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Album Review: Real Estate - "Daniel"
Real Estate sound as simple, stripped back, and straightforward as ever on Daniel. Like much of their music before, there's much beauty...
Josh Bokor
Apr 26, 20243 min read
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Album Review: Liam Gallagher & John Squire - "Liam Gallagher & John Squire"
It's a record that, yes, isn't at all a creative or experimental endeavor for the two UK rock legends but one that showcases their...
Josh Bokor
Apr 26, 20244 min read
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Album Review: MGMT - "Loss of Life"
Titled Loss of Life, this is ironically MGMT's most optimistic, bright, and warm release in the band's entire career. The band...
Josh Bokor
Apr 19, 20245 min read
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Album Review: The Smile - "Wall of Eyes"
Wall of Eyes  acts like a loose continuation of the experimentation The Smile played with previously, only delving further into the...
Josh Bokor
Mar 4, 20243 min read
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Album Review: M. Ward - "supernatural thing"
Like most M. Ward albums, there's a great balance of lushious slow balladry and upbeat rockers with heavy nods to the radio and radio...
Josh Bokor
Nov 27, 20233 min read
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Album Review: Janelle Monáe - "The Age of Pleasure"
The Age of Pleasure is celebratory, fun and breezy and rightfully so. The severe lack of grandiose detail, theatrics, and complexity that...
Josh Bokor
Oct 16, 20233 min read
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Album Review: Rose City Band - "Garden Party"
Who's up for a Garden Party? Rose City Band certainly are and it's all pure bliss here. Thrill Jockey mainstays Rose City Band have been...
Josh Bokor
Oct 4, 20232 min read
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Album Review: Blur - "The Ballad of Darren"
The UK Brit Pop kings return with another comeback album eight years after their previous one. The Ballad of Darren certainly has its...
Josh Bokor
Oct 4, 20232 min read
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Album Review: Squid - "O Monolith"
With O Monolith, Squid seem to deepen towards not only the more experimental, patience testing, and slowly gratifying realms of post rock...
Josh Bokor
Oct 4, 20233 min read
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Album Review: Tanlines - "The Big Mess"
Tanlines' sound is more mature, aged and slicked back than ever before. Even though this isn't the fireworks I was anticipating, The Big...
Josh Bokor
Jun 21, 20234 min read
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Album Review: Tinariwen - "Amatssou"
For those who find Tinariwen's detailed grooves, sharp guitar playing, and tightly knit performances inviting, then Amtssou is yet...
Josh Bokor
Jun 9, 20233 min read
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Album Review: Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds - "Council Skies"
For fans of Oasis or Noel Gallagher's solo work, Council Skies acts like a return to form or even a rehash of his past work. It's...
Josh Bokor
Jun 9, 20234 min read
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Album Review: Paul Simon - "Seven Psalms"
Seven Psalms isn't simply just a new album within Paul Simon's vast discography. It's definitely one of his most adventurous, intriguing,...
Josh Bokor
Jun 7, 20233 min read
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Album Review: Esther Rose - "Safe to Run"
Like many of Esther Rose's past songs being emotionally gut punching, every song from Safe to Run blasts repeatedly through your chest...
Josh Bokor
May 31, 20234 min read
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Album Review: Feist - "Multitudes"
Multitudes is Feist's quietest, most intimate, and patient record to date. This is not an immediate one where everything will click for...
Josh Bokor
May 31, 20235 min read
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Album Review: The Beths - "Expert In a Dying Field"
New Zealanders The Beths are a genuine, seemingly down to Earth group that just want to make lovely indie rock and pop that's straight...
Josh Bokor
May 22, 20234 min read
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Album Review: Yaeji - "With a Hammer"
The way Yaeji expresses the anger and rage she's built up on With a Hammer is quite uniquely personal and original to hear. It's a...
Josh Bokor
Apr 28, 20235 min read
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Album Review: The National - "First Two Pages of Frankenstein"
On their new album First Two Pages of Frankenstein, The National decide to go with their safest and most predictable album in their...
Josh Bokor
Apr 28, 20234 min read
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Album Review: Black Country, New Road - "Live at Bush Hall"
Another year later comes another album from Black Country, New Road and yet another reinvention of the band. Their new set of material...
Josh Bokor
Apr 24, 20233 min read
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Album Review: Heinali - "Kyiv Eternal"
Even though Ukrainian ambient artist Oleh Shpudeiko strings together years-old bits and pieces from his back catalog, Kyiv Eternal still...
Josh Bokor
Apr 20, 20234 min read
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