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Album Reviews
Album Reviews
EP REVIEW: The Rare Occasions – Attaboy is Unrestrained Rock
Los Angeles-based, New England-bred band The Rare Occasions released their self-produced EP Attaboy on November 4, 2022. Brian McLaughlin (vocals)…
ALBUM REVIEW: Joji’s SMITHEREENS is Melancholic Trip Hop
George Kusunoki Miller started off as a YouTube comedian in 2011, switched to creating comedic music under the name Pink…
ALBUM REVIEW: The Backseat Lovers Waiting To Spill Proves Worth The Wait
Born out of Utah, indie-rock quartet The Backseat Lovers, consisting of Joshua Harmon (vocals, guitar), Jonas Swanson (guitar, vocals), KJ…
ALBUM REVIEW: Petite League Reinvents Alternative in Thrill Seekers
The Scarier Dome, a collective made up of Syracuse University students who dedicated their time to cultivating the arts, was…
ALBUM REVIEW: Zella Day Creates Genre-Blending Paradise on Sunday In Heaven
Hailing from a Bohemian family in the middle-of-nowhere town of Pinetop, Arizona, singer-songwriter Zella Day quickly set herself apart with…
ALBUM REVIEW: Field Medic’s grow your hair long if you’re wanting to see something that you can change is Hard Hitting Folk
Kevin Sullivan, also known as Field Medic, released his fifth studio album grow your hair long if you’re wanting to…
ALBUM REVIEW: Red Hot Chili Peppers – ‘Return of the Dream Canteen’
Red Hot Chili Peppers return with their newest album ‘Return of the Dream Canteen.’ Collectively, the album is as sonically…
ALBUM REVIEW: Being Funny In A Foreign Language is Classic The 1975’s Pop Rock
The 1975, an English pop rock band consisting of Matthew Healy (vocals, guitarist), Adam Hann (lead guitarist), Ross MacDonald (bassist),…
ALBUM REVIEW: Yeah Yeah Yeahs Cools It Down With Futuristic Rock
Born in New York City in 2000, Yeah Yeah Yeahs took their place in the post-punk spotlight as the genre’s…
ALBUM REVIEW: Maya Hawke Creates An Acoustic Heaven on MOSS
Singer-songwriter Maya Hawke released her sophomore album MOSS on September 23, 2022, under Mom + Pop Music. The Netflix-original actor,…
ALBUM REVIEW: DECIDE is Djo’s Techno-Rock Masterpiece
Joe Keery, the actor behind the iconic Steve Harrington in the Netflix Original Series Stranger Things, released his sophomore album,…
ALBUM REVIEW: Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs Brings 80s Funk in When the Lights Go
British singer-songwriter Orlando Higgenbottom, also known as Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs, released his first album in a decade, When the…
ALBUM REVIEW: Two Door Cinema Club Stays Positive on Keep On Smiling
Although the summer is coming to an end, the season’s upbeat and happy vibes are here to stay with the…
ALBUM REVIEW: Ezra Furman’s All Of Us Flames is the New Modern American Rock
Singer-songwriter Ezra Furman has been creating rock and roll tunes since 2008, originally being a part of Ezra Furman and…
ALBUM REVIEW: Hot Chip – Freakout/Release is a Journey Back to Indie Techno
Created in London, England, indie-electric, synthpop band Hot Chip has been making music since 1995. The band, consisting of multi-instrumentalists…
EP REVIEW: Juliana Madrid – Self-titled Debut EP is Melodic Nostalgia
Indie-pop singer-songwriter Juliana Madrid released her self-titled debut EP, a beautiful compilation of adolescent nostalgia and growing up, on August…
ALBUM REVIEW: flipturn’s Shadowglow is Indie-Rock at its Finest
Indie-rock band flipturn, consisting of Dillon Basse (vocals, guitar), Madeline Jarman (bass), Devon Vonbalson (drums), Tristan Duncan (lead guitar), and…
ALBUM REVIEW: Pale Waves Hits Hard With Pop-Punk Album ‘Unwanted’
English band Pale Waves released their third studio album, Unwanted, on August 12, 2022, a collection of classic angst and…
ALBUM REVIEW: ‘Florist’ by Florist
Indie folk band Florist returned to our headphones on July 29 with their self-titled album. Based in Brooklyn, New York,…
ALBUM REVIEW: Surrender is Maggie Rogers’ Coming-of-Age
In a matter of years, indie pop singer Maggie Rogers has risen to an unfathomable, but certainly well deserved, level…
ALBUM REVIEW: ODESZA Brings Nostalgia on ‘The Last Goodbye’
Electronic duo Harrison Mills and Clayton Knight of ODESZA return to release their latest album ‘The Last Goodbye’ after five…
ALBUM REVIEW: Alexander 23 Tells Broken Heart Tales on New Album ‘Aftershock’
Alexander Glantz, better known as Alexander 23 is an artist with an impressive list of credits, and an even more…
SINGLE REVIEW: Hemlocke Springs’ Debut Song “gimme all ur luv”
Welcome to the era of Hemlocke Springs. Her first single “gimme all ur luv” skyrocketed in popularity on TikTok, and…
ALBUM REVIEW: ‘Screen Violence’ by CHVRCHES
CHVRCHES released their fourth studio album, ‘Screen Violence’ and it delivered a wonderful variety of synth-pop while also contributing an…
ALBUM REVIEW: Indigo De Souza Masters Visceral Indie-Rock on ‘Any Shape You Take’
Indigo De Souza is one of the most fascinating, enthralling indie rock artists to emerge in the past couple…
ALBUM REVIEW: Lorde Finds Her Sunshine on ‘Solar Power’
Lorde’s catalogue has become synonymous with the woes of adolescence, filled with melancholy meditations on fading relationships, mounting responsibilities,…
ALBUM REVIEW: The Killers Return to Their Roots to Find New Sound on ‘Pressure Machine’
The Killers are a band that, like it or not, has solidified their position as one of the most…
ALBUM REVIEW: How Laura Stevenson’s Self-Titled Album Helps Her Cope With Powerlessness
Reconciling ourselves with our own incapabilities in the face of world-imposed pains such as natural disasters and transportation accidents can…
ALBUM REVIEW: Bleachers Uses Observation as a Means for Personal Evolution in ‘Take the Sadness Out of Saturday Night’
Under his solo project Bleachers, singer-songwriter Jack Antonoff, just released his third album Take the Sadness Out of Saturday Night,…
ALBUM REVIEW: Billie Eilish Wrestles With Fame and Intimacy on ‘Happier Than Ever’
From the moment Billie Eilish first started garnering mainstream attention with her 2017 EP ‘don’t smile at me’, she was…
ALBUM REVIEW: ‘Sling’ is Clairo at Her Most Vulnerable, Yet Self-Assured
I remember stumbling upon a young Claire Cottrill on YouTube in 2017, bopping around her bedroom to the sassy lo-fi…
ALBUM REVIEW: The Marías Captivate the Essence of Romance in ‘Cinema’
The Marías dropped their first full-length album, ‘Cinema,’ and it depicted the themes of love, desire and heartbreak. The Los…
ALBUM REVIEW: SPELLLING Unlocks Our Inner Child in her Sprawling Fairytale ‘The Turning Wheel’
Experimental pop has always been a genre that has fascinated me, mixing the conventional with the far-out, the familiar with…
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