Articles by Julia Gunst

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  Language Arts

  Able Island

  PUBLISHED Oct 9, 2015

  Able Island is filled with sweetly crafted and ensconcing tunes — you'll want to wrap yourself in Language Art's finely textured melo...

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  Chad VanGaalen and Seth Smith

  Seed of Dorzon

  PUBLISHED Sep 21, 2015

  Chad VanGaalen and Dog Day's Seth Smith passed back and forth single-track mix-downs to craft debut album Seeds of Dorzon, forging a creati...

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  Concealer

  Fêted:Fetid

  PUBLISHED Sep 9, 2015

  Concealer is a perfect mix of melodic folk tendencies and pounding electronic punk that refuses to make room for saccharine simplicity. As...

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  toe

  Hear You

  PUBLISHED Jul 29, 2015

  Despite their name, Japanese math rockers toe wash ears clean with crisp rhythms and melodic experimentations on their third full-length al...

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  Jenny Hval

  Apocalypse, girl

  PUBLISHED Jun 8, 2015

  By taking the listener down into a cavernous chamber of stream-of-conscious musings on Apocalypse, girl, Jenny Hval invites us to a hauntin...

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  Nick Ferrio

  Amongst the Coyotes and the Birdsongs

  PUBLISHED May 22, 2015

  Nick Ferrio's sophomore album, Amongst the Coyotes and Birdsongs, is a gentle frolic into even-paced and country-laced folk songs. Diving i...

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  Twinsmith

  Alligator Years

  PUBLISHED May 5, 2015

  On second LP Alligator Years, soft surf-y licks roll up on the beach of Twinsmith's lyrics of lost hope and longing. Throughout the album,...

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  Miami Horror

  All Possible Futures

  PUBLISHED Apr 17, 2015

  All Possible Futures is a sublime dive into a retro-futuristic world filled with Melbourne-based band Miami Horror's effervescent synths an...