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9 The opening title track from Tortoise’s first album in seven years begins with a fanfare akin to a global news corp…

8 “To feed the fire can be seen as both constructive and destructive. You keep the fire burning, the spark alive,” st…

8 Constructed from a month’s worth of living, predominately improvised, material, ATGCLVLSSCAP could have been one of…

9 Straight-forward, lush and powerful. Three simple words that help to define Shearwater’s most diverse and rich effo…

8 Tindersticks are back with The Waiting Room, the first studio effort since the great 2012’s The Something Rain. We …

9 “If you don’t love me, you don’t love anybody (…) Love is the answer”. The starting point to Savages’ sophomore alb…

9 Even if Julian Cope hadn’t espoused their virtues over a decade ago, it wouldn’t have taken long for the wor…

9 Grimes’ new album wasn’t born out of comfort. More importantly, it seems that Art Angels arrives, among many other …

8 It’s been nearly three years since the London-based trio of Elena Tonra, Igor Haefeli and Remi Aguilella who go by …

8 Though previous circumstances may dampen the celebrations somewhat, Purple is arguably the introduction of Baroness…

8 hree extremely tight friends, their chemistry is a rare thing that results in their composition, in them putting to…

8 There’s more than meets the eye with Lana Del Rey’s 4th album. The soft and feebler sounds that assume the backgrou…

8 It’s with the haunting, beautiful, dramatic, and phantasmagoric-like voice of Marissa Nadler that Wrekmeister Harmo…

8 In art, a pentimento is an alteration in a painting, evidence that the artist has changed his or her mind during th…

9 Let’s face the facts: straightforward rock n’ roll is fucking boring nowadays, everything sounds the same and copyc…