Album Reviews

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  Kurt Vile Retraces His Steps on 'Back to Moon Beach'

  PUBLISHED Nov 14, 2023

  "These recycled riffs ain't going anywhere, anytime soon," stammers Kurt Vile on his latest EP's title track. Riffs, lyrics, melodies — cal...

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  PinkPantheress Spreads Her Wings on 'Heaven knows'

  PUBLISHED Nov 10, 2023

  "I am not your internet baby," PinkPantheress sings on her debut album Heaven knows — a repeated refrain in which she explicitly distances...

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  Chris Stapleton Is for Everyone on 'Higher'

  PUBLISHED Nov 8, 2023

  Chris Stapleton was writing music in Nashville decades before he ventured out on his own in 2015 with Traveller. Since then, Stapleton has...

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  Cat Power Is Devotee, Student and Messenger on 'Cat Power Sings Dylan: The 1966 Royal Albert Hall Concert'

  PUBLISHED Nov 7, 2023

  Almost 60 years after his mythic performance at the Manchester Free Trade Hall, we're still talking about Robert Zimmerman. The infamous ac...

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  Badge Epoque Ensemble Break Down the Essentials on 'Air, Light & Harmony'

  PUBLISHED Nov 3, 2023

  What's the next step after cutting your most accomplished effort to date? For Badge Époque Ensemble, the horizon beyond last year's Clouds...

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  Bry Webb's 'Run with Me' Is Both Conclusion and Rebirth

  PUBLISHED Nov 3, 2023

  Sometimes people disappear gradually. Archival evidence of their being remains, standing in for their actual presence, but when (or if) the...

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  bar italia Are Out for Blood on 'The Twits'

  PUBLISHED Nov 2, 2023

  Not content with only releasing their nervy Matador debut Tracey Denim this year, bar italia venture into fuzzy, clanging britpop on their...

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  Hotline TNT Defy Space and Time on 'Cartwheel'

  PUBLISHED Nov 2, 2023

  How did Wisconsin-born Will Anderson go from making grunge-pop in Vancouver to shoegaze-adjacent rock in Brooklyn while signing with a tast...