reviews
NewJeans' 'Get Up' EP Is Targeted Directly at Your Brain's Pleasure Centre
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PUBLISHED Aug 21, 2023
NewJeans are a big departure from other massive K-pop exports, contrasting the bombast of BTS or BLACKPINK with their low-key sound bridgin...
'Blue Beetle' Can't Break the Mould
Directed by Ángel Manuel Soto
PUBLISHED Aug 18, 2023
The biggest media talking point of Ángel Manuel Soto's Blue Beetle has been its cultural and representational breakthroughs. Written, direc...
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...
Fievel Is Glaque Stay Quick on Their Feet with "I'm Scanning Things I Can't See" and "Dark Dancing"
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PUBLISHED Aug 18, 2023
The demo-itis Fievel Is Glaque claims to feel is nowhere in sight on their first Fat Possum offerings. Their latest double single is a heat...
'Strays' Is a Doggone Delight
Directed by Josh Greenbaum
PUBLISHED Aug 18, 2023
The premise of Strays is simple: a dog, Reggie (Will Ferrell), has been mistreated by his owner, Doug (Will Forte), and, in an act of reven...
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...
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...
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...