8.5
Heaven To A Tortured Mind
Yves TumorYves Tumor is no stranger to pop or R&B, however the iconoclastic artist bends those genres into a disorienting mix of bottomless grooves, broken…
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8.3
PITH
MelkbellyThe music video for Melkbelly’s “Sickeningly Teeth” is aptly named, arriving filled-to-the-gums with nausea-inducing visuals of folks with all kinds of shit in their…
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8.0
It Is What It Is
ThundercatStephen Lee Bruner is the closest thing we have to a modern day mad musical scientist. The artist, better known as Thundercat, has been…
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8.0
New Me, Same Us
Little DragonIt’s always a pleasant surprise when an album can be explained with a Bible quote. Little Dragon’s New Me, Same Us is lovely, soulful…
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9.0
Born Again
EllisThe movie High Fidelity scared the shit out of me. Here was an aging man obsessed with records and maybe because of this not…
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8.0
The Cormorant I & II
San FerminIt began in June 2019 when San Fermin unveiled the first part of ‘The Cormorant’, a lush, swirling record constructed around a male and…
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7.0
925
SorryThe world moves so fast. When the internet rolled around in the early aughts and really changed the way music was being ingested, it…
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10.0
3.15.20
Childish GambinoIf you said back in the early days of Derrick Comedy that one third of that often hilarious sketch comedy group would one day…
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8.5
Snapshot of a Beginner
Nap EyesOn Nap Eyes’ fourth LP, Snapshot of a Beginner, singer/guitarist Nigel Chapman contemplates individualism in many of its forms. Such introspection is nothing new…
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9.0
Every Bad
Porridge RadioPorridge Radio’s Every Bad is Pixies-inspired indie rock, a fairly common combination, perhaps more so in the 1990s than today. But what makes Every…
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6.6
Uneasy Laughter
MoaningThere are two integral ingredients that underpin Moaning’s sophomore record ‘Uneasy Laughter’; the LA trio have replaced the abrasive guitars from their eponymous debut…
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7.0
Kiss My Super Bowl Ring
The GardenThe Garden really don’t give a fuck; they don’t care if you like their new record ‘Kiss My Super Bowl Ring’, aka kiss my…
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