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Album Review: STRFKR – Future Past Life

Ray Finlayson·April 20, 2020

From their conception, STRFKR have always been playing with push and pull. Their name represents “all [we] didn’t...

Kyle Kohner·April 17, 2020

Just like Black midi, Shame, Famous, and the mysterious Black Country, New Road, the equally puzzling Jerskin Fendrix...

Mimi Kenny·April 16, 2020

It’s not easy to be minimalist and distinct, but Madeline Johnston pulls it off. As Midwife, the Denver...

Ana Leorne·April 15, 2020

In his drug-fueled memoirs Flash ou le Grand Voyage, French writer Charles Duchaussois describes all intoxicating substances as...

Todd Dedman·April 14, 2020

There is something about Hamilton Leithauser that is difficult to truly grasp. Eternally a nearly man, history will...

Ray Finlayson·April 13, 2020

During these strange, worrying, and almost entirely indoor times, all music takes on a new quality: everything becomes quarantine...

Ray Finlayson·April 10, 2020

Over the past 12 years Laura Marling has done the enormous task of proving herself over and over – not...

Rob Hakimian·April 9, 2020

A Western Circular is the first album released under the moniker Wilma Archer, but Will Archer is by...

Grady Penna·April 8, 2020

Lorely Rodriguez’s debut album as Empress Of was a bold foray into the modern pop sphere. Simply titled...

Rob Hakimian·April 7, 2020

It Is What It Is is the fourth album from Stephen Bruner under his Thundercat moniker, and it’s...