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While Death Grips’ Government Plates might be one of the most aggressive releases to come from the experimental hip hop trio, it’s also one of their most forgettable, repetitious, short-winded, and half-baked.
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Art Pop is easily Lady Gaga’s most eccentric and colorfully produced album yet. However, she still doesn’t go far enough to keep her very radio-friendly band of pop interesting for an entire album–especially when it comes to lyrics.
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Dallas metal duo Cara Neir has a slightly unorthodox combination of influences backed up with a hard-hitting sound. Sadly, their melody and riff writing could be a bit more adventurous.
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Julianna Barwick’s latest album Nepenthe expanded on her solo-voice sound, adding more piano along with strings and horns and even a choir. One of the album’s most serene cuts, “The Harbinger”, just got the video treatment. The clip opens with some beautiful underwater shots of a body suspended
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POSTMADONNA by Postmadonna The members of Seattle “spazzcore” quartet Postmadonna appear to be in desperate need of some Ritalin. But the animated, effervescent results of their latest self-titled effort are cause for us all to hope that they never want to shake their ADHD. Released earlier this year, Postmadonna is
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Dissed And Dismissed by Tony Molina Be sure to give this debut album from California post-hardcore artist, Tony Molina, a listen. Dissed and Dismissed is comprised of 12 tracks that pack plenty of sick-ass riffs into their seemingly paltry 11-minute total runtime. Notably, the penultimate track is a cover of
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Detroit rapper and producer Black Milk outright wows me with some creative, grimy beats set against some very personal stories on this latest full-length of his, No Poison No Paradise.
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While Four Tet’s latest records has some interesting tech house-flavored beats, the presentation of tracks here seems a little too loose, scattered to leave a lasting impact as an album. Some good tracks, though.
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Sisu’s debut full-length features some pretty sharp choruses and vocal melodies. While I’m not in love with the album, I think this project is showing a lot of promise for the future.
