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mark william lewis: Living Album Review
The London singer-songwriter’s debut LP frames big themes—the heaviness of life and death, the duality in ecstasy and pain—in skeletal, atmospheric indie rock. → Read More
Oliver Coates: Aftersun (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) Album Review
The composer and cellist’s score for Charlotte Wells’ film is full of suggestion and shadows, wringing emotion from the lightest touches. → Read More
Wicca Phase Springs Eternal: Full Moon Mystery Garden Album Review
The GothBoiClique affiliate takes a Lynchian journey through trap beats, dusty drum breaks, and shoegaze guitar; his vaguely emotive lyrics suggest horrors lurking in the shadows. → Read More
Elite Gymnastics: snow flakes 2022 Album Review
After a decade-long pause, Jaime Brooks revives her Elite Gymnastics project. The record feels like an elegy for a time when the internet provided refuge for misfit kids seeking out like-minded souls. → Read More
Macula Dog: Orange 2 Album Review
The second album from the enigmatic duo is equally nauseating and joyous, like binging on several decades of euphoric pop and hurling it onto the floor of a Tilt-A-Whirl. → Read More
Bladee: Spiderr Album Review
With celestial synth arrangements and heavy-lidded streams of consciousness, Bladee’s newest album offers a vision of pop that’s grounded in real emotion but shrouded in otherworldly mystery. → Read More
Prison Religion: Hard Industrial B.O.P. Album Review
Where the Virginia duo’s previous records fused rap, techno, and other aggressive forms, its new album lumbers into a terrifying new realm of noise. → Read More
Various Artists: PC Music, Vol. 3 Album Review
Six years after Vol. 2, the latest label compilation obliterates the notion that there’s any one PC Music sound. It’s the work of producers interested in self-expression and the shifting grounds of pop music. → Read More
Duster: Together Album Review
The trio’s second album post-hiatus matches the clarity of its arrangements with an unexpected spiritual lightness. Rarely has Duster sounded so pleasant and peaceful. → Read More
Katie Dey: forever music Album Review
On her fifth album, the Australian singer-songwriter steps away from the bleak feelings of her early, glitch-scoured work, reflecting this newfound clarity with unadorned arrangements for voice and keys. → Read More
Doss: 4 New Hit Songs Album Review
Veering from bubblegum house to shoegaze, the producer and singer captures the intimacy of the dancefloor. → Read More
Porter Robinson: Nurture Album Review
Coming seven years after his debut, the North Carolina EDM producer’s second album alternates between euphoric pop and muted ambient work, exploring the difficulty of finding fulfillment and lasting peace. → Read More
Basside: Fuck It Up EP Album Review
Joyful, euphoric, and free, these new songs from the Miami party-starters are all produced by SOPHIE and are full of potential energy and the excitement of exploration. → Read More
Body Meat: Year of the Orc EP Album Review
Channeling sugar-rush synths and bracing noise, the Philadelphia producer continues his quest to make pop music stranger and more head-spinning—and to test listeners’ ability to follow the twists and turns. → Read More
Danny L Harle: Harlecore Album Review
The PC Music alum surveys the history of rave, sucking serotonin from its gleaming extremes: teeth-chattering trance, Thunderdome-worthy techno, and psychedelic chill-out. → Read More
Black Dresses: Forever in Your Heart Album Review
After their sudden dissolution last year, the Toronto noise duo return just as suddenly with a new album. Like their previous work, it’s full of pain, dissociation, and hopelessness—and surprisingly, a new tranquility. → Read More
Salem: Fires in Heaven Album Review
On their second full-length in a decade, the despondent witch house pioneers return with an alluring invitation to join them in the depths. → Read More
John Kolodij: First Fire
Trading his High Aura’d alias for his own name, the Providence experimental musician finds evocative depths in the small, transitory details of slowly evolving drone pieces. → Read More
Katie Dey: katie dey: mydata Album Review
The Australian singer-songwriter eases up on her customary digital glitches, manipulated vocals, and sudden cuts for a warm record about the difficulty of forging intimacy through technology. → Read More
Magik Markers: Isolated From Exterior Time: 2020 Album Review
On their first release since 2013, the avant-rock group forego the escapism of their past work in order to provide a score for our present chaos. → Read More