Music Reviews
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The Umbrellas Fairweather Friend
The Bay Area indie-pop quartet takes a giant leap forward on this sensational second album.
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The Smile Wall of Eyes
The celebrated Radiohead offshoot adopts a looser, more cinematic expression on their follow-up to 2022's A Light for Attracting Attention.
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Green Day Saviors
The East Bay veterans blend their politics with heartfelt arena rock anthems. What else did you expect?
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Beirut Hadsel
The idyllic Norwegian town of Hadsel informs Zach Condon's first album in four years.
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Cupid & Psyche Romantic Music
The former Abe Vigoda songwriters reunite with a marginally new sound: gauzy, hook-driven dream pop with shades of 80s' sophisti-pop.
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SPELLLING SPELLLING & The Mystery School
SPELLLING, (a.k.a. Chrystia Cabral), reconsiders a selection of songs from prior works for her latest LP, SPELLLING & The Mystery School. Don’t call it a covers album.
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Ratboys The Window
Following their 2020 breakthrough release, Printer's Devil, the Julia Steiner-fronted band moves away from their folk leanings to a degree in favor of fuzzy alt-country.
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The Hives The Death of Randy Fitzsimmons
On their first album in eleven years, the Swedish garage rock stalwarts retain their feral energy with a rejuvenated spirit.
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Cut Worms Cut Worms
On his third Cut Worms album, Max Clarke delivers his sharpest set of songs yet in what amounts to a breezy compact offering.
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Sweeping Promises Good Living is Coming For You
The lo-fi tinged new wave of Lira Mondel and Caufield Schnug emerges with tuneful pop smarts that could've ignited any college rock scene in the early eighties.
Juan Edgardo Rodríguez reviews...
