Album Reviews

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  Frankie and the Witch Fingers Are Proudly Human on 'Data Doom'

  PUBLISHED Aug 30, 2023

  The future may be uncertain, but some constants seem to always ring true: water will be wet, the sky will be blue, the world will be fucked...

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  Jeff Rosenstock's 'HELLMODE' Is a Soundtrack to Modern Living

  PUBLISHED Aug 29, 2023

  HELLLLMOOOODE! If you're a Jeff Rosenstock fan, you probably saw the title of his fifth studio album and nodded knowingly. HELLMODE… of cou...

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  Speedy Ortiz Are Swift-Footed on 'Rabbit Rabbit'

  PUBLISHED Aug 29, 2023

  Nostalgia-core is the hottest thing these days, but Speedy Ortiz have been riding that wave well before it was en vogue. Acts from the '90s...

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  Ratboys Have Never Been Better on 'The Window'

  PUBLISHED Aug 25, 2023

  It took a while for Ratboys to find stability. For almost a decade, the Chicago indie rockers were essentially a duo with a revolving door...

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  Spanish Love Songs Are Battered but Never Beaten on 'No Joy'

  PUBLISHED Aug 25, 2023

  Spanish Love Songs released their third record Brave Faces Everyone in February of 2020, a darkly funny time to put out a breakout album of...

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  Blut Aus Nord's 'Disharmonium - Nahab' Contemplates the Unimaginable

  PUBLISHED Aug 24, 2023

  With Disharmonium - Nahab, iconic experimental French black metal outfit Blut Aus Nord return to the psychedelic realms of Lovecraftian con...

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  Buck Meek Climbs Higher on 'Haunted Mountain'

  PUBLISHED Aug 23, 2023

  Since encountering Adrianne Lenker in 2014, Buck Meek has been a quietly essential half of the yin/twang relationship at the heart of Big T...

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  myst milano. Forges Through the Fakery on 'Beyond the Uncanny Valley'

  PUBLISHED Aug 23, 2023

  "I offer Beyond the Uncanny Valley as a working anthology of Black electronic music across generational, geographical and genre lines," Tor...