Album Reviews

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  Ratboys Have Never Been Better on 'The Window'

  PUBLISHED Aug 25, 2023

  It took a while for Ratboys to find stability. For almost a decade, the Chicago indie rockers were essentially a duo with a revolving door...

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  Spanish Love Songs Are Battered but Never Beaten on 'No Joy'

  PUBLISHED Aug 25, 2023

  Spanish Love Songs released their third record Brave Faces Everyone in February of 2020, a darkly funny time to put out a breakout album of...

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  Blut Aus Nord's 'Disharmonium - Nahab' Contemplates the Unimaginable

  PUBLISHED Aug 24, 2023

  With Disharmonium - Nahab, iconic experimental French black metal outfit Blut Aus Nord return to the psychedelic realms of Lovecraftian con...

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  Buck Meek Climbs Higher on 'Haunted Mountain'

  PUBLISHED Aug 23, 2023

  Since encountering Adrianne Lenker in 2014, Buck Meek has been a quietly essential half of the yin/twang relationship at the heart of Big T...

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  myst milano. Forges Through the Fakery on 'Beyond the Uncanny Valley'

  PUBLISHED Aug 23, 2023

  "I offer Beyond the Uncanny Valley as a working anthology of Black electronic music across generational, geographical and genre lines," Tor...

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  The Armed Are Everything at Once on 'Perfect Saviours'

  PUBLISHED Aug 22, 2023

  The Armed are a band who, in the past, have been a lot of things at once: ambiguous, anonymous, hyperbolic and wholly mysterious. That is,...

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  Silks' 'Pressure Waves' Is a Heavy-Hitting Psychedelic Potion

  PUBLISHED Aug 18, 2023

  On their shockingly fully-formed debut album, Silks boil a cauldron of vastly different genres into a heavy-hitting psychedelic potion. Fiv...

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  Dizzy's Self-Titled Album Is a Silk-Wrapped Dagger

  PUBLISHED Aug 17, 2023

  A few months ago, with hot tears stinging my eyes, I told a person I loved in a hungry sort of way that I hated them for destroying me. "I...