Album Reviews

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  Yves Tumor Throws Psychic Fisticuffs on 'Praise a Lord Who Chews but Which Does Not Consume; (Or Simply, Hot Between Worlds)'

  PUBLISHED Mar 16, 2023

  With their fifth studio album — the lengthily titled Praise a Lord Who Chews but Which Does Not Consume; (Or Simply, Hot Between Worlds) —...

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  M83 Reaches for Familiar Heights on the Shimmering 'Fantasy'

  PUBLISHED Mar 14, 2023

  Anticipation was high for Fantasy. The first proper artist album from M83 in seven years — a soundtrack for his brother's Knife + Heart fil...

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  Fever Ray's 'Radical Romantics' Is Ferociously Tender

  PUBLISHED Mar 10, 2023

  "I just wanna be touched / I just wanna shiver"; in two lines, Karin Dreijer more or less sums up the driving force behind their horny, ten...

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  Altin Gün Reignite on the Fiery 'Aşk'

  PUBLISHED Mar 9, 2023

  Altin Gün love what they do. The Amsterdam-based psychedelic sextet have been thoughtfully mining the canon of Turkish folk for only a hand...

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  ​Frankie Rose's 'Love as Projection' Reflects the Halcyon Days of 2009 Indie Rock

  PUBLISHED Mar 8, 2023

  Frankie Rose used to be the ringer of Brookyln indie rock, serving time behind the drums in buzz bands Dum Dum Girls and Crystal Stilts, an...

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  Witchrot Transcend the Chatter on 'Live in the Hammer'

  PUBLISHED Mar 7, 2023

  Most people who know Witchrot's name learned it the same way — that infamous 2018 Facebook post that sent the Toronto band viral, in which...

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  Growth Isn't Always Pretty on slowthai's 'Ugly'

  PUBLISHED Mar 3, 2023

  slowthai's debut album Nothing Great About Britain was a frenzied capsule of disaffection and anger, one that tackled nationalist pride and...

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  Kali Uchis Unfurls on the Sensual, Lovestruck 'Red Moon in Venus'

  PUBLISHED Mar 3, 2023

  At this point, Kali Uchis has solidified herself as both pop juggernaut and high-fantasy storyteller — listen to the slow-boil smash hit "T...