Music Reviews
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Wolf Alice Blue Weekend
On their lush, expansive third LP, the North London quartet focus outward rather than inward—conveying their twentysomething unease in a way that's welcoming and not austere.
Juan Edgardo Rodríguez reviews... -
twenty one pilots Scaled and Icy
Given how much effort the Columbus, Ohio duo give into their album concepts, it's genuinely surprising how uninteresting their sixth LP sounds on the surface.
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Eric Church Heart & Soul
The Nashville-based country musician's triple album is a gamble in terms of length and ambition, filled with goofy experiments, clichés, his lovely voice, and some slightly awkward production.
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Sharon Van Etten epic Ten
The celebration of Sharon Van Etten's epic loses much of what makes the original great, but there are moments of revelation in these covers.
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Royal Blood Typhoons
On their tenacious third LP, the Brighton, UK duo lay down a danceable groove and stick by it—fusing pulverizing, pedal-driven fuzz over four-on-the-floor beats.
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SPIRIT OF THE BEEHIVE ENTERTAINMENT, DEATH
Getting lost in the Philadelphia trio's intersecting ideas is essential to the experience of their fourth album—and once you dive deeper into the hallucinatory lyrical content, you begin to get a better sense of their singular vision.
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Chad VanGaalen World’s Most Stressed Out Gardener
On his 8th album, the Calgary-based singer-songwriter plays to, and about, the cosmic through synthscapes and extraterrestrial effects. The result is a palpable push and pull that feels particularly of the moment, when a year-long pandemic’s end is in sight yet there’s still plenty to lose sleep over.
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Dry Cleaning New Long Leg
Led by singer Florence Shaw's droll, yet captivating monologues, the London post-punk quartet's push and pull between instruments and vocals gives their debut album its seductive tension. [Believe the Hype]
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Floatie Voyage Out
Voyage Out—the Chicago quartet’s debut—feels like a warm, 29-minute shot of hazy indie pop by way of math rock, equally comforting and a little claustrophobic.
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Esther Rose How Many More Times
The New Orleans-based artist brings you a tear, or two, for your beer on her third, and best, album to date.
Mark Moody reviews...