Album Reviews

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  Chelsea Wolfe Shines Some Light on 'She Reaches Out to She Reaches Out to She'

  PUBLISHED Feb 6, 2024

  'She Reaches Out to She Reaches Out to She' is an impressive, liberating album of icy rhythms and brutal honesty...

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  Fearbirds' 'Aux Blood' Roils with Promise

  PUBLISHED Feb 5, 2024

  'Aux Blood' appears straightforward, but give it some time and it reveals the complicated currents roiling just below the surface...

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  The Last Dinner Party's 'Prelude to Ecstasy' Is Plenty Ecstatic

  PUBLISHED Feb 5, 2024

  If the Last Dinner Party’s debut is but a 'Prelude to Ecstasy,' its masterful focus is a clear promise they’ll be back to enrapture us again...

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  Talia Schlanger Finds a Gentle Resilience on 'Grace for the Going'

  PUBLISHED Feb 5, 2024

  On 'Grace for the Going,' Talia Schlanger is complex and paradoxical, brilliantly balancing an impressive duality...

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  Jeen Shines on 'Gold Control'

  PUBLISHED Feb 2, 2024

  'Gold Control' finds JEEN in a state of contemplation, adding tinges of shoegaze and ‘80s goth pop to her scrappy rock melange...

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  J Mascis Makes the Most of His Time on 'What Do We Do Now'

  PUBLISHED Feb 2, 2024

  Mascis returns with his greatest solo effort yet on 'What Do We Do Now,' melding his solo work and his more famous electric sorcery ...

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  Liquid Mike Rise to the Occasion with 'Paul Bunyan's Slingshot'

  PUBLISHED Jan 30, 2024

  Paul Bunyan’s Slingshot is a fun and ambitious (but not too ambitious) expansion of Liquid Mike’s sound...

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  Vera Sola's 'Peacemaker' Brims with Cinematic Grandeur

  PUBLISHED Jan 30, 2024

  Vera Sola’s sophomore album feels like a long lost Western, complete with sweeping American landscapes, gun-slingers and a troubled heroine...