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Album Review: Islands – Islomania

Tim SentzJune 11, 2021

It’s been five years since the last one-two punch from Nick Thorburn’s Islands – 2016’s double header of Taste and Should I Remain in Sea? showcased the band’s...

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Album Review: Loraine James – Reflection

Jasper WIllemsJune 10, 2021

Few music terms are as archaic, constrained and decisively stupid as ‘IDM’ (‘Intelligent Dance Music’), and using it without so much as an asterisk attached re...

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Album Review: Rostam – Changephobia

Ben CohnJune 10, 2021

Rostam’s song “Bike Dream”, off his first solo record Half-Light, contains the great verse “Two boys: one to kiss your neck / and one to bring you breakfast / ...

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Album Review: Greentea Peng – MAN MADE

Rob HakimianJune 9, 2021

Greentea Peng is here to be heard, but she’s not making noise just for the sake of it. As she makes abundantly clear on “Make Noise” and “This Sound”, the open...

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Album Review: Louien – No Tomorrow EP

Conor LochrieJune 9, 2021

Norway has one of the strongest folk traditions out of all European countries (including one of their finest exports, Kings of Convenience, who are returning t...

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Album Review: Lloyd Banks – The Course of the Inevitable

Chase McMullenJune 8, 2021

How many rappers can say they’ve properly arrived four times? Since his earliest G-Unit days, Lloyd Banks has been eating up anyone who dares to get on a track...

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Album Review: Penelope Trappes – Penelope Three

Conor LochrieJune 8, 2021

Penelope Trappes may have been born in Australia but it makes more sense that she’s now based in the UK once you hear her new album, Penelope Three. Its discom...

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Album Review: Japanese Breakfast – Jubilee

John WohlmacherJune 7, 2021

Yellow is a funny color. Not because it possesses any promise of instant gratification or anti-depressive quality, even though many an interior designer has to...

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Album Review: Raheem DeVaughn & Apollo Brown – Lovesick

John AmenJune 7, 2021

With his ninth album, Lovesick, R&B singer Raheem DeVaughn teams up with producer Apollo Brown, mining romantic and sexual tropes as on previous releases, ...

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Album Review: Pan Daijing – Jade 玉观音

Chase McMullenJune 4, 2021

Pan Daijing is not here to be your friend. Your put-upon, beleaguered guide? Perhaps, but at a price. It’s no joke: her new album Jade 玉观音 is, to put it lightl...

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