Music Reviews
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Lady Lamb the Beekeeper After
For her sophomore album, Lady Lamb the Beekeeper takes experimental structures and places them alongside some of the best, most direct songs of her career so far.
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The Tallest Man on Earth Dark Bird Is Home
Dark Bird Is Home is an improvement over the Tallest Man on Earth’s Shallow Grave, as it breaks out of his established musical palette just when it began to feel as if he had nothing else to offer.
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Joanna Gruesome Peanut Butter
The Cardiff noise pop's follow-up to Weird Sister rests upon its contradictions with tart arrangements that are lean and immediate, though prove to be exhausting when listened to in its entirety.
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Blur The Magic Whip
The English veterans release their first studio album in 12 years.
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Mumford & Sons Wilder Mind
Mumford & Sons are back with a new album! And it doesn't feature any barn-stomping whatsoever!
Andrew Ciraulo is a hootin' and a hollerin'... -
Best Coast California Nights
For their major-label debut California Nights, the duo of Bethany Cosentino and Bobb Bruno try to tackle a modern indie-pop sound from a somewhat different angle: by returning to a narrower sonic palette, albeit one that’s heavier and more complex than anything they’ve attempted before.
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Godspeed You! Black Emperor Asunder, Sweet and Other Distress
Previously known as 'Behemoth', Godspeed You! Black Emperor's latest album has been a regular feature of the band's live sets since 2012. But was the studio version worth the wait?
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Torres Sprinter
The latest by the Nashville singer-songwriter gets to the heart of the matter with open-hearted directness, and in balancing the coarse with the refined there’s a clearer sense of what Scott wants to find even if she struggles to understand the conditions that affect her most deeply.
Juan Edgardo Rodríguez reviews... -
Beauty Pill Beauty Pill Describes Things As They Are
Beauty Pill Describes Things As They Are interrupts 11 years of silence from D.C. rock band, Beauty Pill. It’s a very welcome return.
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METZ II
METZ's II might seem all-too familiar at first to those who were fans of their raucous debut, but that only means that METZ haven't lost the smallest iota of their unequivocal ferocity and power in crafting a follow-up.
Peter Quinton reviews...
