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Album Review: Otoboke Beaver – Super Champon

Ray Finlayson·May 30, 2022

Fun and fury transcend language, which is all to the benefit of Japanese quartet Otoboke Beaver – but...

Tim Sentz·May 27, 2022

Chicago trio Dehd know a thing or two about adaptation. The surf-punk threesome has honed their brand of...

John Amen·May 26, 2022

With his debut, Wellswood, singer-songwriter and poet Thomas Dollbaum revels in wistful melodies and thorny atmospherics, his compelling...

There’s something to be said for stripping things back. Lykke Li knows this notion well. The Swedish singer-songwriter...

Josh LaClair·May 24, 2022

It is nearly impossible to discuss Craig Finn without first mentioning his voice, and then attaching some sort...

Kristy Sawyer·May 23, 2022

How many former boy band artists can claim that Arcade Fire covered their song on BBC radio? One,...

Kyle Kohner·May 20, 2022

Porridge Radio have never made the most imaginative or riveting music, but their last album, Every Bad, felt...

Tom Williams·May 19, 2022

Hayden Silas Andhedönia – who performs under the name Ethel Cain – harbours the sort of innate understanding...

Tim Sentz·May 19, 2022

Kevin Morby’s an everyman living the American Dream. The Texas-born, Kansas City transplant singer-songwriter is 34 years old...

I’m not sure there’s any concise way to take on this album. I say “I” to very consciously...