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Album Review: ZOMBIE-CHANG – TAKE ME AWAY FROM TOKYO

Chase McMullenSeptember 10, 2020

TAKE ME AWAY FROM TOKYO, much like its all-caps title (and its evocative meaning), is a damn thunderclap. COVID-19 be damned, you’d have to be in a sweaty, din...

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Album Review: Lomelda – Hannah

Grady PennaSeptember 4, 2020

In the daily swirl of misinformation, social media anonymity, and public officials outright lying on a national scale, honesty is starting to feel like a rare ...

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Album Review: Girl Friday – Androgynous Mary

Kyle KohnerAugust 25, 2020

Gracing the cover art of Girl Friday's debut album Androgynous Mary is an ambiguous image. Doused in dreamy blue hues, an elderly individual, androgynous, sits...

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Album Review: Young Jesus – Welcome to Conceptual Beach

Kyle KohnerAugust 17, 2020

With a sound that pushes harder and more sophisticated than most indie rock, Young Jesus deserves your attention—and it stems from the man behind every iterati...

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Album Review: The Microphones – Microphones in 2020

Rob HakimianAugust 7, 2020

The true state of all things: Phil Elverum does not care about your expectations or preconceived notions. Earlier this year, when he announced he would be rele...

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Album Review: Rival Consoles – Articulation

Todd DedmanAugust 6, 2020

Emotional depth is often difficult to achieve in electronic music. The often neutered and sanitised textures of technology obscure the more personal elements a...

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Album Review: Jessy Lanza – All The Time

Rob HakimianJuly 30, 2020

Jessy Lanza’s three albums have all been sets of tightly-written and pristinely-produced pop songs, compacted into 40 minutes – but their slightness belies the...

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Album Review: Protomartyr – Ultimate Success Today

Michael CyrsJuly 20, 2020

Protomartyr frontman Joe Casey must read quite a lot. On the band's 2014 track "Maidenhead" he retold a dark tale from a 1941 novel by British author and playw...

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Album Review: Crack Cloud – Pain Olympics

Kyle KohnerJuly 17, 2020

Against the backdrop of Canada's opioid crisis, Vancouver multimedia collective Crack Cloud are keeping hope and artistic singularity burning brightly. This fa...

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Album Review: Gordi – Our Two Skins

Gareth O'MalleyJune 30, 2020

Written amidst upheaval on a personal and national scale, the new album from Australian Sophie Payten offers a starkly beautiful reimagining of the sound she e...

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