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  • Dec 3 Album Reviews

    lobsterfight - pink, black, and orange in the corners.

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    lobsterfight’s rough-and-ready debut is one of the year’s most promising indie and emo showings.

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  • Dec 2 Album Reviews

    Bad Bunny - El Último Tour del Mundo

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    Bad Bunny’s third album of 2020 is a bit of a rough ride.

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  • Dec 1 Album Reviews

    Miley Cyrus - Plastic Hearts

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    Overproduction notwithstanding, Plastic Hearts stands out for bringing a bit of edge to the current 80s revival.

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  • Nov 29 Album Reviews

    Liturgy - Origin of the Alimonies

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    Liturgy’s latest is a metaphysical big bang, turning Ravenna Hunt-Hendrix’s theological philosophy into a multifaceted experimental metal opera.

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  • Nov 25 Album Reviews

    Kali Uchis - Sin miedo

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    While by no means a sophomore slump, Sin miedo may leave the listener a little too hungry for more.

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  • Nov 24 Album Reviews

    King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard - K.G.

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    K.G. sounds like a slightly weaker reiteration of King Gizz’s previous forays into microtonality.

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  • Nov 23 Album Reviews

    Megan Thee Stallion - Good News

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    Megan Thee Stallion sells herself short artistically on her still mostly decent debut album.

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  • Nov 22 Album Reviews

    William Basinski - Lamentations

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    Though some of Lamentations‘ pieces could have used some fleshing out, it remains one of the year’s most emotionally potent ambient efforts.

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  • Nov 19 Album Reviews

    Aesop Rock - Spirit World Field Guide

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    Spirit World Field Guide‘s purposeful meandering and not-so-sticky hooks are occasional turnoffs, but the album still delivers the conceptuality and adept rapping it’s safe to expect from Aesop Rock.

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  • Nov 18 Album Reviews

    Undeath - Lesions of a Different Kind

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    Undeath’s full-length debut is a solid death metal album whose greatest sin is sometimes succumbing to the genre’s basic tropes.

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