Category: New Music
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Sinister Grift by Panda Bear | Album Review
Put down that SP-404 and grab yourself a beer! Panda Bear’s latest solo record delves into psychedelic rock and dub pop, following in the footsteps of the recent Animal Collective forays across Isn’t it Now? and Time Skiffs. The result is remarkably fresh – who knew the guitar could still sound this good in 2025?…
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Death Jokes | Album Review
Amen Dunes new album makes light of self-placed pressures and imagines a time capsule of music and how it might read after death. Death Jokes is chalk-full of samples, drumbreaks and inside jokes reminding one not to take life so seriously.
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Only God Was Above Us | Album Review
Only God Was Above Us is an electric new album from Vampire Weekend, combining a brilliant medley of new sounds and influences into their classic indie legend style.
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Free Your Mind | Album Review
Free Your Mind by Amnesty; the eponymous seventies record that never was. Impromptu ballads and mass advice splattered against a backdrop of Latin-tinged horns, bassline cardiograms, hopscotch percussion and post-Motown vocals. That’s the picture, mister. Just add funk and free your mind. The LP was never released prior to 2006, when it was reissued on…
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Bright Future | Album Review
In 2020 when life was cut short and everyone went home to await further guidance in isolation, the members of Big Thief were caught in the middle of a multi-legged tour. Cancelling the remaining shows, they retreated to old haunts while vocalist, Adrianne Lenker, rented a small cabin out in the western Massachusetts mountains. Here,…
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I Got Heaven | Album Review
Mannequin Pussy are at the perfect point in their music. On their senior record I Got Heaven, they marry the iconic furiosity of past materials to romantic epiphany in a mangling, twisting, messy feast of bleeding-heart rock. While navigating multiple forced hiatuses, Covid-19 recording limbo, losing rights to their masters, and the theft of a…
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What Now by Brittany Howard | Album Review
Brittany Howard groooves on What Now, a wavy neo-soul collage written in bright letters cut from magazines. Coming off an indefinite hiatus in 2018 with the rock band Alabama Shakes, Howard moved into her solo arc with Jaime, a blaringly tender, yet stripped down, record exploring precisely where soul music diverges from being a label…
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New Blue Sun by André 3000 | Album Review
Yes, the new Blue album is here. That New Blue sum’ all the way from Stankonia, GA. How far has it traveled to get into your ears? Maybe not that far. Maybe you’re just a freeway or terminal away from the cafés and airports and airport cafés where a man stands playing a flute for…
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Rediscovery
Waves lurched from a green waterfall overlooking Old Nice, and suspended in the current beneath its showering gaze, swam a coin. One euro, tossed into the overgrown pool in exchange for a wish by someone’s someone. That wish now granted or ignored, but more importantly forgotten. The euro lied mostly dormant. Heavy rain shuffled it…
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GUTS by Olivia Rodrigo | Album Review
Corporate-manufactured nostalgia for the early 2000s is back with Olivia Rodrigo’s Guts – the sophomore release from the HSMTMTS star that we are far too old to be watching on Disney+. Since breaking into the pop scene in early 2021, its been impossible to avoid Rodrigo’s music across Tiktoks and Targets worldwide. To celebrate the…
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