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Album Review: Young Jesus – Welcome to Conceptual Beach

Kyle Kohner·August 17, 2020

With a sound that pushes harder and more sophisticated than most indie rock, Young Jesus deserves your attention—and...

Rob Hakimian·August 7, 2020

The true state of all things: Phil Elverum does not care about your expectations or preconceived notions. Earlier...

Todd Dedman·August 6, 2020

Emotional depth is often difficult to achieve in electronic music. The often neutered and sanitised textures of technology...

Rob Hakimian·July 30, 2020

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

Michael Cyrs·July 20, 2020

Protomartyr frontman Joe Casey must read quite a lot. On the band’s 2014 track “Maidenhead” he retold a...

Kyle Kohner·July 17, 2020

Against the backdrop of Canada’s opioid crisis, Vancouver multimedia collective Crack Cloud are keeping hope and artistic singularity...

Written amidst upheaval on a personal and national scale, the new album from Australian Sophie Payten offers a...

Kyle Kohner·June 29, 2020

Within the homogenized mass of modern pop music, few artists can claim true singularity. But, after a decade...

Rob Hakimian·June 16, 2020

Kate NV’s previous album, 2018’s для FOR, was a sonic ode to her hometown of Moscow – but...

Todd Dedman·June 10, 2020

Russian duo Kristina Karpysheva and Alexander Letsius are 404.zero, audio-visual creators whose debut album places them firmly amongst...