Album Reviews – Page 18

Liv.e – Couldn't Wait to Tell You…

8.0

Arriving on a swell of casually poetic verses, blissfully warm melodies, and a smoky alto that's delicately mesmerizing, singer Liv.e (pronounced "liv") nestles herself deep inside our spirit with her…

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8.5

Skullcrusher—Skullcrusher EP

Los Angeles-based Skullcrusher takes the cake for most formidable name on the Secretly Canadian roster (though serpentwithfeet comes in at a close second). The soft, tentative indie folk that embodies singer Helen Ballentine's sound…

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9.0

Vanessa Worm—Vanessa 77

A Dionysian ritual of ancient Greece uses music and dance to free an individual from the shackles of social restraint and inhibition. Such liberated release is accomplished in Vanessa Worm's debut…

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7.5

Honestly—Inside Your Eyes, Without You Beside Me

Massachusetts-based indie-pop duo Honestly is composed of Eric Canto and Dalton Winters. Formed in 2019, they’ve quickly arrived with their debut full-length album Inside Your Eyes, Without You Beside Me.…

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8.0

SahBabii – Barnacles

Underground Atlanta vocalist SahBabii has just come through with a brand new full length album Barnacles, a glamorous trap dream with an infectious pace. This is Sah's latest batch of tracks since…

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9.0

The Exaltics & Heinrich Mueller — Dimensional Shifting

Four years after their collaboration on Project STS-31 (Hubble Telescope Series Vol.3), Robert Witschakowski and Gerald Donald return to release Dimensional Shifting, as The Exaltics & Heinrich Mueller. With Donald…

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8.5

Mike Morrissey – Courage

Just northwest of Boston, Massachusetts, exists the city of Sommerville, where talent brews like a cup of New England Green Mountain Coffee, and where singer-songwriter Mike Morrissey resides, experiments, and…

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7.5

Little Kid—Transfiguration Highway

Indie folk outfit Little Kid has just unveiled their newest full length project Transfiguration Highway, their first batch of new material since signing to Solitaire Recordings. Their last album came in 2018…

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8.5

Phoebe Bridgers—Punisher

Phoebe Bridgers sounds exhausted. She always has, though: on "Motion Sickness" (off her 2017 debut, Stranger in the Alps), she sings, in monotone, "I hate you for what you did…

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8.0

Small Forward – Small Forward

LA-based trio Small Forward makes music that alleviates the mind and soul. Their debut album arrives at time where we need it the most. While the band performs in the…

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9.0

Best Ex – Good At Feeling Bad

At the intersection of modern pop and dance exists a reality that is much more fun, a new melancholy much boppier, a world delightful—something like Best Ex’s new record Good…

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6.5

The 1975—Notes on A Conditional Form

Matty Healy is not concerned with palatability. The slow-rolling thunder that announced the arrival of The 1975's Notes On A Conditional Form, out May 22nd via Dirty Hit, has had music fans perched…

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Liv.e – Couldn't Wait to Tell You…

Skullcrusher—Skullcrusher EP

Vanessa Worm—Vanessa 77

Honestly—Inside Your Eyes, Without You Beside Me

SahBabii – Barnacles

The Exaltics & Heinrich Mueller — Dimensional Shifting

Mike Morrissey – Courage

Little Kid—Transfiguration Highway

Phoebe Bridgers—Punisher

Small Forward – Small Forward

Best Ex – Good At Feeling Bad

The 1975—Notes on A Conditional Form

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