Album Reviews

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  Camila Cabello's 'C,XOXO' Nearly Sticks the Landing

  PUBLISHED Jul 2, 2024

  It would be easy to pick on Camila Cabello. The painfully obvious rebrand she underwent for her fourth solo album conjures images of ...

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  Guided by Voices' 'Strut of Kings' Is a Little Wobbly

  PUBLISHED Jun 27, 2024

  Like sands in an hourglass, so are the albums of Guided by Voices. While a handful of their 25 albums released since their reformation ...

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  Hiatus Kaiyote's 'Love Heart Cheat Code' Is the Future Soul JavaScript

  PUBLISHED Jun 27, 2024

  I don't know how much 'Love Heart Cheat Code' — the fourth studio album from Australian quartet Hiatus Kaiyote — is actually meant to take ...

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  Mabe Fratti Has More Questions Than Answers on 'Sentir que no sabes'

  PUBLISHED Jun 26, 2024

  Mabe Fratti would make a good Oracle. In thinking of a tidy aesthetic phylum to classify the Guatemalan cellist, singer and composer's work...

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  Jamboree Mourn the Salad Days on 'Summerland'

  PUBLISHED Jun 26, 2024

  It rises from the prairie landscape as a defiant obelisk. Two sixteen-story towers joined together by an all-embracing tropical atrium ...

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  Islands Sail into the Sunset on 'What Occurs'

  PUBLISHED Jun 26, 2024

  There's a sense of finality floating on the sun-warmed waters of 'What Occurs,' the tenth album by Islands, the near two-decade-old ...

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  Kehlani Is Living Well on the Careening 'Crash'

  PUBLISHED Jun 25, 2024

  These days, our main pop girls work in feedback loops. They live in, respond to and build on the lore that surrounds them — no questions...

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  Pond Aren't Quite Sharp Enough on 'Stung!'

  PUBLISHED Jun 20, 2024

  Can the joy of experimentation go rote? If anybody knows, it would be Australian headcases Pond. Their kitchen-sink approach...