Bloc Party: Alpha Games
Instrumentally, the British post-punk band Bloc Party sound impressively tight on their latest full-length album, Alpha Games. They should, as it’s their first studio…
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Wet Leg: Wet Leg
Wet Leg is the indie rock duo consisting of lead vocalist/rhythm guitarist Rhian Teasdale and backing vocalist/lead guitarist Hester Chambers. The two women met…
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Destroyer: Labyrinthitis
For those who have been paying attention to Destroyer’s recorded output for the last decade, it should come as no surprise that moments on…
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Hippo Campus: LP3
“2 Young 2 Die”, the first song on Minnesota indie rock band Hippo Campus’ LP3 is, in a word, safe. Milquetoast might be a…
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BODEGA: Broken Equipment
It’s been four years since the NYC art punk outfit BODEGA wowed the world with their outstanding debut studio album, Endless Scroll, but that…
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Boris: W
The last track on Boris’ 2020 album, NO, was titled “Interlude”. The purpose of this was to have their follow-up album, W, work as…
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Empath: Visitor
Aside from a digital-only single released in the fall of 2019 and an extended instrumental jam made available in the summer of 2020, the…
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The Wombats: Fix Yourself, Not the World
Fix Yourself, Not the World, the fifth full-length studio album from Liverpool trio the Wombats, was created during lockdown with the band’s members recording…
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Snail Mail: Valentine
Valentine, the second full-length studio album from singer-songwriter Lindsey Jordan’s Snail Mail project, finds the young musician pondering romantic relationships and the emotional rollercoaster…
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Parquet Courts: Sympathy for Life
Not counting Milano (a 2017 collaborative concept album done with composer Daniele Luppi), or Content Nausea (a 2014 recording released under the name Parkay…
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