new solo album; the Toronto MC and singer (known for formidable work in groups like...

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  Camila Cabello's 'C,XOXO' Nearly Sticks the Landing

  PUBLISHED Jul 2, 2024

  It would be easy to pick on Camila Cabello. The painfully obvious rebrand she underwent for her fourth solo album conjures images of ...

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  Guided by Voices' 'Strut of Kings' Is a Little Wobbly

  PUBLISHED Jun 27, 2024

  Like sands in an hourglass, so are the albums of Guided by Voices. While a handful of their 25 albums released since their reformation ...

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  Hiatus Kaiyote's 'Love Heart Cheat Code' Is the Future Soul JavaScript

  PUBLISHED Jun 27, 2024

  I don't know how much 'Love Heart Cheat Code' — the fourth studio album from Australian quartet Hiatus Kaiyote — is actually meant to take ...