Category: Release Reviews
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Album Review: Laurel Hell
On her new full-length, indie pop icon Mitski quashes rumors of retirement, breaks out into a new direction.
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One of music’s most talked-about pieces of lost media is now available online. How does it sound, and how does it relate to the GY!BE discography as a whole?
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Album Review: Fits of Laughter
On their major-label debut, Kentucky folk dealers Bendigo Fletcher transcend space and time, and have fun doing it.
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Album Review: Earthling
Eddie Vedder’s highly-anticipated solo full-length falls flat, wears its “soft 70s” influences on its sleeve.
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Album Review: Pompeii
With a focus on rhythm, Cate Le Bon’s artsy, wave-y sixth offering cements her ability to evolve with each album while retaining the strengths of what came before.
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Album Review: Goon
For Valentine’s Week, take a listen to the 47-minute sonic tragedy that is Tobias Jesso Jr’s only LP release.
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Album Review: Kid A Mnesia
In combining two iconic albums into one package with a disc of bonus tracks, Radiohead give the listener a musical reissue with an artistic, unique mode of consumption.
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Album Review: Mortal Glitch
With over thirty releases under his belt, percussionist Mike Kuun explores new sonic territory with his latest, a blistering 13-track, nineteen-minute effort.
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Album Review: A La Mar
Drawing from a wide range of influences from South America and beyond, Colombia’s Vicente García paints a picture of loneliness on his sophomore LP.
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Album Review: Flight of the Conchords
Flight of the Conchord’s eponymous debut album is comedy music for the ages. Full of hilarious jokes and eclectic musical styles, this record showed just how brilliant comedy music can be.
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