October 6, 2025

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Dancer – "More or Less" | Album Review

October 6, 2025

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Fans of gentle cynicism and riot grrl sensibility are in for a treat with the second album from Glasgow’s quirky punk outfit Dancer. They escape the second album slump, polishing their sound and keeping with the scrappy tongue-in-cheek nature and nostalgia that makes them such a one-of-a-kind group

October 6, 2025

By: Katie Stollmack

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Peel Dream Magazine - "Taurus" | Album Review

October 6, 2025

By: Katie Stollmack

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Peel Dream Magazine - "Taurus" | Album Review

Taurus is a writerly album. Although many individual tracks sport repetitive lyrics, these repetitions work together to diverge from pattern, creating rich micro-narratives and character studies. For an album made up of outtakes, Taurus absolutely speaks for itself.

October 3, 2025

By: Kurt Orzeck

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Irk - "The Seeing House" | Album Review

October 3, 2025

By: Kurt Orzeck

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Irk are here to pester us with the truth that fear-inducing art forms make us feel alive more than any other varieties. The Seeing House is proof positive that fear, particularly fear of the unknown, cannot be rinsed off after a person’s interaction with a piece of art is complete.

October 2, 2025

by: Jonah Evans

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Technopolice - "Chien De La Casse" | Album Review

October 2, 2025

by: Jonah Evans

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Technopolice - "Chien De La Casse" | Album Review

Technopolice’s debut album, Chien De La Chasse embodies the energy of a dance hall with wooden floors where everybody’s feet can’t stop moving. The Marseille-based band’s punk-garage and gritty sound infusion is fast paced, dynamic, and will make you want to cut rug.

October 1, 2025

By: Alex Hanse

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Water From Your Eyes - "It's A Beautiful Place" | Album Review

October 1, 2025

By: Alex Hanse

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Water From Your Eyes - "It's A Beautiful Place" | Album Review

It’s A Beautiful Place goes so many places and explores so many ideas so succinctly, that it’s almost a shock when it’s over, but it’s Water From Your Eyes’ sharpest collection of songs yet.

September 29, 2025

By: Charlie Bailey

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SCayos - "Felt Like Forever" | Album Review

September 29, 2025

By: Charlie Bailey

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SCayos - "Felt Like Forever" | Album Review

Felt like forever is a project that will resonate with everyone, drawing on inklings of nostalgia from melodic themes to softly spun lyrical repetition. It’s easy to be wrapped up and day dream away as SCayos invokes the growing pains and triumphs of a time in our lives that can feel like forever.

September 26, 2025

by: Kris Handel

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Guerilla Toss - “You’re Weird Now” | Album Review

September 26, 2025

by: Kris Handel

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Guerilla Toss - “You’re Weird Now” | Album Review

You’re Weird Now has many twists and turns and important questions to pose, as well as amusing literary and cultural references, but the band is in full force and these songs will not be overpowered by anything due to the awe-inspiring art of Guerilla Toss.

September 25, 2025

by: Jade Winings

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She's Green - "Chrysalis" | Album Review

September 25, 2025

by: Jade Winings

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She's Green - "Chrysalis" | Album Review

Minneapolis’ she’s green has returned with another ethereal album Chrysalis. The record satisfies the crave for the band’s authentic approach to shoegaze and their emotionally in-tune dynamic, promising to impress old fans and new.

September 24, 2025

by: Louis Pelingen

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Titanic - HAGEN | Album Review

September 24, 2025

by: Louis Pelingen

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Titanic, the collaborative project composed of avant-garde cellist Mabe Fratti and multi-instrumentalist I la Catolica, revels in free-wheeling compositions. On HAGEN, the duo directs their heartfelt musicality into something more firm and focused, utilizing their freewheeling spirit to elevate the feelings into a burnished extreme.

September 22, 2025

by: John Brouk

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Algae Dust - "Rearranging" | Album Review

September 22, 2025

by: John Brouk

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Algae Dust - "Rearranging" | Album Review

The St. Louis-based, grungy dreampop group Algae Dust are back. Rearranging is an album of growth, gains, and loss, looking deep into the internal effects of one’s relations and environment.

