Music Reviews
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Ladytron Time's Arrow
On their seventh album, the Liverpool band aims for its most focused and polished with mixed results.
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Måneskin Rush!
A miserable buffet of rock ‘n’ roll cliches, the Italian rockers' third LP is essentially homeopathic rock muzak.
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The Murder Capital Gigi's Recovery
On their conceptual second LP, the Dublin quintent takes new and exciting rhythmic detours to accompany their slightly more optimistic, inward-looking reflections—transcending their post-punk influences with restraint and finesse.
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Belle & Sebastian Late Developers
On Late Developers, bandleader Stuart Murdoch’s engaging storytelling and familiar voice gives a needed sense of steadiness to the band’s poppiest, weakest album in years.
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Rozi Plain Prize
On her 5th album, the Bristol artist twists and bends her limble folk arrangements with gusto—imbuing its busy arrangements with more a shimmer than a swoosh.
Juan Edgardo Rodríguez reviews... -
Zox The Fox Concept Album / Kidney Disaster 3
Have you ever heard anything that makes you actively despise music as a concept?
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Weyes Blood And In The Darkness, Hearts Aglow
With individual song credits listing up to seventeen muscians, And In The Darkness, Heart Aglow leaves Natalie Mering’s prior works somewhere in its monstrous wake.
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Alex G God Save the Animals
The indie rock singer-songwriter “God” references the deity Himself on his ninth LP, even if it may allude to something less defined but equally potent: the simple belief that man can do good.
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Alvvays Blue Rev
The world is accelerating. Can this charming and likeable Toronto quintet keep up? You bet they can!
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Skullcrusher Quiet the Room
Equally transcendent and grounded in reality, the chamber folk-meets-ambient debut fronted by Helen Ballentine reminds us of the hurt and the wonder of recapturing lost youth.
Juan Edgardo Rodríguez reviews...
