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New Animal: Up! EP

Just as I land myself a new, pretty little bicycle to toodle around on, I’ve stumbled smack into this deliriously...

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Laurel Halo: Hour Logic EP

If nothing else, Laurel Halo can be given credit for staying in motion. The follow-up to last year’s quite good...

Articles

R.I.P. The Pop Winds

Fuck.

To the surprise and immense disappointment of everyone who happened upon and quickly fell in love with last year’s...

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The Men: Leave Home

Creating an open-palmed face-slap record is an art often underrated, far more difficult to achieve than one would think, which...

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The Antlers: Burst Apart

I thought we reviewed this album weeks ago. I’m shocked we didn’t, because on first listen this is the most...

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Ty Segall: Goodbye Bread

In rock ’n’ roll, reigning oneself in, mellowing out, is often interpreted as losing one’s edge, as growing old, complacent....

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The Advisory Circle: As the Crow Flies

English label Ghost Box rarely fail to deliver, but with this third release from Jon Brooks’ the Advisory Circle, they’ve...

Tracks

The Pattern Theory: "Ideas of Fun"

Leeds. Not the first place in the UK you’d think of as being the heart of forward-thinking post-rock, but the...

Tracks

Two-Cent Revival: "The Devil's in this Whiskey"

Here’s something novel: a commercially viable country song that isn’t produced to within an inch of its life. It’s to...