Album Reviews

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  Danny Brown and JPEGMAFIA Blow Shit Up on 'SCARING THE HOES'

  PUBLISHED Mar 28, 2023

  Danny Brown and JPEGMAFIA are hip-hop's most evenly matched odd couple. A duo known individually for their signature off-kilter styles, bot...

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  Murray A. Lightburn Excavates the Past on 'Once Upon a Time in Montreal'

  PUBLISHED Mar 28, 2023

  The music of the Dears is inextricably linked with Montreal, most subliminally in its ambitious arrangements, echoing Quebecers' love for p...

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  Lana Del Rey Is Lost in Thought on the Radiant 'Did you know that there's a tunnel under Ocean Blvd'

  PUBLISHED Mar 27, 2023

  A shift occured about halfway through Lana Del Rey's 2017 album Lust for Life, the turning point marked by a song called "Coachella – Woods...

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  Depeche Mode Are Reborn on 'Memento Mori'

  PUBLISHED Mar 27, 2023

  Depeche Mode's greatest strength may be their resiliency amid chaos. Over the past 42 years, it's been that ability to pivot that's kept th...

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  boygenius Are Together for the Hell of It on 'the record'

  PUBLISHED Mar 27, 2023

  When Julien Baker, Phoebe Bridgers and Lucy Dacus first formed their supergroup in 2018, they were tired of being lumped together by labels...

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  DEBBY FRIDAY Makes Her Own 'GOOD LUCK'

  PUBLISHED Mar 24, 2023

  Coming of age can be crushing. For many, there's often much in transitioning from adolescence to adulthood that they'd rather leave behind....

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  Softcult Face the Abyss on 'see you in the dark'

  PUBLISHED Mar 23, 2023

  In 2013, John Doran declared that m b v, the highly-anticipated third LP from My Bloody Valentine, a whole 22 years in the making, had simp...

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  Liturgy's '93696' Burns with Fury and Ecstasy

  PUBLISHED Mar 23, 2023

  Every artistic decision and mark of evolution that Ravenna Hunt-Hendrix has made under the umbrella of Liturgy has been in service of her q...