Album Reviews

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  Mabe Fratti Has More Questions Than Answers on 'Sentir que no sabes'

  PUBLISHED Jun 26, 2024

  Mabe Fratti would make a good Oracle. In thinking of a tidy aesthetic phylum to classify the Guatemalan cellist, singer and composer's work...

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  Jamboree Mourn the Salad Days on 'Summerland'

  PUBLISHED Jun 26, 2024

  It rises from the prairie landscape as a defiant obelisk. Two sixteen-story towers joined together by an all-embracing tropical atrium ...

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  Islands Sail into the Sunset on 'What Occurs'

  PUBLISHED Jun 26, 2024

  There's a sense of finality floating on the sun-warmed waters of 'What Occurs,' the tenth album by Islands, the near two-decade-old ...

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  Kehlani Is Living Well on the Careening 'Crash'

  PUBLISHED Jun 25, 2024

  These days, our main pop girls work in feedback loops. They live in, respond to and build on the lore that surrounds them — no questions...

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  Pond Aren't Quite Sharp Enough on 'Stung!'

  PUBLISHED Jun 20, 2024

  Can the joy of experimentation go rote? If anybody knows, it would be Australian headcases Pond. Their kitchen-sink approach...

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  Alcest Stay in the Light on 'Les Chants de l'Aurore'

  PUBLISHED Jun 19, 2024

  There is something incredibly satisfying about amalgamating genres into ridiculous, Frankensteinian combinations, and there is no ...

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  Cross Dog Fight the Good Fight on 'All Hard Feelings'

  PUBLISHED Jun 18, 2024

  Turning their usual formula on its head, Peterborough's Cross Dog aren't here to play when it comes to the politically charged ...

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  The Decemberists Enjoy the Journey on 'As It Ever Was, So It Will Be Again'

  PUBLISHED Jun 14, 2024

  Colin Meloy's been a busy guy — his YA and children's novels have taken up a lot of his time. He didn't intend for the Decemberists' hiatus...