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Album Review: Misty Boyce – genesis

Ray FinlaysonSeptember 24, 2020

Misty Boyce might be known amongst her peers and the music industry as a reliable and bookable session player, but she has been carving out her own take on the...

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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: 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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Album Review: Sarah Davachi – Cantus, Descant

Jeremy J. FisetteSeptember 23, 2020

Drone music is the rare genre that, when successful, seems to make very much out of very little. Think of some of the heavier hitters of the genre; Stars of th...

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Album Review: Deradoorian – Find The Sun

Michael CyrsSeptember 22, 2020

Many of us are spending extensive amounts of time in self-exploration, and Find The Sun is an album borne of just that. For her second long-player, A...

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Album Review: Into It. Over It. – Figure

Lauren MullineauxSeptember 22, 2020

Evan Weiss has had a tough time of it. Since his last outing as Into It. Over It. his life has come apart at the seams, and Figure, his first record in four ye...

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Album Review: Daniel Romano – How Ill Thy World Is Ordered

Josh SandSeptember 21, 2020

There are two very different contexts available for approaching How Ill Thy World Is Ordered. The first, and most likely, is that this is your introduction to ...

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Album Review: Sinead O’Brien – Drowning in Blessings EP

Conor LochrieSeptember 21, 2020

Something strikes you when "Most Modern Painting”, the first track on Irish performer Sinead O’Brien’s debut EP Drowning in Blessings, begins: the musicality o...

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Live Review: Perfume Genius at The Palace Theater, Los Angeles – September 19, 2020

Jeremy J. FisetteSeptember 20, 2020

Decked out in a wide brown suit and a tank top, Mike Hadreas (aka Perfume Genius) looked right at home on the stage for his livestream concert on September 19 ...

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Album Review: Fenne Lily – BREACH

Rob HakimianSeptember 18, 2020

Fenne Lily may only be in her early 20s, but she’s matured significantly since the release of her 2018 debut album On Hold. While that was a set of heartbroken...

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