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Album Review: Tatsuhisa Yamamoto – Ashioto

Chase McMullen·October 21, 2020

You could be forgiven for not knowing it, but Tatsuhisa Yamamoto has had one hell of a year....

Tim Sentz·October 16, 2020

In the pantheon of emotive music out there, none can be as truly devastating as the explicit detail...

Rob Hakimian·September 29, 2020

Fleet Foxes releasing their new album, Shore, at the exact moment of the autumnal equinox is extremely on-brand...

Chase McMullen·September 10, 2020

TAKE ME AWAY FROM TOKYO, much like its all-caps title (and its evocative meaning), is a damn thunderclap....

Grady Penna·September 4, 2020

In the daily swirl of misinformation, social media anonymity, and public officials outright lying on a national scale,...

Kyle Kohner·August 25, 2020

Gracing the cover art of Girl Friday‘s debut album Androgynous Mary is an ambiguous image. Doused in dreamy...

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...