Album Reviews

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  Crosslegged Paints with a Multitude of Colours on 'Another Blue'

  PUBLISHED Jan 26, 2023

  To open up the sparse Bandcamp liner notes to her 2015 album Speck, Keba Robinson (AKA Crosslegged) wrote: "Tried some new things." To conc...

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  John Cale Is Still a Force on 'MERCY'

  PUBLISHED Jan 26, 2023

  The 17th studio album from Wales' reigning musical wizard — and his first in a decade — MERCY proves that, in his seventh decade of creatio...

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  Samia Swings Big on the Sweet, Striving 'Honey'

  PUBLISHED Jan 25, 2023

  Nashville-via-NYC songwriter Samia Najimy Finnerty's The Baby was one of 2020's more promising debuts, fitting in nicely with similar alter...

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  The C.I.A. Work with Anxious Precision on 'Surgery Channel'

  PUBLISHED Jan 23, 2023

  If there were ever a record whose title lines up perfectly with the sonics found within, it's Surgery Channel. The sophomore record from De...

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  Mac DeMarco's 'Five Easy Hot Dogs' Has Chill Beats to Study/Relax To

  PUBLISHED Jan 19, 2023

  Back in 2017, Mac DeMarco led the Colbert band in a lavish, horn-filled rendition of "One Another," in which the velvet-voiced DeMarco soun...

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  Atsuko Chiba Are Fluid and Furious on 'Water, It Feels Like It's Growing'

  PUBLISHED Jan 18, 2023

  Atsuko Chiba's latest album demands, but also harmoniously rewards, repeat listens. The Montreal five-piece's third full-length, Water, It...

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  Kali Malone's 'Does Spring Hide Its Joy' Is a Beacon of Possibility

  PUBLISHED Jan 18, 2023

  For Colorado native Kali Malone, finding the right tuning and harmony is a way of life. At 16, she met Swedish composer Ellen Arkbro at a N...

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  July Talk Look to the Future on 'Remember Never Before'

  PUBLISHED Jan 17, 2023

  Somehow, it's already been a decade since July Talk broke out with their self-titled debut LP. Dominated by bombastic bluesy-riffs and the...