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Album Review: Alexis Castrogiovanni – Some Day My Thoughts Will Be Like A Range Of Mountains

Ray Finlayson·November 2, 2022

Like her peers, Alexis Castrogiovanni seeks to move outwith the limitations of her education. A classically trained cellist,...

Ray Finlayson·November 1, 2022

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

Carlo Thomas·November 1, 2022

I haven’t been in the mood to celebrate anything… for reasons personal, political, existential, oftentimes in some lousy...

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...