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While Machine Girl’s musical extremity remains admirable, the songwriting and mixing on U-Void Synthesizer fall flat.
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Everything Is Beautiful and Everything Sucks are solid testaments to both sides of Princess Nokia.
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If you have a relatively high threshold for lo-fi recordings, you should find Come in to be one of the year’s most creative and impassioned rock albums.
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And don’t get me started on the Spongebob theme song cover featuring Corey Taylor.
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Flamboyant is a distillment of what has made bubblegum bass so interesting over the past few years, as well as an apt commentary on gender politics.
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The Origin of My Depression is one of the most harrowing offerings in experimental music this year. Profoundly disturbing and not for the faint of heart.
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Not much of Sli’merre‘s appeal has to do with Young Nudy.
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Mac DeMarco pares his songwriting down to something more minimal on Here Comes the Cowboy, losing a lot of personality along the way.
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A Quiet Farwell is an inventive and consistently stimulating collage of underground hip hop and various strands of abstract music.