Album Reviews – Page 27

Mutual Benefit – Skip A Sinking Stone

7.0

When I was a sophomore in college, Mutual Benefit graced our campus with a tiny, sublimely intimate performance of Love's Crushing Diamond. They set up a makeshift stage in the…

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9.0

Young Magic – Still Life

Young Magic is no ordinary musical duo and the latest project between Malati Malay and Issac Emmanuel is no typical record. Malay is of Indonesian decent, while Emmanuel hails from…

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Kaytranada – 99.9%

Proving he is in fact a master of his own domain, Kaytranada has dropped a real soul experience with his long awaited LP, ‘99.9%’. The producer kept giving us tastes of…

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The Range: Potential

The Range's latest album, Potential, has been out for a minute now, and yet it's still sinking in. It's rare for an artist's sophomore release to be their masterpiece, but an…

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8.5

Andy Stott: Too Many Voices

Ever since Andy Stott graduated from the dub techno scene with his 2011 EPs Passed Me By and We Stay Together, it's felt like the Manchester-based producer is capable of anything, and…

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9.0

Patrice Bäumel – Balance Presents

With the never ending amount of new musicians, DJs and electronic acts emerging onto the scene, it is getting increasingly difficult to find good music. The few that do stand…

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8.5

[soundcloud url="https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/243744658" params="auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false&visual=true" width="100%" height="450" iframe="true" /] There’s a real vintage quality to Kevin Morby’s music. Not simply by way of inspiration, though his storied acoustics and woodsy nasal twang…

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8.5

Night Moves – Pennied Days

Back in 2012, Night Moves emerged from the shimmering, quickly widening pool of acoustic-psych rock with Colored Emotion, a patchwork breakout that squeezed serious indie-God potential into fuzzy threads of…

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7.0

Methyl Ethel – Oh Inhuman Spectacle

In a moment when Australia is riding high via the respective outputs of psych-rockers Tame Impala and idiosyncratic singer-songwriter Courtney Barnett, another group is laying its claim to the Land…

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8.5

Mothers – When You Walk A Long Distance You Are Tired

“Most things are born golden/until they start to notice,” former art student Kristine Leschper croons on “Nesting Behavior,” a stunningly unself-conscious parable apt to describe Mothers’ debut work. The Athens…

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8.0

Tiga – No Fantasy Required

Tiga is a 21st Century techno icon thanks to the magnitude of successful singles in his discography. The Montreal producer, DJ, and singer keeps his creativity flowing by constantly looking…

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7.5

Submotion Orchestra – Colour Theory

Most musicians like to describe themselves as progressive and musically evolving, but very few have as much grounds to claim this as Submotion Orchestra. The UK seven piece band have…

Archives: Album Reviews

Mutual Benefit – Skip A Sinking Stone

Young Magic – Still Life

Kaytranada – 99.9%

The Range: Potential

Andy Stott: Too Many Voices

Patrice Bäumel – Balance Presents

Kevin Morby – Singing Saw

Night Moves – Pennied Days

Methyl Ethel – Oh Inhuman Spectacle

Mothers – When You Walk A Long Distance You Are Tired

Tiga – No Fantasy Required

Submotion Orchestra – Colour Theory

Lauren Presley finds power in vulnerability on new EP "Hanging In The Balance"

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