Review: Destroyer – Dan’s Boogie
Destroyer settle into a more familiar, predictable groove on their 14th album Dan’s Boogie.
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Review: Panda Bear – Sinister Grift
Sinister Grift is Lennox’s first album that truly shows off his knack for pop songwriting from start to finish.
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Review: Franz Ferdinand – The Human Fear
The Human Fear is a perfectly adequate album that you’ll wish you didn’t have to wait seven years to hear.
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Review: Bright Eyes – Five Dice, All Threes
Even though Five Dice, All Threes is a solid effort from Bright Eyes, it also doesn’t really offer anything you haven’t heard before.
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Review: The Voidz – Like All Before You
On the Voidz’ third album Like All Before You, the band’s experimentation gets distilled into…autotune and muted vocals?
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Review: Fontaines D.C. – Romance
On their fourth album Romance, Fontaines D.C. step away from the darkness and into the 90s and early 2000s.
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Review: Jack White – No Name
No Name is the closest we’ll get to a seventh White Stripes album, and is arguably White’s best solo release.
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Review: The Decemberists – As It Ever Was, So It Will Be Again
The Decemberists’ ninth album As It Ever Was, So It Will Be Again revisits the traditional Americana sound of The King is Dead, with a few twists.
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Review: Vampire Weekend – Only God Was Above Us
Only God Was Above Us succeeds by being more expansive than early Vampire Weekend and much more cohesive than Father of the Bride
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Review: MGMT – Loss of Life
MGMT’s fifth album sounds nothing like its predecessor Little Dark Age, and shows a previously unseen, more vulnerable side to the duo.
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Review: The Vaccines – Pick-Up Full of Pink Carnations
The Vaccines sixth album Pick-Up Full of Pink Carnations is an incredibly safe return to form for the band.
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Review: The National – Laugh Track
The National’s second full-length album of 2023 emphasizes both the strengths and the weaknesses of its predecessor.
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