Spectreview
Here you’ll find a collection of music reviews using the Spectreview system. We cover everything from popular releases to local music.
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Spectreview: Bartees Strange – Live Forever
Bartees Strange’s debut LP is a remarkable achievement in alternative music, blending diverse styles from multiple genres into a complex portrayal of the search for, and preservation of, identity.
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Spectreview: IDLES – Ultra Mono
IDLES’ Ultra Mono is a blunt instrument, trading specificity and nuance for sheer force and boneheaded anthems.
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Spectreview: Fleet Foxes – Shore
Robin Pecknold has an epiphany on Fleet Foxes’ benevolent, autumnal fourth album.
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Spectreview: Fenne Lily – BREACH
Fenne Lily’s breezy sophomore record is incredibly easy to enjoy thanks to the unassailable confidence of her songwriting.
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Spectreview: Slauson Malone – Vergangenheitsbewältigung (Crater Speak) [EP]
Slauson Malone’s new EP, just like last year’s A Quiet Farewell, is a haunting listen that transcends its intellectual coldness and hits the heart.
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Spectreview: Sam Prekop – Comma
Sam Prekop’s fifth solo record floats by with a benevolent, meditative ease.
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Spectreview: Babe, Terror – Horizogon
The inescapable anxiety of the COVID-19 pandemic foregrounds Babe, Terror's beautiful, strikingly-original Horizogon.
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Spectreview: Lomelda – Hannah
Warmer and more expansive than ever, Hannah succeeds as an evolution of Lomelda’s contemplative musings about communication.
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Spectreview: Angel Olsen – Whole New Mess
Stripped of the grandiosity of its predecessor, Whole New Mess provides a more focused spotlight for Angel Olsen’s universal truths on love and loss.
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Spectreview: Jyoti – Mama, You Can Bet!
Jyoti’s excellent Mama, You Can Bet! is equal parts breezy and weighty, and it further solidifies Georgia Anne Muldrow as an underappreciated master of jazz and soul.