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John Prine’s age and experience work to his benefit on his first album of new songs in over a decade.
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Phil Elverum’s songwriting enters purposefully rambly territory on Now Only, a worthy epilogue to last year’s A Crow Looked at Me.
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X makes some improvements on the mixing, singing, and songwriting fronts with ?, but the album is still a mixed bag consisting mainly of half-baked song ideas.
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Grid Of Points by Grouper “Parking Lot” is the first single from Grouper’s upcoming album Grid of Points, which will be released on April 27 via Kranky. This will be her first album in four years, following up 2014’s Ruins. The minimalist song is sonically similar to what
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Father John Misty is back with a new single that cranks the self-reference and absurdity dials to 11 (implying he had them at only 10 before). Thankfully, it also happens to be catchy as hell and – surely to the relief of some listeners – more upbeat than much of what made
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Car Seat Headrest’s remake of its Bandcamp classic Twin Fantasy is an improvement on all fronts.
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As we all know at this point, Mark Kozelek is never not recording music, hence the recent announcement of a new collaborative album with Blackstar saxophonist/flautist Donny McCaslin and drummer/previous collaborator Jim White. Mark has a solo album dropping in May, as well as a Sun Kil Moon
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Last month in his annual holiday letter, Mark Kozelek announced not one, but TWO new Sun Kil Moon albums that were in their final stages and would be released in 2018. The first of these is titled simply after the man himself and comes May 11 through Mark’s Caldo
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EDEN’s debut album should appeal to fans of the James Blake strand of alternative R&B, but it’s not really doing much for me.
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Mount Eerie has shared the lengthy lead single from his forthcoming album, Now Only. “Distortion” lives up to its title right out of the gate and suggests that this will perhaps be the Ocean Roar to A Crow Looked at Me‘s Clear Moon. The songwriting is also sounding more
