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Album Review: Julianna Barwick – Healing is a Miracle

When Julianna Barwick released her debut album The Magic Place in 2011 the indie music world took notice....

Rob Hakimian·July 8, 2020

Little Kid’s Transfiguration Highway opens with a sharp melodic blast of harmonica and some lilting piano, and immediately...

The notion of the difficult second album has become a well-worn cliché, but Henry Green wasn’t sure there...

Todd Dedman·July 6, 2020

It takes exactly 22 seconds to fall in love with Forever Blue. By that point, the plaintive piano...

Tim Sentz·July 3, 2020

It seems as though Dream Wife exist merely to remind everyone that at one point Yeah Yeah Yeahs...

Rob Hakimian·July 3, 2020

If you couldn’t already tell from that album cover, Amnesia Scanner have no intention of being approachable. The...

Tim Sentz·July 2, 2020

All great shoegaze bands come to an end. Either by abandoning their roots (RIDE), or as a response...

Seb Grech·July 1, 2020

Mordechai is Khruangbin’s fourth release, having started with their hazy and delightful debut project The Universe Smiles Upon...

Mimi Kenny·July 1, 2020

Hailing from Taipei, Taiwan, Mong Tong 夢東 call themselves “a sample-based psychedelic trio”. The sampling and vocal duties...

Written amidst upheaval on a personal and national scale, the new album from Australian Sophie Payten offers a...