Album Reviews

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  BADBADNOTGOOD Reconnect with Their Jazz Roots on 'Talk Memory'

  PUBLISHED Oct 4, 2021

  Since the release of their debut LP in 2011, BADBADNOTGOOD has always been associated with modern hip-hop culture, releasing Gang Starr cov...

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  Illuminati Hotties' 'Let Me Do One More' Is the One We've Been Waiting For

  PUBLISHED Oct 4, 2021

  Last year's FREE I.H mixtape was subtitled This Is Not the One You've Been Waiting For. The latest album from Illuminati Hotties, on the ot...

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  Bestfriend's Tenderness Transcends Bedroom Pop on 'places i've lived'

  PUBLISHED Sep 30, 2021

  Bestfriend is whoever you need them to be.  Holding up a mirror to the millennial psyche, the bicoastal duo consists of Stacy Kim and Kael...

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  Hovvdy's 'True Love' Is a Hopeful Embrace of the Present and Future

  PUBLISHED Sep 30, 2021

  Often what makes us love a piece of music is the sense of nostalgia it can bring, the way an artist expresses love or sadness as an admirat...

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  Andy Shauf Continues to Flex His Storytelling Strengths on 'Wilds'

  PUBLISHED Sep 29, 2021

  Andy Shauf crafted something incredibly special when he put together his 2020 release The Neon Skyline. The album was a tour-de-force for t...

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  Full of Hell's 'Garden of Burning Apparitions' is a Glorious Whirlwind of Extreme Music

  PUBLISHED Sep 29, 2021

  Often the best extreme music — and perhaps much of the best art — comes from broken-down emotions, those fashioned from fear, pain, chaos,...

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  Tirzah Deconstructs Everything on 'Colourgrade'

  PUBLISHED Sep 27, 2021

  A lullaby ought to be soft and quiet, but its core objective isn't beauty so much as hypnosis — repetitive, beckoning, inescapable. There's...

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  The Garrys Ride Surf Rock's Wake to New Sonic Territory on 'Get Thee to a Nunnery'

  PUBLISHED Sep 23, 2021

  Hot off of their spooky 2020 rescoring of Haxan: Withcraft Through the Ages, the Garrys have blessed everyone's ears with Get Thee to a Nun...