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Album Review: Mabe Fratti – Será que ahora podremos entendernos

Openness is a messy thing. Especially when the means of communication makes for a murky transit between giver...

Carlo Thomas·July 1, 2021

Before the ubiquity of mobile cameras, making home videos was no easy task. Some may remember their parents...

Tim Sentz·July 1, 2021

So far, no two Lightning Bug records have sounded the same. The minimalism of their 2015 debut Floaters...

Conor Lochrie·July 1, 2021

Bristol-based artist Lucy Gooch first gained traction with the looping and layered 2020 EP Rushing, but her latest...

Ray Finlayson·June 30, 2021

Faye Webster‘s life doesn’t move fast – or at least that’s the impression you get from her music....

Tim Sentz·June 30, 2021

Brooklynites Pom Pom Squad are finally dropping their debut album. What started out as a solo project of...

John Amen·June 30, 2021

There’s something exciting about a debut. Perhaps we anticipate and respond to it as we would a birth,...

Tim Sentz·June 29, 2021

In the span of a decade, the ringleaders of upstart California posse Odd Future have taken over the...

There is a certain audacity in naming your album something that someone might use to deride it. The...

Conor Lochrie·June 29, 2021

Although it’s the birthplace of the poet Ted Hughes, West Yorkshire’s Calder Valley is probably better known recently...