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Frankie Cosmos – Inner World Peace (2022)
Frankie Cosmos‘s fifth studio album, Inner World Peace, progresses like setting up a fireplace in an antiquated mansion, starting as if by candlelight, delicately reflecting, before a comforting warmth...
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Quasi – Breaking the Balls of History (2023)
Janet Weiss — undisputed legend of the Pacific Northwest music scene, having notably played in the supergroup Wild Flag and on a couple of Stephen Malkmus and the Jicks albums (including 2008’s seminal...
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Bria – Cuntry Covers vol. 2 EP (2023)
Over the past few decades, covers records have tended towards filler; stop-gap releases that let artists signal their street cred while keeping the content mill churning. Throughout pop music’s history...
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DEBBY FRIDAY – GOOD LUCK (2023)
Debby Friday‘s first two EPs were fierce, commanding bursts of energy that amalgamated synth punk, electro, noise, and industrial hip-hop. The Nigeria-born, Canada-based artist has since collaborated...
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Mudhoney – Plastic Eternity (2023)
Mudhoney will never entirely escape its grunge past, nor should it. The band did much to define that early 1990s amalgam of punk irreverence and lo-fi fuzz metal roar. However, for the last couple of...
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Shannon Lay – Covers Vol. 1 (2023)
Shannon Lay has never been coy about sharing her love for those that influenced her. Lay’s last album, Geist, included a playful cover of Syd Barrett’s “Late Night” and on August, Lay included a song,...
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Lael Neale – Star Eaters Delight (2023)
Singer/songwriter Lael Neale‘s 2021 album Acquainted with Night departed from the somewhat forgettable studio sound of her earlier work in favor of home recording, imperfect performances, and spare...
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Beach House – Become EP (2023)
Beach House’s very first non-album single, released in the wake of Devotion in 2008, with the “Apple Orchard” demo on the flip, was a scruffy early take on “Used to Be,” a song that eventually...
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Hannah Jadagu – Aperture (2023)
Hannah Jadagu began writing, performing, and uploading songs as a high school student in Mesquite, Texas, then released her iPhone-recorded debut EP on Sub Pop shortly after she graduated. Taking...
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Bully – Lucky for You (2023)
Lucky For You is Bully’s most close-to-the-bone album yet. It’s an album that’s searing and unmistakably marked by its creator’s experiences, while still retaining the massive sound that Alicia...
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