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Album Review: Fleet Foxes – Shore

Rob HakimianSeptember 29, 2020

Fleet Foxes releasing their new album, Shore, at the exact moment of the autumnal equinox is extremely on-brand for the band’s image, but quite uncharacteristi...

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Album Review: Sylvan Esso – Free Love

Jeremy J. FisetteSeptember 29, 2020

The first thing you hear on Free Love, the new album from electronic pop duo Sylvan Esso, is a stuttering tone. It’s almost like the aural equivalent of a puff...

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Album Review: Deftones – Ohms

Tim SentzSeptember 28, 2020

Let’s get this out of the way first: Deftones are the only good thing to come out of the nu-metal age. While there are Limp Bizkit apologists still among us, i...

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Album Review: Bob Mould – Blue Hearts

Carlo ThomasSeptember 28, 2020

Leave it to a rock veteran to set the record straight: this isn’t the first time a President has let a public health crisis go unchecked. It took President Ron...

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Album Review: Shabason, Krgovich & Harris – Philadelphia

John WohlmacherSeptember 28, 2020

So much of the lore surrounding Philadelphia is centred on the aesthetics of Japanese New Age music, that it’s almost a shock that the album following the gorg...

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Album Review: Sufjan Stevens – The Ascension

Grady PennaSeptember 25, 2020

In the five years between Sufjan Stevens’ heart-wrenching masterpiece Carrie & Lowell and now, we haven’t heard a lot from him. Sure, he’s kept busy – rele...

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Album Review: IDLES – Ultra Mono

Kyle KohnerSeptember 25, 2020

As children, we are innocently subjected to the sheer power of nursery rhymes. Yes, there is power in the very simplistic and innocent nature of "Twinkle, Twin...

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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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