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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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Album Review: A.A. Williams – Forever Blue

Todd DedmanJuly 6, 2020

It takes exactly 22 seconds to fall in love with Forever Blue. By that point, the plaintive piano that opens “All I Asked For (Was To End It All)” is joined by...

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Album Review: The Soft Pink Truth – Shall We Go On Sinning So That Grace May Increase?

Todd DedmanJune 23, 2020

What do you do when you see the world around you crumbling to dust? Some fight in anger, some flee in despair, and some make life-affirming pieces of art or co...

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Album Review: Maserati – Enter The Mirror

Todd DedmanJune 15, 2020

On their seventh studio album, Enter The Mirror, Maserati have produced a partially exhilarating record which falls somewhere between Holy Fuck and aspects of ...

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