Category: MUSIC REVIEWS

Carmen Villain: Sleeper

Carmen Villain’s first single, “Lifeissin”, was a placid ballad with something dark and evasive at its core: Over a faint glimmer of guitar, Villain murmured sour nothings about closing the blinds, going to...

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Batillus: Concrete Sustain

The bulk of “Rust”, the fifth song on the new album from New York heavy metal hoarders Batillus, is pure pit invocation. The quartet falls in behind Willi Stabenau’s initial bass rupture and powers through an up-tempo crunch,...

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Bandshell: Caustic View EP

Bandshell’s part of the ever-growing generation of young artists who, thanks to the digital age, could potentially pass through the gates of dance culture without setting foot inside a single club. In an interview with The...

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Ellen Allien: LISm

Berliner Ellen Allien clearly doesn’t view boundaries in quite the same way as many of her techno peers. Using terms like “fearless” to describe musicians who cycle through contrasting styles in their career...

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Toy Love: Toy Love

Though they existed for less than two years, Toy Love are immeasurably important to the history of New Zealand music. They helped inspire the creation of Flying Nun– perhaps the most important independent label in the...

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Golden Grrrls: Golden Grrrls

Remember how the internet was supposed to make albums extinct? Around the turn of the century, serious-minded pop scholars were telling us that listeners would stop caring about compendiums of songs with pre-designed tracklists...

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Deathfix: Deathfix

Brendan Canty played drums in Fugazi; Rich Morel’s a singer-songwriter with a side-hustle remixing Nelly Furtado songs for the club. The two met when they both joined Bob Mould’s touring band (Morel and the ex-Hüsker...

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Kate Nash: Girl Talk

At 25, English singer-songwriter Kate Nash is still figuring out what she likes musically and, most of all, who she is. She’s doing what most artists who became famous at a young age eventually do, which is to say that she’s...

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Mazes: Ores & Minerals

A few years ago, a micro-scene started brewing in the UK, centered on a loose collection of friendly, lo-fi-leaning rock bands. This cohort was best represented on the 2010 compilation PVI0006/IBB004, jointly released by...

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