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A Place To Bury Strangers - Pinned
An APTBS-shaped void in our collective hearts where the unapologetically, unforgivingly brutal band once was»
The Radio Dept. - Running Out of Love
Musically it's 4 am in the Hacienda. Emotionally, it's dawn on the last day of your life»
Thom Sonny Green - High Anxiety
It's not flawless and it's not a masterpiece - but few souls are»
The Verve - A Storm in Heaven/A Northern Soul (2016 remastered/deluxe)
A six-hour-vortex into the best the Verve have ever been»
Night School - Blush
You'd be forgiven for believing, on your first listen, that Blush is the same track repeated ten times over»
Nothing - Tired of Tomorrow
Nothing shine a stark white light on reality. As they always have»
The Veldt - The Shocking Fuzz of Your Electric Fur: The Drake Equation
Welcome home, The Veldt»
Iron Maiden - The Book of Souls
An album that wouldn't be out of place if it had come out 30 years ago»
Pure X - Angel
You could listen to their heartbroken exhalation indefinitely.»
Black Hearted Brother - Got Your Love
Got Your Love radiates the present and remains refreshingly nostalgia-free.»
The Notwist - Close to the Glass
Close to the Glass isn't quite the luxurious auditory and emotional jacuzzi The Notwist's albums have been in the past. It's more a wading pool made of obligation and diffidence.»
God Is An Astronaut - Origins
God is an Astronaut is the most human post-rock has ever been.»
Medicine - To the Happy Few
Medicine have created an album for their listeners. They should have done it for themselves.»
Field Harmonics - Walls
Walls suffers the same fate as the bands it ends up honoring - it can never be called 'beautiful'. But it gives you nothing to complain about. It's a capable, though not expert, guide leading you through a time that you never forgot.»
Ghost Outfit - I Want You to Destroy Me
The album is called I Want You To Destroy Me and all it wants to do is live.»
Thought Forms - Ghost Mountain
No-wave, drone, shoegaze, lo-fi, post-metal - the something-for-everyone Ghost Mountain is difficult not to like. But that’s also the reason it’s difficult to love.»
Gnod - Chaudelande
Chaudelande is what it is - it asks questions and doesn't expect answers.»
A Place To Bury Strangers - Worship
'Leaving Tomorrow' with its companions from the beginning of the album - 'Alone', 'Mind Control' and, most significantly, 'You Are The One' are the ones that still serve to act as reminders of how there's music in almost any object.»
Silversun Pickups - Neck of the Woods
A snip here, a clip there – you’ll be left with a far more enjoyable recording.»
A Place To Bury Strangers - Onwards to the Wall EP
It is unmistakeably A Place To Bury Strangers and they're giving us what we want.»
Epic 45 - Weathering
Plays as if it were a storybook.»
thisquietarmy - Vessels
The familiar frosty, somewhat feminine charms of past efforts have been drastically abandoned. Vessels is stereotypically masculine - but not brutishly so.»
Various - 3...2...1... A Rocket Girl Compilation
Rocket Girl is a label that adheres so steadfastly to the OG concept of 'independent' that it may well be just one person putting out whimsical mixtapes for no selfish purpose aside from having us share with her her treasures. »
The Notwist - Neon Golden / On/Off The Record (Deluxe Edition)
There is not a single wasted note on the record.»
Autolux - Transit Transit
Where Future Perfect knocked us right off our feet, Transit Transit doesn't seem to have the energy to even push us slightly to the left. »
Kula Shaker - Pilgrims Progress
Pilgrims Progress is an album with a plan. »
jj - jj nº 3
Puffed up with an assortment of psychoactives, it lies semi-stupefied and mumbles incoherently for most of its duration, waking up just in time to shuffle dazedly out the door leaving half its belongings behind.»
Serena Maneesh - S-M 2: Abyss in B Minor
Ignore S-M 2's cliquey aura, for it is more a facade than anything. Make your way past the defensive drone it puts up and you will be rewarded with warm, welcoming fuzz. Abyss in B-Minor isn't elitist or an acquired taste, it's just a little guarded. Put your trust in Serena Maneesh and they will reward you by making you feel powerful - nearly omnipotent - yet simultaneously sedate. »
Memory Tapes - Seek Magic
O how you vex me, Dayve Hawke. You vex me because I know you are just one person, yet two of your three alter egos have names in t»