Music Reviews
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AlunaGeorge Body Music
Some of us have been banging on about AlunaGeorge for the best part of two years now. Can the debut album from the London duo live up to expectations?
Joe Rivers is kinda buzzed, and it's all because... -
Neko Case The Worse Things Get, The Harder I Fight, The Harder I Fight, The More I Love You
The Virginia singer/songwriter's latest manages to create a painful outpouring of honesty, one that strikes that coveted balance of both melodic and lyrical expression.
Gabbie Nirenburg reviews... -
Chelsea Wolfe Pain is Beauty
With her fourth album since 2010, singer/songwriter Chelsea Wolfe favors the gothic rock influence, creating an album that is haunting and starkly gorgeous.
Bill Haff reviews... -
The Dodos Carrier
The San Francisco duo's reflective fifth release was loosely inspired by the passing of touring member Chris Reimer, one that slightly shifts their polyrhythmic brand of folk.
Juan Edgardo Rodríguez reviews... -
Drenge Drenge
The hotly-tipped guitar/drums duo that even made an appearance in a Labour MP’s open resignation letter... They couldn’t have cared less.
Carl Purvis is listening to this again and again... -
Arca &&&&&
Tangled cables, dirty dishes, shadows shading fake indoor plants and foreign language dictionaries. Welcome to the music of Arca.
Michael Iovino reviews... -
King Krule 6 Feet Beneath the Moon
He may have initially crushed us at the age of 16 with his emotional wrecking ball Out Getting Ribs, but does King Krule's debut full-length make nearly as strong and impression as the project's early singles did?
Peter Quinton tackles the dense, foggy web that is King Krule's debut album... -
Default Genders Stop Pretending EP
James Brooks releases his first real solo offering since the demise of the Elite Gymnastics project with Josh Clancy. Does the song remain the same, or has the removal of the duo's dynamic changed things for the worse?
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Medicine To The Happy Few
18 years after breaking up, the alt-rockers return with a new album of noisy shoegaze.
David John Wood asks whether it was worth it... -
Forest Swords Engravings
How does a producer of moody R&B which you can't really dance to make his mark in today's crowded marketplace? Borrowing a load of martial arts movie score tropes should do it.
Mark Davison took judo classes when he was 8 years old...
