Album Reviews

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  Anthesis, Cell Press, Greber and Botfly Try New Things on Their Four-Way Split Album

  PUBLISHED Jun 18, 2021

  Four very different heavy bands in Anthesis, Cell Press, Greber and Botfly have come together on a new split album. Even though each band h...

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  Toronto Punks PRETTYBOY Showcase Their Range on Dual EPs 'BECKY' and 'DARLENE'

  PUBLISHED Jun 18, 2021

  Somewhere sonically between Pissed Jeans and the Coathangers lies Toronto-based punks PRETTYBOY, who showcase their full range on dual EPs...

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  Kings of Convenience Return at the Perfect Time on 'Peace or Love'

  PUBLISHED Jun 18, 2021

  With each year that passed since Kings of Convenience's 2009 album, Declaration of Dependence, their idiosyncratic brand of acoustic folk f...

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  Dean Blunt Returns to Avant-Pop Directness on 'BLACK METAL 2'

  PUBLISHED Jun 17, 2021

  About halfway through BLACK METAL 2, some 30 seconds into "SEMTEX," Dean Blunt cranks up the delay on a single vocal line. The effect situa...

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  Emanuel's 'ALT THERAPY' Is an R&B Journey Through Healing

  PUBLISHED Jun 17, 2021

  Soothing, euphoric and completely therapeutic, Emanuel's debut album ALT THERAPY is appropriately titled and even more true in sound. The L...

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  Backxwash Makes Rage Beautiful on 'I Lie Here Buried with My Rings and My Dresses'

  PUBLISHED Jun 17, 2021

  Following her Polaris Music Prize-winning 2020 album, God Has Nothing to Do with This Leave Him Out of It, Backxwash has delivered a follow...

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  Mykki Blanco Brings Big Ideas to Mini-Album 'Broken Hearts and Beauty Sleep'

  PUBLISHED Jun 16, 2021

  Over the first nine years of their career, Mykki Blanco has crafted a personality so strong and memorable that even a five-year holdover co...

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  'Culture III' Ends Migos' Trilogy with More of the Same

  PUBLISHED Jun 15, 2021

  Georgia's three-headed monster of triple-time flows (and more showy ice than those girls from Frozen) delayed the long-awaited third and fi...