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ALBUM REVIEW: Circa Waves – Sad Happy
Liverpudlian indie-rock outfit Circa Waves serve charred optimism in their latest full-length offering, ‘Sad Happy’. Read More
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ALBUM REVIEW: Slowly Slowly – Race Car Blues
‘Race Car Blues’ serves to be the first blistering full-length release from pop-punk/indie rock outfit Slowly Slowly in two years. Read More
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ALBUM REVIEW: Framing Hanley – Envy
Following a three-year long hiatus that ended in 2018, Nashville’s Framing Hanley have returned to the fold with their fourth full-length record, ‘Envy’. Read More
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EP REVIEW: Derek Sanders – My Rock And Roll Heart
Gorgeously simple and warm, ‘My Rock And Roll Heart’, the debut solo EP of Derek Sanders, graces a humbly expectant audience. Nothing about this release is flamboyant or frilled, rather authentic and glossed with the realism of the Mayday Parade vocalist. Read More
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ALBUM REVIEW: Our Mirage – Unseen Relations
For the first time in a year, German quartet Our Mirage are blessing our ear drums with the inexplicably chaotic ‘Unseen Relations’, an eleven-track moshfest sprinkled with grit and luminous possibility. Read More
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EP REVIEW: Cheerbleederz – Lobotany
Sugared indie-pop trio Cheerbleederz recline in the summer grass with the release of their new EP, ‘Lobotany’. Their no-frills, dig to the roots approach to making music is evident in the remedial tone of the four-track – even its sharpness is clean. Read More
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ALBUM REVIEW: Of Montreal – Ur Fun
‘Ur Fun’ is the sixteenth record from the sonically incandescent Of Montreal, and their first since 2018’s ‘White Is Relic/Irrealis Mood’. Read More
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ALBUM REVIEW: Gabrielle Aplin – Dear Happy
English singer/songwriter Gabrielle Aplin returns with her lush third LP, ‘Dear Happy’. After a few years estranged from full-length releases, Aplin returns sun-glazed and as sway-worthy as ever. Each track on this effort is clean, bubbly, and inexplicably gorgeous. Read More
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EP REVIEW: The Dead Rabbitts – Break The Static
Metalcore outfit The Dead Rabbitts are skidding back into the realm of shorter releases with their new EP, ‘Break The Static’. Read More
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ALBUM REVIEW: Bilmuri – Rich Sips
Ex-Attack Attack! guitarist/vocalist Johnny Franck is the man behind the madness of Bilmuri, the self-proclaimed “deathcore/ambient/post-jazz/hard rock” one man band from Ohio who ends 2019 with his second record of the year, ‘Rich Sips’. Read More