Album Reviews

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  Justin Townes Earle's Posthumous 'All In: Unreleased & Rarities (The New West Years)' Is a Bittersweet Farewell

  PUBLISHED Aug 8, 2024

  Covering Fleetwood Mac's biggest hit is a tall order, even for a performer and interpreter as gifted as Justin Townes Earle...

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  Ravyn Lenae Looks at Life with a 'Bird's Eye' on Her Sterling Sophomore Album

  PUBLISHED Aug 7, 2024

  Two years after her debut album 'HYPNOS,' Ravyn Lenae returns with 'Bird's Eye.' Another smorgasbord of the fluttery falsettos, iridescent ...

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  Respire's 'Hiraeth' Is Pure Sound and Fury

  PUBLISHED Jul 26, 2024

  Respire are a difficult band to categorize. While certain parts are somewhat easy to parse out — they're a diverse collective that fuses ...

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  Just Like the Real Year 2000, Ice Spice's 'Y2K!' Is a Big Buildup to a Bit of a Letdown

  PUBLISHED Jul 26, 2024

  The Y2K phenomenon was a big buildup to something that turned out to be an over-hyped anticlimax. In the months before the millennium...

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  The Red Clay Strays Are Made for the Spotlight on 'Made by These Moments'

  PUBLISHED Jul 25, 2024

  You don't sell out Nashville's historic Ryman Auditorium three nights in a row if you're not making good music. But Alabama's...

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  Childish Gambino's 'Bando Stone & the New World' Is a Frantic Goodbye

  PUBLISHED Jul 24, 2024

  Donald Glover is undeniably one of the most talented — or at the very least ambitious — artists of his era. The multi-hyphenate has made ...

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  'No Name' Is Jack White’s Ferocious Return to Old-School Punk Blues

  PUBLISHED Jul 22, 2024

  When Jack White first went solo more than a decade ago, a big part of the fun was hearing the ways in which he expanded his sound after the...

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  Glass Animals' 'I Love You So F***ing Much' Is Barely Worth Critiquing

  PUBLISHED Jul 22, 2024

  I hate "Heat Waves." The line "you look so broken when you cry" (Dave Bayley must be an empath), the shrill, near-intolerable vocals...