Album Reviews

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  Blood Incantation Space Out on 'Timewave Zero'

  PUBLISHED Feb 23, 2022

  On their first two full-lengths, Blood Incantation crafted cosmic death metal that launched them to the exosphere. Their journey — on the f...

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  Superchunk Wage War Against 'Wild Loneliness' with Infectious Sweetness

  PUBLISHED Feb 23, 2022

  In all the grimy gloom of a pandemic, we need Superchunk to drop by and blast it all away with a wondrously upbeat and slyly optimistic rec...

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  The Body and OAA's 'Enemy of Love' Is an Amorphous Blob of Hellish Cacophony

  PUBLISHED Feb 22, 2022

  Through countless jarring shifts, sludge metal duo the Body have maintained one constant: collaboration. Even on 2021's supposed return to...

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  Hamilton Shoegazers Basement Revolver 'Embody' Vulnerability, Resilience and Growth

  PUBLISHED Feb 21, 2022

  Embody, the second full-length album by Hamilton, ON, shoegazers Basement Revolver, is a pandemic baby. Forged against the constraining bac...

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  Tennyson's 'Rot' Is Fresh

  PUBLISHED Feb 18, 2022

  There is a certain irony in creating your most dynamic music while suffering a hearing condition. That was the reality for Tennyson, a.k.a....

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  Lavender Country's Roots Run Through Past and Present on 'Blackberry Rose'

  PUBLISHED Feb 17, 2022

  Country music is filled with iconography. Whether it be the archetypal wandering cowpoke on the range, rambling outlaw or the city-dwelling...

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  Khruangbin and Leon Bridges' Southern Charm Never Wanes on 'Texas Moon'

  PUBLISHED Feb 17, 2022

  Texas is arguably best known for country music, but the Lone Star State has produced major contributors to a kaleidoscope of genres. It's a...

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  Alice Glass Eviscerates Her Past with 'PREY//IV'

  PUBLISHED Feb 16, 2022

  Darkwave veteran Alice Glass has re-emerged with PREY//IV, her debut solo album and first release in five years. The record — a decidedly a...