Review: The Joy Formidable – AAARTH
AARTH shows the Joy Formidable pushing out of their comfort zone while still retaining the raw power and dynamic shifts found on Hitch.
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Review: Interpol – Marauder
Interpol’s sixth album Marauder is a blend of their early 2000s heyday and the less angular El Pintor that shows the band evolving with confidence.
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Review: Death Cab for Cutie – Thank You for Today
Death Cab’s ninth studio album Thank You for Today is more of exactly what you’d expect from the seasoned indie rockers.
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Review: Animal Collective – Tangerine Reef
Part soundtrack and part concept album, Animal Collective’s 11th effort flows between calm and distressing on its journey beneath the waves.
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Review: Courtney Barnett -Tell Me How You Really Feel
More personal and forthright than its predecessor, Tell Me How You Really Feel relies less on its witty lyrics and more on improved songwriting that showcases a diverse set of rock instrumentation.
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Review: Parquet Courts – Wide Awake
A little less rough around the edges, Wide Awake! shows that it wasn’t rawness that gave Parquet Courts their appeal, but rather genuinely compelling songwriting and inventive approaches to punk attitudes.
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Review: Arctic Monkeys – Tranquility Base Hotel & Casino
Tranquility Base Hotel & Casino is Arctic Monkeys meets Las Vegas lounge in space. If you can approach that with an open mind, you’ll realize how much they’ve made their lofty ambitions work.
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Review: The Vaccines – Combat Sports
The Vaccines’ fourth album Combat Sports combines styles past and present to make an album that doesn’t necessarily push the envelope, but comfortably fulfills its modest ambitions.
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Review: The Voidz – Virtue
Virtue tones down the excesses of the Voidz’s debut to deliver an album that is ultimately more accessible but less compelling.
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Review: Jack White – Boarding House Reach
On third solo album Boarding House Reach, Jack White lays waste to our expectations about his music, but you might not like the results.
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Review: The Decemberists – I’ll Be Your Girl
I’ll Be Your Girl occasionally shows signs of brilliance, but its indecisiveness results less in ingenuity and more in blandness.
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Review: Of Montreal – White Is Relic/Irrealis Mood
The wholly electronic-based White Is Relic/Irrealis Mood is a scatterbrained album that delights as often as it confounds, and really stands out from every other of Montreal release.
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