August 15, 2025

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Bleary Eyed - "Easy" | Album Review

August 15, 2025

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Bleary Eyed’s third full-length album, Easy, is here. Released July 25th on Born Losers Records, the band has pulled the sound of shoegaze even closer. Easy dawns a broad range of intergalactic sounds, bending, stretching, and exploring the proverbial space dust of the far-reaching universe.

August 13, 2025

by: Christopher J. Lee

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Les Rallizes Dénudés - "YaneUra Sept. '80" | Album Review

August 13, 2025

by: Christopher J. Lee

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Les Rallizes Dénudés - "YaneUra Sept. '80" | Album Review

The Japanese psych-rock act Les Rallizes Dénudés is a cult band for which there is much to discuss, albeit with little verifiable information to go by. YaneUra Sept. '80 is a four song EP lasting just over 40 minutes that distills the improvisational essence of the band. It is a perfect entry point for new listeners.

August 11, 2025

By: Rohan Press

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Ryan Davis & the Roadhouse Band - "New Threats from the Soul" | Album Review

August 11, 2025

By: Rohan Press

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Ryan Davis & the Roadhouse Band - "New Threats from the Soul" | Album Review

Ryan Davis & the Roadhouse Band’s New Threats from the Soul isn’t just a collection of voluble country rock songs; it’s an entire psychic and existential landscape that’ll damn you and reveal you, and catch you sniffing for the transcendent down in the muck and the weeds.

August 8, 2025

by: Kris Handel

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Wombo - "Danger in Fives" | Album Review

August 8, 2025

by: Kris Handel

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Wombo - "Danger in Fives" | Album Review

The Kentucky three-piece have once again delivered an album that is worth all the time their audience is willing to give to it. Wombo’s latest demands full attention and will take you to foreign spaces that will open up a thrilling dream world.

August 7, 2025

By: Jess Makler

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Billie Marten – "Dog Eared" | Album Review

August 7, 2025

By: Jess Makler

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Billie Marten – "Dog Eared" | Album Review

Horse girls, poetry bros, and introspective circumlocutory overthinkers rejoice: Billie Marten’s fifth studio album Dog Eared is for looking out of car windows, yearning quietly, and laying on the floor as you ponder the slow passage of time.

August 6, 2025

By: Allen Hale

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Clifford - "Golden Caravan" | Album Review

August 6, 2025

By: Allen Hale

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Clifford - "Golden Caravan" | Album Review

Boston slowcore project Clifford infuses an array of influences with bone-dry distortion. The range of their languidity makes for a compelling take on somewhat familiar indie territories without any gaps in Golden Caravan’s tracklisting.

August 4, 2025

by: Harrison Knight

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Oldstar - “Of the Highway” | Album Review

August 4, 2025

by: Harrison Knight

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Oldstar - “Of the Highway” | Album Review

Oldstar’s latest project is a focused, heartfelt country rock record and a studied approach to refashioning country music. Of the Highway, for all its attempts at getting out, knows where it came from.

August 1, 2025

by: Chris Polley

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punxsutawney - "Untitled" | EP Review

August 1, 2025

by: Chris Polley

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Los Angeles-based punxsutawney speak about their music as well as they play it. With little effect on the dueling guitars besides reverb and overdrive, Untitled avoids the stylistic trappings of post-rock projects that came before them, carving their own path in the genre.

July 31, 2025

by: Myles Tiessen

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Supreme Joy - "410,757,864,530 Dead Carps" | Review

July 31, 2025

by: Myles Tiessen

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Supreme Joy - "410,757,864,530 Dead Carps" | Review

On 410,757,864,530 Dead Carps, Supreme Joy’s uncertainty around the commodification of art and the hypnosis of capitalism’s spectacle is expressed through a form to the “Born to die/ World is a fuck” meme. It’s an artistic expression of dissatisfaction through the absurd yet delicately profound.

July 30, 2025

by: Devin Birse

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Ex Agent - "New Assumptions" | Album Review

July 30, 2025

by: Devin Birse

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Ex Agent - "New Assumptions" | Album Review

Ex Agent are a remarkable group because their influences remain influences. New Assumptions exists somewhere between the slow drones of Louisville post-rock, the free-form jazz noise of no-wave, and the impeccable art punk of late-70s England.

