Music Reviews
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Dehd Blue Skies
The Chicago-based trio's latest is an explorative work, one that shifts between the bedrock sounds of their previous album and the many ways they can expand on them.
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Arcade Fire WE
On WE, Arcade Fire reconnect with the cathartic, communal spirit that made them great. While there are some misses and flaws, the album is a reminder of what you love about this band.
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Sharon Van Etten We've Been Going About This All Wrong
On her sixth full-length LP, the venerable singer-songwriter starts down the path of rebuilding her life after a period of flux.
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Spiritualized Everything Was Beautiful
On their ninth LP, Jason Pierce and his bandmates revel in the highs of being human with another orchestral masterwork that brims at every turn—that is, until the inevitable low hits.
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Jack White Fear of the Dawn
Whereas Boarding House Reach felt like a misdirection, an attempt to be experimental for the sake of seeing how far boundaries can be pushed, Fear of the Dawn allows the Nashville-based, Detroit native to mess around within more traditional songwriting sensibilities.
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Wet Leg Wet Leg
Wet Leg’s hotly anticipated self-titled debut is no slapped-together producer’s vision of what the kids should like. Its authenticity is what makes it so addictive.
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Aldous Harding Warm Chris
For all of her unreadable tendencies, Harding controls her spacious, psych-leaning folk contours with simple elegance on her fourth LP. Even if, conceptually, she keeps us at arm’s length.
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Nilüfer Yanya PAINLESS
Even if the West London singer-songwriter’s natural knack for experimentation remains, Yanya’s nocturnal second album is more uniform in mood and musical texture.
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Mitski Laurel Hell
Mitski returns with an ‘80s-inspired mix of heady synths and cutting lyrics that makes for a more compact, focused listen.
Joe Marvilli works for the knife… -
Gang of Youths angel in realtime.
The London-via-Sydney indie rock band are not coy in taking it up a notch on their third LP, delivering a lush, high-minded statement that befits frontman David Le'aupepe’s extraordinary life story.
Juan Edgardo Rodríguez reviews...
