Music Reviews
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The Smile Wall of Eyes
The celebrated Radiohead offshoot adopts a looser, more cinematic expression on their follow-up to 2022's A Light for Attracting Attention.
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Green Day Saviors
The East Bay veterans blend their politics with heartfelt arena rock anthems. What else did you expect?
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Beirut Hadsel
The idyllic Norwegian town of Hadsel informs Zach Condon's first album in four years.
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Cupid & Psyche Romantic Music
The former Abe Vigoda songwriters reunite with a marginally new sound: gauzy, hook-driven dream pop with shades of 80s' sophisti-pop.
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SPELLLING SPELLLING & The Mystery School
SPELLLING, (a.k.a. Chrystia Cabral), reconsiders a selection of songs from prior works for her latest LP, SPELLLING & The Mystery School. Don’t call it a covers album.
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Ratboys The Window
Following their 2020 breakthrough release, Printer's Devil, the Julia Steiner-fronted band moves away from their folk leanings to a degree in favor of fuzzy alt-country.
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The Hives The Death of Randy Fitzsimmons
On their first album in eleven years, the Swedish garage rock stalwarts retain their feral energy with a rejuvenated spirit.
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Cut Worms Cut Worms
On his third Cut Worms album, Max Clarke delivers his sharpest set of songs yet in what amounts to a breezy compact offering.
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Sweeping Promises Good Living is Coming For You
The lo-fi tinged new wave of Lira Mondel and Caufield Schnug emerges with tuneful pop smarts that could've ignited any college rock scene in the early eighties.
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King Krule Space Heavy
Dark and sonically cavernous, Archy Marshall's fourth release as King Krule fills the innermost spaces of his soul with glacial rhythms that vacillate with tension and release.
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