Album Reviews

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  Wyatt C. Louis Finds Growth and Grace on 'Chandler'

  PUBLISHED May 23, 2024

  Wyatt C. Louis fills their lungs with Chinook winds and breathes new life into the hulking behemoth that is modern indie folk with their de...

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  Gatecreeper Speak to Spirits on 'Dark Superstition'

  PUBLISHED May 23, 2024

  Metal is often about posturing and comparing. Who's the loudest? (I'm the loudest!) Who's the fastest? (I'm the fastest?) Who's the heavies...

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  DIIV Have the Instinct to Survive on 'Frog in Boiling Water'

  PUBLISHED May 23, 2024

  DIIV is a band built on nuance and confrontation. While one side of their music is light, wistful and psychedelic, the other is frazzled...

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  Beth Gibbons Looks to a Lost Future on 'Lives Outgrown'

  PUBLISHED May 21, 2024

  Beth Gibbons is like a ghost. Probing the shadowy spaces of bereavement, her songs are articulated through weary quivers, moans and wails....

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  Billie Eilish's 'HIT ME HARD AND SOFT' Pulls No Punches

  PUBLISHED May 21, 2024

  In today's sound-bite-driven music landscape, releasing an album without singles is a swing that only the industry's heaviest hitters will...

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  Alana Yorke's 'Destroyer' Rises Above the Waves

  PUBLISHED May 17, 2024

  Eight years in the making, Nova Scotia singer-songwriter Alana Yorke's full-length debut album 'Destroyer' is an art-pop outpouring of ...

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  The Anti-Queens Up the Ante on 'Disenchanted'

  PUBLISHED May 16, 2024

  The Anti-Queens understand punk. Not just because they've been a Toronto underground mainstay for over a decade, or because their 2019 self...

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  of Montreal Are Still the Horniest Freaks at the Party on 'Lady on the Cusp'

  PUBLISHED May 16, 2024

  Over the span of 27 years, Kevin Barnes has released 20 albums and five EPs as of Montreal, nearly putting them in league with Guided by...