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Album Review: Eartheater – Phoenix: Flames Are Dew Upon My Skin

Todd DedmanOctober 8, 2020

Isolation is all around us, its inescapable grasp clutching us to its shard-like chest as 2020 wheezes its way to its last quarter. The year has been one of se...

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Album Review: SUMAC – May You Be Held

Todd DedmanOctober 7, 2020

Upper-case letter fans SUMAC have come a long way since The Deal, their debut album of 2015. The experimental trio were seen then as perhaps nothing more than ...

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Album Review: MJ Guider – Sour Cherry Bell

Todd DedmanSeptember 24, 2020

Sour Cherry Bell, the second album from Melissa Guion’s hard to define soundscape-shoegaze-goth-artrock project MJ Guider, is a glacial wonder of cold tones an...

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Album Review: Uniform – Shame

Todd DedmanSeptember 15, 2020

Shame, the fourth studio album from New York underground darlings Uniform, is a concept album of sorts. The record’s essence resonates with the theme of the un...

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Album Review: Widowspeak – Plum

Todd DedmanSeptember 3, 2020

On their fifth studio album Widowspeak move away from their brand of Mazzy Star/Madder Rose-infused hazy 90s dream-pop to a more gently-pitched acoustic folk –...

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Album Review: Kelly Lee Owens – Inner Song

Todd DedmanSeptember 1, 2020

By her own admission, Kelly Lee Owens has had a difficult few years in her personal life. Going so far as to feel that she didn’t know whether she would be abl...

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Album Review: J. Zunz – Hibiscus

Todd DedmanAugust 26, 2020

Perhaps better known as one half of brilliant Mexican dreampop and psych-experimentalists Lorelle Meets the Obsolete, Lorena Quintanilla’s solo work as J. Zunz...

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Album Review: King Buzzo with Trevor Dunn – Gift of Sacrifice

Todd DedmanAugust 13, 2020

For his second solo album, Melvins’ singer and guitarist Buzz Osborne aka King Buzzo has enlisted Mr Bungle bass player Trevor Dunn to create an album that fee...

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Album Review: Rival Consoles – Articulation

Todd DedmanAugust 6, 2020

Emotional depth is often difficult to achieve in electronic music. The often neutered and sanitised textures of technology obscure the more personal elements a...

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Album Review: Entry – Detriment

Todd DedmanJuly 23, 2020

To call LA hardcore punks Entry’s brilliantly violent and cathartic record Detriment a full-length debut would be something of a misnomer. At a little over 14 ...

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