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Deerhoof – Actually, You Can (2021)
Think of all the beauty, positivity and love that gets deemed ugly, negative and hateful by the self-proclaimed guardians of ‘common sense.’ We’d hardly be destroying society by dismantling their...
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Cedric Noel – Hang Time (2021)
It’s difficult for an artist to remain both prolific and good at their craft, but Cedric Noel‘s Hang Time — coming a year after his Patterning and Nothing Forever, Everything releases — assuages all...
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Mike Adams at His Honest Weight – Oscillate Wisely [10th Anniversary Edition]...
For ten years now, I’ve understood Oscillate Wisely as a play on the Smiths’ instrumental “Oscillate Wildly”–itself, of course, a pun on Morrissey’s muse, Oscar Wilde. This is not to say that anything...
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El Ten Eleven – New Year’s Eve (2022)
Struggles are sloshed away by tidal waves of champagne. Resolutions are boldly proclaimed or whispered in one’s own heart. A ball drops, and we expect a whole new life to spring out. But nothing is...
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Sound of Ceres – Emerald Sea (2022)
During their relatively brief career, New York’s Sound of Ceres have charted an intriguing evolution from the waifish dream pop of 2016’s Nostalgia for Infinity to the more abstract sci-fi leanings of...
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Medicine Singers – Medicine Singers (2022)
Medicine Singers formed as a collaborative offshoot of the Eastern Medicine Singers, an Eastern Algonquin powwow group that performs traditional and contemporary American Indian music. The project was...
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Ben Shemie – Desiderata (2022)
Along the outer limits of the universe, where no path forward can be found, what else remains but the self? Desiderata, the third solo offering from Ben Shemie (of SUUNS), grapples with this question....
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Oneida – Success (2022)
Sometimes even the longest journey ends close to where you started. Throughout the teens, Oneida pushed further and further into abstract, atmospheric sounds, recording long haunting compositions that...
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Eerie Wanda – Internal Radio (2022)
Internal Radio, the third Eerie Wanda album, is something of a departure for the project. No longer a band as such, this time singer/songwriter Marina Tadic takes full control and steps away from the...
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Yonatan Gat – American Quartet (2022)
Yonatan Gat’s American Quartet is a reimagining of Antonin Dvořák’s famed string quartet, one of the most popular works of chamber music in the classical repertoire, written while Dvořák was – like...
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