Articles by Daniel Sylvester

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  Suuns Experiment with Sound on 'FICTION' EP

  PUBLISHED Oct 29, 2020

  "Discovering this lost jam and its power felt like a reminder to keep in the moment and to trust ourselves —you just have to keep moving fo...

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  Actress Nimbly Balances Many Ideas, Moods and Collaborators on 'Karma & Desire'

  PUBLISHED Oct 20, 2020

  There was reason to worry when Darren Cunningham (a.k.a Actress) released 88, his 48-minute mixtape, this past July. Consisting of a fluid...

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  Parallel Play: The Story of How '90s CanRock Blew Up in Detroit

  PUBLISHED Oct 14, 2020

  For the millennials waiting to snatch a J Dilla picture disc or the latest Father John Misty 7-inch on Record Store Day 2015, it must have...

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  Thurston Moore Is a Pale Imitation of His Former Self on 'By the Fire'

  PUBLISHED Sep 28, 2020

  Throughout his 38 years as a recording musician, Thurston Moore has lived numerous lives: no-wave pioneer, experimental drone musician, MTV...

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  Osees' 'Protean Threat' Keeps John Dwyer's Hot Streak Impossibly Alive

  PUBLISHED Sep 15, 2020

  In an era of rampant hyperbole and fake news, there's one singular truth; John Dwyer has never made a bad album under his Thee Oh Sees vari...

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  Tricky Brings Raw Emotion to His Classic Trip-Hop Sound on 'Fall to Pieces'

  PUBLISHED Sep 3, 2020

  Upon first listen, Tricky's 14th LP sounds like one of those mid-career back-to-basics affairs, rife with crackling low-end bass, looped pi...

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  Kelly Lee Owens's Emotional 'Inner Song' Is About the Journey, Not the Destination

  PUBLISHED Aug 25, 2020

  While many musicians have created works thematically based on their environment, it's almost always presented as a self-serving expedition,...

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  Jaga Jazzist Can't Find Their Focus on 'Pyramid'

  PUBLISHED Aug 6, 2020

  Since the release of their debut LP in 1996, Jaga Jazzist always felt like the most forward-looking members of the Scandinavian jazz scene,...