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Album Review: Rina Sawayama – SAWAYAMA

Rob HakimianApril 21, 2020

Rina Sawayama has always presented herself as someone who is confident, outspoken and proud of everything that comprises her history and personality. However, ...

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Cornershop share video for “Highly Amplified” and answer our questions (BPM Premiere)

Rob HakimianApril 15, 2020

British pop institution Cornershop released their new album England is a Garden back in March, and as always it is a delightfully blended mix of musical influe...

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Album Review: Wilma Archer – A Western Circular

Rob HakimianApril 9, 2020

A Western Circular is the first album released under the moniker Wilma Archer, but Will Archer is by no means a newcomer. Having put out several releases of bl...

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On Deck: Marlin’s Dreaming

Rob HakimianApril 7, 2020

Hailing from Dunedin, New Zealand, Marlin's Dreaming are a fourpiece making dreamy shoegaze-inflected rockers. The release of their second album Quotidian is j...

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Album Review: Thundercat – It Is What It Is

Rob HakimianApril 7, 2020

It Is What It Is is the fourth album from Stephen Bruner under his Thundercat moniker, and it’s his most solemn to date. From the title to the cover and into t...

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Album Review: Yves Tumor – Heaven To A Tortured Mind

Rob HakimianApril 3, 2020

On Yves Tumor’s last full-length, 2018’s Safe in the Hands of Love, the artist revealed the enormous breadth of their musical proclivities, meaning that no sim...

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Album Review: Sorry – 925

Rob HakimianMarch 31, 2020

London band Sorry have been signed to Domino since 2017, when they were all still teenagers. Now they’re releasing their debut album, 925, and while some of th...

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Album Review: Empty Country – Empty Country

Rob HakimianMarch 26, 2020

Ever since arriving as leader of Cymbals Eat Guitars in 2009 with Why There Are Mountains, Joe D’Agostino has seemed like a person who’s simultaneously awed an...

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Introducing: A.O. Gerber

Rob HakimianMarch 25, 2020

A songwriter with an ear for velveteen melodies that soundtrack fantasies of escape and personal growth A.O. Gerber is a songwriter born and raised in the P...

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Album Review: Soccer Mommy – Color Theory

Rob HakimianMarch 8, 2020

Sophie Allison is only 22, but upon listening to her second studio album, Color Theory, you’d be forgiven for thinking that she’s a good deal older than that. O...

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