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Album Review: Anjimile – Giver Taker

Gareth O'MalleySeptember 23, 2020

Chronicling grief and loss, and written while recuperating from drug and alcohol abuse, the debut album from Boston’s Anjimile Chitambo is an intense affair dr...

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Interview: Everything Everything

Gareth O'MalleySeptember 7, 2020

On the day I speak with their drummer Mike Spearman, two bits of Everything Everything-related news have been released into the world; namely, they’ve announce...

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Album Review: PVRIS – Use Me

Gareth O'MalleySeptember 3, 2020

Her second album was called All We Know of Heaven, All We Need of Hell, and Lynn Gunn went through both extremes in the years following its release in 2017. Si...

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Album Review: I LIKE TRAINS – KOMPROMAT

Gareth O'MalleyAugust 27, 2020

The world has changed, and I LIKE TRAINS have changed with it, as they have been wont to do. This time, however, the changes took a little longer to come into ...

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Album Review: Biffy Clyro – A Celebration of Endings

Gareth O'MalleyAugust 14, 2020

Say what you will about Biffy Clyro, but the Scottish band don’t do half measures. The Glaswegian trio have been flying the flag for idiosyncratic rock music f...

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Album Review: Another Sky – I Slept On The Floor

Gareth O'MalleyAugust 12, 2020

It’s taken London quartet Another Sky three years to get from playing their first gig to putting out their debut album, and in that time they’ve figured themse...

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Album Review: Creeper – Sex, Death & the Infinite Void

Gareth O'MalleyAugust 5, 2020

Exactly the kind of band to bring the curtain down on their former selves in a very public fashion – as they did at the end of the touring cycle for Eternity, ...

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Album Review: Henry Green – Half Light

Gareth O'MalleyJuly 7, 2020

The notion of the difficult second album has become a well-worn cliché, but Henry Green wasn’t sure there would even be one. Unexpectedly thrust into the spotl...

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Album Review: Gordi – Our Two Skins

Gareth O'MalleyJune 30, 2020

Written amidst upheaval on a personal and national scale, the new album from Australian Sophie Payten offers a starkly beautiful reimagining of the sound she e...

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Album Review: Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever – Sideways to New Italy

Gareth O'MalleyJune 5, 2020

It’s not particularly surprising that Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever are releasing a new album a little under two years since their debut full-length. They’re...

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