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Album Review: Damien Jurado – The Monster Who Hated Pennsylvania

John Amen·May 18, 2021

With The Monster Who Hated Pennsylvania, Damien Jurado continues to express his exceptional talent for melody and postmodern narrative. Offering 10...

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Album Review: Juliana Hatfield – Blood

Carlo Thomas·May 18, 2021

The cover art for Blood — the 19th solo album by rock mainstay Juliana Hatfield — is beautifully,...

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Album Review: Sons of Kemet – Black To The Future

Jasper WIllems·May 17, 2021

While the cultural discourse remains ever too preoccupied trying to crystallize the moment, the tireless Shabaka Hutchings stresses...

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Album Review: McKinley Dixon – For My Mama and Anyone Who Look Like Her

Conor Lochrie·May 17, 2021

In an excellent Guardian essay, released only last month, Jason Okundaye discussed the rise of ‘black trauma porn’....

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Album Review: St. Vincent – Daddy’s Home

Tim Sentz·May 14, 2021

Annie Clark has been killing it for over a decade now – not just interviews – she’s delivered...

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Album Review: Lionel Boy – Lionel Boy

Chase McMullen·May 14, 2021

Lionel Boy makes tunes for a summer that, for many of us, feels like it will never come....

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Album Review: Paris Texas – BOY ANONYMOUS

John Amen·May 13, 2021

With their eight-track debut, Boy Anonymous, Louie Pastel and Felix, aka Paris Texas, seamlessly interweave the perennial machismo...

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Album Review: Wy – Marriage

Ray Finlayson·May 13, 2021

Over a contrasting chirpy, backtracked loop and a bleary-eyed guitar riff, Ebba Gustafsson Ågren sings the first words...

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Album Review: India Jordan – Watch Out! EP

Rob Hakimian·May 12, 2021

India Jordan makes music for a non-stop world. Their breakthrough EP, last year’s For You, was perfect for...

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Album Review: Dorothea Paas – Anything Can’t Happen

Caillou Pettis·May 12, 2021

Dorothea Paas’s Anything Can’t Happen opens up with a soothing guitar and a melodic vocal backing from the...

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