Category: new music
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EP Review: kilonova – Dial Tone
On this debut EP, stark confessional outpourings capture a precocious talent at their most vulnerable.
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Indie-ish Roundup: September 2024
The good and not-so-good from the indie world in September. Featuring MJ Lenderman, The Dare, The Courettes, and more.
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Album Review: Joyce – Voyce
A review of the debut from Joyce; a chaotic kaleidoscope of noise with moments of beauty lurking beneath the squall.
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Album Review: The Courettes – The Soul Of…The Fabulous Courettes
The wide-eyed sweetness of Phil Spector girl-groups meets the wild-eyed garage rock psychedelia you’d uncover on a Nuggets compilation.
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Album Review: The Dare – What’s Wrong With New York
The debut from a fitting poster boy for the Indie Sleaze Revival; an unconvincing and annoying retread
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Album Review: The Heavy Heavy – One of a Kind
A review of the debut album from The Heavy Heavy. A tribute to psych-pop classics, that’s a little too in thrall to its influences.
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Hip-Hop Highlights: Summer 2024
JPEGMAFIA I LAY DOWN MY LIFE FOR YOU After Scaring The Hoes with Danny Brown last year, one of modern rap’s premier experimentalists returns with perhaps his most accessible album to date. Now, he’s hardly gone and made a pop-rap album, there’s still all the hallmarks of his frenzied production style, but the chaos is…
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Album Review: Bashy – Being Poor is Expensive
Contrasts and contradictions drive a thought-provoking study of growing up poor in Britain
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Album Review: Joey Valence & Brae – NO HANDS
Beasties style punk-rap brought up-to-date for the 2020’s
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Album Review: Childish Gambino – Bando Stone and The New World
Confusing, messy, and occasionally very good. We know by now that Donald Glover isn’t the type to stick to just one lane, but maybe 17 lanes all at once is a bad idea
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