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The shoegaze veterans aren’t sounding too shabby when they’re not doing generic post-rock things. everything is alive by Slowdive
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Unreal Unearth‘s concept and eclecticism are a promising change of pace for Hozier.
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About as hit-and-miss as its sister album.
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Like its predecessor, Magic 2 only does enough to whet your appetite for Nas and Hit-Boy’s next core collab.
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Killer Mike contains multitudes, some of which aren’t working in his favor here. MICHAEL by Killer Mike
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Rawer and more off-kilter than Villains, but only slightly better. In Times New Roman… by Queens of the Stone Age
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Janelle’s scantest project to date is still pretty decent.
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Protomartyr is still one of the more interesting goth-adjacent bands active today, even if these past couple of albums haven’t banged from front to back. Formal Growth In The Desert by Protomartyr