July 28, 2025

by: Khagan Aslanov

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billy woods - "GOLLIWOG" | Album Review

July 28, 2025

by: Khagan Aslanov

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billy woods’ GOLLIWOG is an enraged and exhausted, atmospheric masterpiece that fearlessly plunges into discomfort and abuse; skin-toned, gender-based, domestic, federal, colonial, and personal.

July 24, 2025

By: Allen Hale

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Pygmy Lush - "TOTEM" | Album Review

July 24, 2025

By: Allen Hale

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Pygmy Lush’s TOTEM is an unlikely feat in all regards. Rising from the ashes of cult favorite screamo band Pageninetynine, TOTEM evinces a thorough re-ignition of the hard-hitting styles which first put these musicians on the map.

July 23, 2025

By: Danny Mendelson

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Alan Sparhawk - “With Trampled By Turtles” | Album Review

July 23, 2025

By: Danny Mendelson

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Alan Sparhawk - “With Trampled By Turtles” | Album Review

Absence has long defined Alan Sparhawk’s output. On With Trampled By Turtles, there’s something new and beautiful to be found in the space an absence leaves if you are willing to confront it.

July 22, 2025

by: Kris Handel

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Debbie Dopamine - "Mandibles" | Album Review

July 22, 2025

by: Kris Handel

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Debbie Dopamine - "Mandibles" | Album Review

Debbie Dopamine have a wonderful knack for presenting honest and uncompromising songs that delve deep into poignant and complex thoughts and beliefs, examining them in a compassionately human manner that is a delight to behold.

July 18, 2025

By: Jess Makler

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Frankie Cosmos – "Different Talking" | Album Review

July 18, 2025

By: Jess Makler

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Frankie Cosmos – "Different Talking" | Album Review

The NYC-based, Sub Pop-signed group composed of the four-piece of Greta Kline, Alex Bailey, Katie Von Schleicher, and Hugo Stanley hit familiar strides with witty lyrics and wistful reflections on what it feels like to live and love.

July 17, 2025

by: Layton Guyton

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Macie Stewart - "When the Distance is Blue" | Album Review

July 17, 2025

by: Layton Guyton

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Macie Stewart - "When the Distance is Blue" | Album Review

Macie Stewart’s When the Distance is Blue is a perfectly titled, surreal and expansive record. Her International Anthem debut is not a question or an answer ,but a murmuring thought, both perplexing and comforting.

July 16, 2025

by: Jonah Evans

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Graham Hunt - “Timeless World Forever” | Album Review

July 16, 2025

by: Jonah Evans

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Graham Hunt - “Timeless World Forever” | Album Review

Timeless World Forever by Graham Hunt draws on the timeline of alternative pop music composition, as his songs create a timeless sensation, reincarnating threads of energetic sounds from today's music, the 2010s, the 2000s, and the 1990s.

July 14, 2025

by: Kris Handel

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Panik Flower - "Rearview" | Album Review

July 14, 2025

by: Kris Handel

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Panik Flower - "Rearview" | Album Review

PANIK FLOWER, on their sophomore effort Rearview, are unafraid to shift and change their approach, while still maintaining a compelling strength and drive that is in full bloom.

July 11, 2025

by: brian e. snapp

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Mess Esque - “Jay Marie, Comfort Me” | Album Review

July 11, 2025

by: brian e. snapp

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Mess Esque - “Jay Marie, Comfort Me” | Album Review

Mess Esque’s Jay Marie, Comfort Me is a slow-burn album that rewards repeat listens. It doesn’t hurt to play it loud, which accentuates the quiet moments and lets the cacophonous ones crash over you.

July 9, 2025

by: Dom Lepore

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Lyra Pramuk - “Hymnal” | Album Review

July 9, 2025

by: Dom Lepore

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To deem Hymnal as a “special album you don’t often come across” may be a tired platitude, but it’s necessary for a work this complex and technical. The grandiosity of American composer Lyra Pramuk’s latest record is owed to its variegated synthesis of classical, folk, and techno sensibilities.