Album Reviews

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  girlpuppy Confronts Herself on 'When I'm Alone'

  PUBLISHED Oct 26, 2022

  Allowing yourself to be vulnerable isn't as easy as all those sad songs make it seem. Bearing your big, scary emotions to the world is cath...

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  Dazy's Noisy 'OUTOFBODY' Is Full-Tilt Power Pop

  PUBLISHED Oct 26, 2022

  Dazy, the bedroom power-pop alter-ego of James Goodson, released a compilation of his early EPs and singles last year called MAXIMUMBLASTSU...

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  Field Guide's 'Field Guide' Is an Intimate Self-Portrait

  PUBLISHED Oct 26, 2022

  Field Guide's sophomore full-length album is making its way out into the world, and it's bringing all the chill vibes you can handle along...

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  Carly Rae Jepsen's 'The Loneliest Time' Has Too Many Cooks in the Kitchen

  PUBLISHED Oct 26, 2022

  Carly Rae Jepsen famously assembles her albums by drawing from a pool of dozens of potential songs, and The Loneliest Time is the result of...

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  Blessed Refuse Easy Answers on 'Circuitous'

  PUBLISHED Oct 25, 2022

  "Am I attempting living right?" Drew Riekman asks in "Redefine," the pensive, winding opener from Blessed's sophomore LP Circuitous. Riekma...

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  Matt Foster's 'True Needs' Is a Quiet Storm

  PUBLISHED Oct 25, 2022

  Matt Foster is in no rush. On "Hospital," a particularly muted track planted delicately in the middle of their stunning debut solo album Tr...

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  Junior Boys' 'Waiting Game' Pays Off

  PUBLISHED Oct 24, 2022

  Hamilton electro-funk duo Junior Boys have carried the torch of Canadian sub-mainstream electronic music steadily, if sometimes unspectacul...

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  Taylor Swift Is Her Own Timekeeper on 'Midnights'

  PUBLISHED Oct 24, 2022

  Nothing exists in a vacuum — least of all a Taylor Swift album. Perhaps more so than any other modern-day pop star, to be a critical consum...