September 19, 2025

By: Rohan Press

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Wednesday - "Bleeds" | Album Review

September 19, 2025

By: Rohan Press

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That tacit slippage between sweetness and bitterness is the heartwood of Wednesday’s newest and most mature record, Bleeds. Every image in Karly Hartzman’s writing comes back to this taproot: how things that are supposed to heal you can also hurt you.

September 18, 2025

By: Jess Makler

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Pile – "Sunshine and Balance Beams" | Album Review

September 18, 2025

By: Jess Makler

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Pile – "Sunshine and Balance Beams" | Album Review

Formed in Boston nearly 20 years ago, the band proves that the passage of time brings with it enhanced creativity and brand new ideas. On Sunshine and Balance Beams, expect fuzz-laden guitar, crooning vocals and orchestral flourishes from Pile’s stellar lineup.

September 15, 2025

by: Louis Pelingen

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McKinley Dixon - "Magic, Alive!" | Album Review

September 15, 2025

by: Louis Pelingen

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McKinley Dixon - "Magic, Alive!" | Album Review

Magic, Alive! is a refreshing shift towards the way McKinley Dixon expresses himself and his emotions, involving the wonderful magic of stories and the poignant lessons that slip within them. Not only does it confront harsh realities, it also keeps memories alive, and turns them into lessons that enrich our very existence.

September 11, 2025

By: Kurt Orzeck

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Pharaoh Overlord – “Louhi” | Album Review

September 11, 2025

By: Kurt Orzeck

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Pharaoh Overlord – “Louhi” | Album Review

Pharaoh Overlord’s Louhi consists of two 19-minute-plus songs that lumber, stomp, and trudge along from start to finish. This is one of those rare records that makes you reflect, “How did someone come up with the idea to make music like this?”

September 10, 2025

by: Christopher J. Lee

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Edith Frost - "In Space" | Album Review

September 10, 2025

by: Christopher J. Lee

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An updated version of the old, weird America courses through Edith Frost’s catalogue, replete with lost souls, mislaid plans, revenge fantasies, and the overlooked fates of people holding on for one last chance at redemption. Despite her absence, Frost hasn’t lost her touch.

September 9, 2025

by: Kris Handel

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Screaming Trees - “Clairvoyance” (Reissue) | Album Review

September 9, 2025

by: Kris Handel

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Screaming Trees - “Clairvoyance” (Reissue) | Album Review

This reissue is a fascinating documentation of the early years of Screaming Trees, showing a ferocity and menace the band would later perfect. The new unreleased tracks are a treasure trove, as some truly eclipse those that made it on the original album.

September 8, 2025

by: Khagan Aslanov

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Deftones - "Private Music" | Album Review

September 8, 2025

by: Khagan Aslanov

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Deftones - "Private Music" | Album Review

In their fourth decade of recording, Deftones are still able to sit together and put something like Private Music to tape, something so full of cinematic abandon and violent verve, coarse and beautiful, and as always, at odds with itself in all the right ways.

September 5, 2025

by: Devin Birse

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James K - "Friend" | Album Review

September 5, 2025

by: Devin Birse

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James K’s Friend beautifully achieves a repurposing and rebuilding of the past through new machinery. But instead of merely recreating the affect of these sounds, K has built something new out of them.

September 4, 2025

By: Attila Peter

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Jeanines - "How Long Can It Last" | Album Review

September 4, 2025

By: Attila Peter

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Jeanines - "How Long Can It Last" | Album Review

Rather than simply recreating a classic sound, Jeanines reshape it into miniature bursts of indie pop – ranging from 1:10 to 2:15 minutes – that each carve out their own character, colored by melancholy lyrics.

September 3, 2025

by: John Brouk

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Paper Castles - “I’m Sad as Hell and I’m Not Going To Fake It Anymore” | Album Review

September 3, 2025

by: John Brouk

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Paper Castles - “I’m Sad as Hell and I’m Not Going To Fake It Anymore” | Album Review

Paddy Reagan and co. have emerged from their years-long brooding with a new batch of slacker, country-tinged rock songs that feels like a lively, warm summer night. I’m Sad as Hell and I’m Not Going to Fake It Anymore might be the most appropriately titled record to come in the year 2025.