Album Reviews

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  ODESZA Dance Themselves Clean on 'The Last Goodbye'

  PUBLISHED Jul 22, 2022

  After five years, the icosahedron is ready to descend one more time, but is there ever really a last goodbye? If you're asking Seattle-base...

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  WAKE Reimagine What Heavy Music Means on 'Thought Form Descent'

  PUBLISHED Jul 22, 2022

  WAKE have become an institution in Canadian heavy music. Starting out as an extremely raw grindcore band on 2014's False, then becoming a p...

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  Ty Segall Extends a Tense Greeting on 'Hello, Hi'

  PUBLISHED Jul 21, 2022

  Ty Segall has spent more than a decade exploring new nooks and crannies of garage rock, and he has defied expectations once again. His most...

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  iskwē and Tom Wilson's 'Mother Love' Is a Stunning Exercise in Contrasts

  PUBLISHED Jul 21, 2022

  iskwē and Tom Wilson's debut collaborative album, Mother Love, is a glorious wealth of contradictions. It begins with Wilson's voice counti...

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  The Sadies Claim 'Colder Streams' Is the Best Album Ever, and They Might Be Right

  PUBLISHED Jul 20, 2022

  "Colder Streams is, by far, the best record that has ever been made by anyone. Ever." So wrote the late, beloved Dallas Good of the Sadies...

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  Steve Lacy's Breakup Album 'Gemini Rights' Is in a League of Its Own

  PUBLISHED Jul 20, 2022

  Following in the tradition of many greats before him, Steve Lacy's latest effort is the lemonade squeezed from a sour relationship split. T...

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  Jack White Keeps Pushing the Envelope on 'Entering Heaven Alive'

  PUBLISHED Jul 18, 2022

  Anyone who has learned guitar at any point in the past couple of decades has probably fumbled their way through a Jack White riff at some p...

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  Lizzo Is 'Special,' Though the Music Isn't Always

  PUBLISHED Jul 18, 2022

  The music video for "About Damn Time," the infectious and glimmering lead single from Lizzo's fourth studio album, Special, opens on a grou...