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Album Review: No Joy – Motherhood

Rob HakimianAugust 27, 2020

No Joy is the project of Montreal-based Jasamine White-Gluz, backed by a rotating cast of bandmates. This variance of collaborators has always helped the proje...

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Album Review: Bright Eyes – Down in the Weeds, Where the World Once Was

Rob HakimianAugust 21, 2020

In the time since Bright Eyes’ last album, 2011’s The People’s Key, Conor Oberst has released six albums with three different projects. It’s quite a rate, but ...

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Album Review: The Microphones – Microphones in 2020

Rob HakimianAugust 7, 2020

The true state of all things: Phil Elverum does not care about your expectations or preconceived notions. Earlier this year, when he announced he would be rele...

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Album Review: Jessy Lanza – All The Time

Rob HakimianJuly 30, 2020

Jessy Lanza’s three albums have all been sets of tightly-written and pristinely-produced pop songs, compacted into 40 minutes – but their slightness belies the...

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Album Review: Nicolas Jaar – Telas

Rob HakimianJuly 23, 2020

Nicolas Jaar is having an extremely fruitful 2020. Telas is his third full-length released this year, after the second Against All Logic album and his fifth al...

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Album Review: The Beths – Jump Rope Gazers

Rob HakimianJuly 10, 2020

The Beths’ 2018 debut album Future Me Hates Me was lightning in a bottle. It was surprising to learn that the Kiwis were actually students of jazz, because the...

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Album Review: Little Kid – Transfiguration Highway

Rob HakimianJuly 8, 2020

Little Kid’s Transfiguration Highway opens with a sharp melodic blast of harmonica and some lilting piano, and immediately the lineage between the Toronto-base...

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Album Review: Amnesia Scanner – Tearless

Rob HakimianJuly 3, 2020

If you couldn’t already tell from that album cover, Amnesia Scanner have no intention of being approachable. The Berlin-based Finnish duo have been putting out...

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Overlooked 2020: Underappreciated albums from January to June

Kyle Kohner, Andy Johnston, Rob Hakimian, Josh Sand, Ray Finlayson, Lauren Mullineaux, Emma Bauchner, Ana Leorne, Tim Sentz, Chase McMullen, Gareth O'Malley and Grady PennaJune 29, 2020

Every year there are more and more releases vying for your attention – and that's not just in music. What's more, the quality is pretty much great all across t...

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Album Review: Jockstrap – Wicked City EP

Rob HakimianJune 24, 2020

Jockstrap are a pair of young Londoners, Georgia Ellery and Taylor Skye, whose 2018 debut EP Love is the Key to the City was an impressive display of genre-ble...

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