Album Reviews

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  Agriculture's Self-Titled Record Is Ablaze with Joyous Noise

  PUBLISHED Jul 18, 2023

  Black metal has a reputation for being a somewhat gloomy and melancholic affair, and a quick glance at the genre's sordid history illustrat...

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  Paul Langois Finds Hard-Won Clarity on 'Guess What'

  PUBLISHED Jul 14, 2023

  At this point, you know exactly what you're getting from Paul Langlois's new album, Guess What — and that's a good thing. It's Canadiana at...

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  The Heady 'Rajan' Finds Night Beats at His Most Precise and Mature

  PUBLISHED Jul 11, 2023

  Danny Lee Blackwell works well in mystery. Over the past fourteen years, Night Beats has been his creative outlet for outlaw music with a b...

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  Little Dragon Put Themselves First on 'Slugs of Love'

  PUBLISHED Jul 6, 2023

  In a statement released along with the album announcement back in May, Little Dragon called Slugs of Love their "masterpiece." While master...

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  The Alchemist Rises Above the Rest on 'Flying High'

  PUBLISHED Jul 4, 2023

  The Alchemist has been a pillar in hip-hop since he came onto the scene as one-half of the Whooliganz and as a producer for acts like Dilat...

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  Grian Chatten Soars Solo on 'Chaos for the Fly'

  PUBLISHED Jun 30, 2023

  Often, when an artist in a worldwide popular band decides to go solo, one of two things can happen: the new solo project sounds eerily simi...

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  Sweeping Promises Dread the Easy Life on 'Good Living Is Coming for You'

  PUBLISHED Jun 29, 2023

  When Sweeping Promises' Hunger for a Way Out dropped midway through 2020, it almost seemed as though the post-punk duo's debut had material...

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  Lucinda Williams's 'Stories from a Rock n Roll Heart' Are Tales to Live By

  PUBLISHED Jun 28, 2023

  Stories from a Rock n Roll Heart, Lucinda Williams's latest, is just that — all heart. In 2020, at the age of 67, the legendary songwriter...