Aug 25, 2021
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In the spirit of every great band who made it to the top and managed to remain within that vicinity,
The Killers have retained their glitz and bombast for 17 years, while leaving their creative evolutionary process on proud display for all to see.
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Aug 24, 2021
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Originally self-released through
Alice Coltrane’s publishing company The Avatar Institute in 1982 on cassette only and then only unofficially reissued in Germany during the last 10 years, this is the first official reissue of this beautiful and unique album.
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Aug 23, 2021
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Canandaigua is the one-man project of Washington D.C.’s Raul Zahir De Leon. He’s a veteran of the tightly knit D.C. music scene, but
Slight Return nonetheless feels every bit the discovery of a new voice.
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Aug 20, 2021
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Throughout the pandemic, songwriter
Angel Olsen found solace in the seemingly strangest of places: the supermarket. By hearing classic hits of decades past over the loudspeakers, Olsen tapped into a new type of sound—straying away from somber melodies woven into past albums (notably, 2016’s
My Woman and 2019’s
All Mirrors).
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Aug 20, 2021
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It’s true that
Infinite Granite, the fifth album from San Francisco’s
Deafheaven, marks a sharp sonic left-turn for the band, but this has been on the cards for a while.
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Aug 20, 2021
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Alice Johnson of
Swim School has described the recent COVID restrictions and subsequent lockdowns as an opportunity for the band to develop their sound. Their debut EP,
making sense of it all, showcases just how well spent that time has been.
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Aug 19, 2021
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Ora the Molecule, the left-field synthwave moniker of Nora Schjelderup, crafts living worlds in her music. On her debut record,
Human Safari, her songs pulse, ripple, and shift, tracing circles around Schjelderup’s elegant melodies and spoken word vocals. There’s a conscious magic to these worlds, with Schjelderup crafting songs that are at turns haunting and at others joyous.
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Aug 18, 2021
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Annika Henderson, better known to fans under the moniker
Anika, has returned 11 years after her self-titled debut with her second solo studio album
Change.
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Aug 17, 2021
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If their debut album
Brickbat was driven by a rediscovery of the joy of creating music again, then
Piroshkas’s second album,
Love Drips and Gathers, is a much more wistful reflective affair.
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Aug 16, 2021
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The duo of Andrew Marlin and Emily Frantz have been recording as Mandolin Orange for the past decade. In the months leading up to their latest album release, they also unveiled the news that they would be changing their name to
Watchhouse.
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