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Album Review: Black Country, New Road – For The First Time

Kyle KohnerFebruary 5, 2021

For as long as they've been making a ruckus together (which is only a few years now), London's Black Country, New Road have drawn comparisons to the ubiquitous...

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Album Review: Divide and Dissolve – Gas Lit

Todd DedmanFebruary 3, 2021

There is undeniable beauty in crushing volume. From the synaesthesia-inducing repetition of Sunn O))) to The Body’s raucous squall, through to Moor Mother’s au...

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Album Review: Portrayal of Guilt – We Are Always Alone

Andy JohnstonJanuary 29, 2021

Existence is horror. Strongly agree Agree Neutral ...

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Album Review: Ichiko Aoba – Windswept Adan

Chase McMullenDecember 4, 2020

Ichiko Aoba is truly the personification of slow and steady wins the race. She’s never gone for forced grand gestures, nor made any strides to awkwardly court ...

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Album Review: Liturgy – Origin of the Alimonies

Todd DedmanNovember 26, 2020

This is how Liturgy were always destined to end up – producing a work of such complete and utter, bewildering wonderment. But nobody expected it to be this goo...

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Album Review: Adrianne Lenker – songs + instrumentals

Rob HakimianOctober 26, 2020

Big Thief always record in rural locations, but for her new record, their singer Adrianne Lenker went even more rustic. When she and the band were pulled off t...

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Album Review: Ela Minus – acts of rebellion

Chase McMullenOctober 23, 2020

Ela Minus is now. There’s simply no other way to put it. Given its confrontational title, her debut album acts of rebellion isn’t, generally speaking, as overt...

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Album Review: Tatsuhisa Yamamoto – Ashioto

Chase McMullenOctober 21, 2020

You could be forgiven for not knowing it, but Tatsuhisa Yamamoto has had one hell of a year. Doesn’t that feel nice to hear? At least one of us has. More to th...

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Album Review: Open Mike Eagle – Anime, Trauma and Divorce

Tim SentzOctober 16, 2020

In the pantheon of emotive music out there, none can be as truly devastating as the explicit detail of a relationship breaking down. Such is the pilgrimage L.A...

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Album Review: Fleet Foxes – Shore

Rob HakimianSeptember 29, 2020

Fleet Foxes releasing their new album, Shore, at the exact moment of the autumnal equinox is extremely on-brand for the band’s image, but quite uncharacteristi...

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