post-hardcore
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Though far from a bad album, Panorama finds La Dispute’s idiosyncratic style becoming an albatross around the band’s neck.
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UK punk outfit IDLES return with an album that improves on the brutal and politically charged style the band delivered on their debut last year. One of the best punk albums of the decade without question!
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Haru Nemuri’s debut album pushes J-pop/rap in an exciting direction by channeling Japan’s rich history of underground rock music.
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More so than Big Ups’ two prior albums, Two Parts Together suffers from a serious lack of refreshing ideas.
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Post-hardcore veterans Glassjaw return with their first album in 15 years.
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Death from Above slay with a hard rock-inspired direction on their latest album, Outrage! Is Now.
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Brand New returns with a chilling, despondent sound.
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For the most part, this self-titled debut from hardcore supergroup Dead Cross offers a good balance between the genre’s original blueprint and some experimentation of their own.
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Converge is back with their first pieces of new music in five years! Admittedly, the lead single “I Can Tell You About Pain” kind of strikes me as the band by the numbers, but the B-side “Eve” is fucking epic and effectively expands upon some of the slow and sludgy
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A very belated review of the latest Pissed Jeans album, which offers a funny and noisy commentary on love in the present-day.