6/10
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Post-grunge veterans Foo Fighters drop a raw but spotty album with Concrete and Gold.
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Myrkur’s sophomore album still leaves something to be desired on the songwriting front, but is nevertheless a much better-developed product than her debut.
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Zola Jesus’ latest effort may be grand in presentation, but it’s a little light on substance and quality songwriting.
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Action Bronson continues to bring the humor, the flow, and the heart on Blue Chips 7000, but the album is pretty underdeveloped on the whole.
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New York indietronic legends LCD Soundsystem return with a tepid set of songs with washed out mixes and lackluster lyrics.
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Mark Ronson’s flat production doesn’t do any favors for Villains, Queens of the Stone Age’s most mixed bag of tracks to date.
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Grizzly Bear returns from a five-year hibernation with a mirror image of their previous album, Shields.
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The latest Everything Everything album finds the UK art pop outfit taking their songwriting in a moodier and somewhat more conventional direction.
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NY rapper A$AP Ferg delivers a slight return to form with his latest mixtape.
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Ski Mask the Slump God’s outlandish and sometimes gross lyricism is sure to put off some listeners, but his animated performances left quite an impression on me over the short runtime of this latest mixtape.
