Category: New Music
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I Inside the Old Year Dying by PJ Harvey | Album Review
PJ Harvey, upon discovering a strayed twig poking through twill cloth and weave beset on courting her ire by way of irritability, is suddenly struck with inspiration while plucking absent mind-like at this ramshacklum branch. Her roving resumes, and she begins the creative exercise of cataloguing the known green things to better place this petty…
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And in the Darkness, Hearts Aglow by Weyes Blood | Album Review
As of 2019, Natalie Mering had accrued intrigue across the music world with a steady repertoire of releases, weaving a style that continued to grow into places already set in time by precursory albums. From the hauntological folk tales wistfully obscuring The Outside Room, to the emboldened awakening of voice carried in forlorn timbre through…
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Pocket Fantasy by Mamalarky | Album Review
Observations. An innocence exists in their simplicity and truthfulness. They ground our otherwise aloft minds, which have more of a tendency to wander into preoccupation than our other senses; they also aid in creating memories, sparking emotion and imagination in the present around us. Casio Grassy knoll Walkie-talkie Crescent moon aglow What do these things…
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Weezer (Blue Album) | Album Review and Marxist Reading
In Billy Joel fashion, artists have huge pressure to “get it right the first time” with their debut singles and album. First outings make or break careers, at best landing bands recording contracts and waves of fans and at worst a life sentence to a 9-5. Occasionally, a debut album has the power to define…
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Loveless | Album Review
At the start of the 1990s, shoegaze was on the rise. The alternative sub-genre defined by distorted guitars, dreamlike vocals, and layers upon layers of noisy effects had a hold on record labels and rock audiences alike. Synthesized from post punk and new wave influences of the previous era, British press lauded rising noise rock…
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A Foul Form by Osees | Album Review
So, it’s the middle of the week already. You’ve woken up, or you’re beginning the slow process. Bleary-eyed or not, the day moves forward. At some point you’re bound to get tired again, right? Perhaps it’s time to take a break from whatever you’re doing. Breaks are good for you; they allow your body and…
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Romantico by 800 Cherries | Album Review
You stumble upon a song that you like. Nice! You check out the rest of the album. Well-listened! You look up the band. Knowledge! They have a few other albums. Can’t wait! One of them was only available on cassette. Rough! No new music in over twenty years. Classic… Everyone has at least one of…
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Panda Bear & Sonic Boom: Reset Album Review
I recall listening to an episode of the hit internet radio show Time Crisis, hosted by Vampire Weekend’s Ezra Koenig and American painter and musician Jake Longstreth, where the pair interviewed guitarist Johnny Marr of The Smiths fame. When asked about the influences behind writing some of the most iconic guitar riffs of all time,…
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In Rainbows by Radiohead | Album of the Week
Twitch. BandCamp. OnlyFans. The un-deleteable U2 album on your phone. Bedroom pop. Lofi beats to relax/study to. The Tupac hologram. MLM schemes. What connects each of these cultural concepts? All are innovations in content and payment exchange, and all derive from Radiohead’s 2007 release of their seventh studio album, In Rainbows. Coming off of 2003’s…
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Conduit by machinegum | Album of the Week
In the wake of 2016’s Future Present Past, all looked finished for The Strokes. The EP’s standout “Threat of Joy” lamented the end of the band’s good old days, now living with, “the dice on parole.” With their obligations to The Strokes behind them, each band member pursued solo projects, chasing creative freedom that wasn’t…
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