Reviews

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Album Review: LavaLove’s ‘Tan Lines’ Burns Bright, Fades Sweet

There is a specific kind of delusion required to make a surf-rock record in…

By
Ezra Calloway
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Album Review: skaiwater’s ‘wonderful’ Is a Step in the Wrong Direction

skaiwater's 'wonderful' swaps inventive alchemy for rote rage rap, proving the Nottingham rapper's biggest…

By
Imogen Hartley
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Album Review: Melanie Martinez Burns the World Down on New Album ‘Hades’

Melanie Martinez's 'Hades' is an 18-track alt-pop reckoning with toxic masculinity, misogyny, climate crisis,…

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Imogen Hartley
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Album Review: Yeat ADL Proves He Is One of Rap’s Most Ambitious Architects

Yeat drops his sixth album 'ADL,' a 21-track double LP with BNYX, YoungBoy, Don…

By
Demarco Hines