Album Reviews

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  The Armed Are Everything at Once on 'Perfect Saviours'

  PUBLISHED Aug 22, 2023

  The Armed are a band who, in the past, have been a lot of things at once: ambiguous, anonymous, hyperbolic and wholly mysterious. That is,...

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  Silks' 'Pressure Waves' Is a Heavy-Hitting Psychedelic Potion

  PUBLISHED Aug 18, 2023

  On their shockingly fully-formed debut album, Silks boil a cauldron of vastly different genres into a heavy-hitting psychedelic potion. Fiv...

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  Dizzy's Self-Titled Album Is a Silk-Wrapped Dagger

  PUBLISHED Aug 17, 2023

  A few months ago, with hot tears stinging my eyes, I told a person I loved in a hungry sort of way that I hated them for destroying me. "I...

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  Hozier's 'Unreal Unearth' Is Music to Escape Into

  PUBLISHED Aug 17, 2023

  In the four years since his last album as Hozier, Andrew Hozier-Byrne has become a sort of mythical being. With his deeply poetic folk-infu...

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  Osees Hurtle into Orbit with 'Intercepted Message'

  PUBLISHED Aug 17, 2023

  It should come as no surprise to followers of Osees — and their frontman and mastermind, John Dwyer — that the band would waste no time put...

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  Melody and Intensity Collide on Fiddlehead's 'Death Is Nothing to Us'

  PUBLISHED Aug 16, 2023

  Leave it to the guy who wrote "Armed with a Mind" almost 20 years ago to go on to lead one of the most cerebral punk bands of the present d...

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  Genesis Owusu Puts the World on Notice with 'Struggler'

  PUBLISHED Aug 15, 2023

  Genesis Owusu is a star. With Struggler, the Ghanaian-Australian artist builds on the strengths of his multifaceted debut — 2021's Smiling...

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  The Hives Resurrect Themselves on 'The Death of Randy Fitzsimmons'

  PUBLISHED Aug 10, 2023

  A lot has changed in the garage rock world since the Hives last suited up for 2012's Lex Hives. If the aughts were the genre's wildest high...