Music Reviews
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Hana Vu Public Storage
Steeped in alt-rock and new wave influences and "you can't prove this is about you" vagaries, Vu's full-length debut is just the right balance of melodrama, defiance, and inhibition.
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Silk Sonic An Evening with Silk Sonic
Funk legend Bootsy Collins, global megastar Bruno Mars, and scourge of auto-correct Anderson .Paak team up to... actually, why have they teamed up?
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Self Esteem Prioritise Pleasure
On her second album as Self Esteem, Rebecca Taylor makes her case as the popstar 2021 needs.
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Snail Mail Valentine
Lindsay Jordan's second LP feel as intimate as her debut, but it does not just come from a place of introspection—she turns outward a little more, and the results are positively exhilarating.
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The War on Drugs I Don't Live Here Anymore
On their fifth album, entitled I Don’t Live Here Anymore, our favorite synth-rockers treat us to a satisfying serving of what we need from them.
Ethan Gordon reviews... -
Bedouine Waysides
On her third album, the LA-based singer-songwriter revists a stockpile of songs she'd written over the years—nourishing and breathing new life into them.
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Parquet Courts Sympathy for Life
Following on the heels of the critically acclaimed, and dare we say fun-filled, Wide Awake!, the band’s latest finds them venturing out into more funk and dance-inspired territory.
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The World is a Beautiful Place & I Am No Longer Afraid to Die Illusory Walls
On their fourth LP, the Connecticut indie-rock collective continue to churn their life-affirming grand gestures with beautiful dark hues.
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Hovvdy True Love
The Austin duo of Charlie Martin and Will Taylor show best on True Love when they let things shine.
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illuminati hotties Let Me Do One More
Sarah Tudzin keeps her self-proclaimed promise of delivering “all riprs and no more skiprs” on her second LP, the cheekily titled Let Me Do One More—brimming with a joyful energy that feels equally confident and empowered.
Juan Edgardo Rodríguez reviews...
