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Spectreview: Casper Skulls – Knows No Kindness
On their excellent second record, Casper Skulls add a thematic focus and a beating heart to their novelistic take on alternative.
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Spectreview: Illuminati Hotties – Let Me Do One More
Illuminati Hotties' Let Me Do One More gleefully upends unbridled consumerism in confrontational, occasionally devastating ways.
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Spectreview: Wednesday – Twin Plagues
Wednesday nearly perfect their signature mix of country, shoegaze and suburban ennui on the humid, affecting Twin Plagues.
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Spectreview: The Armed – ULTRAPOP
The Armed's ULTRAPOP is brilliantly variegated heavy music that begs (ironically) to be isolated from the enigmatic band's promotional antics.
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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: Redveil – Niagara
On Niagara, young Maryland rapper Redveil matures by leaps and bounds, laying down a skillful collection of songs that radiate self-confidence.
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Spectreview: New Fries – Is The Idea of Us
Toronto experimental band New Fries return after four years with an excellent record that's steeped in no-wave and stuffed with bright ideas.
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Spectreview: Elvis Depressedly – depressedelica
Elvis Depressedly’s depressedelica, despite the dire context, still feels strangely joyous in its confident stylistic shifts.
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Spectreview: Destroyer – Have We Met
25 years in, Dan Bejar looks back (and inward) amid the burbling electronics and charmingly archaic synth lines of Destroyer's Have We Met.
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Spectreview: ings – Lullaby Rock
ings’ Lullaby Rock is a triumphant debut LP and a profound panacea for today's daily onslaught of negativity.