REVIEW: Purity Ring – “Shrines”
Is it premature or arrogant to declare Purity Ring’s debut to be this year’s most artistic record? Given Shrines has coloured in every definition…
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REVIEW: The Gaslight Anthem – “Handwritten”
When a songwriter reflects the raw and brittle shade to his honesty, it becomes difficult to resist what he has to say and like so many…
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REVIEW: JEFF The Brotherhood – “Hypnotic Nights”
Rather than let speed demon rhythms fluctuate without remorse, JEFF The Brotherhood do two things right: they carefully construct songs…
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REVIEW: Frank Ocean – “Channel Orange”
Whereas debuts provide an introduction to an artist, Frank Ocean steps out of the studio a storyteller, a writer who can use the warped echo of…
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REVIEW: Dirty Projectors – “Swing Lo Magellan”
In the material world, it can be hard to differentiate what’s hip and what’s creative but there’s no difficulty in noting what’s lined with…
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REVIEW: The Early November – “In Currents”
Six years removed from a definitive triple album, the New Jersey rockers are still using personal moments to carve their songwriting…
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REVIEW: DIIV – “Oshin”
Drifting through their debut record Oshin, it’s not tedious to see DIIV come off more like reunited shoegaze revolutionaries than what…
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REVIEW: Make Do And Mend – “Everything You Ever Loved”
A Make Do And Mend song is a study in itself. You can claim that it’s easy to dissect and categorize but most of the time it will dig into…
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REVIEW: Ty Segall Band – “Slaughterhouse”
If cartoons taught us anything, it’s that a tiny hamster inside of a wheel runs our brain and in the case of Slaughterhouse, the 11-track disc…
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REVIEW: The Smashing Pumpkins – “Oceania”
There are probably quite a few casual music fans who wondered if The Smashing Pumpkins would ever record anything new after Zeitgeist…
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