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Album Review: Fujiya & Miyagi – Slight Variations

Ray Finlayson·November 1, 2022

Fujiya & Miyagi don’t make big changes. The starkest shift they ever made was probably their lurch from...

Ray Finlayson·October 31, 2022

Junior Boys have always been switching things up. Sometimes it’s been almost imperceptible, like the languorous glossy sheen...

Tim Sentz·October 31, 2022

Knifeplay‘s primary songwriter TJ Strohmer recorded a handful of projects throughout the 2010s before starting this project as...

Kyle Kohner·October 28, 2022

“Cast the first stone, deafen the silence,” Julian Pratt ferociously calls to arms on the song “We Came...

Todd Dedman·October 27, 2022

In a pop landscape awash with bland simulacrum of authenticity, instant earworms for TikTok attention spans, banal hooks...

Lucas Martins·October 27, 2022

It’s not easy being an independent artist. The freedom of having no label to answer to often means...

Tim Sentz·October 26, 2022

In their heyday, the rugged blue-collar rockers Archers of Loaf were masters of noise. Making a splash in...

Lucas Martins·October 26, 2022

For some artists, going out of their way to defy easy characterization becomes part of their aesthetic. Never...

Rob Hakimian·October 25, 2022

Arctic Monkeys returned from their five year hiatus with a completely overhauled sound on 2018’s Tranquility Base Hotel...

Eddie Smith·October 25, 2022

Lowertown, with an unapologetic southern States’ twang, plough the rural, small-town aesthetic – despite their Atlanta origins. The...