Tag: olive
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Spectreview: Beach Fossils – The Other Side of Life: Piano Ballads
Beach Fossils substitute guitar for saxophone, upright bass and piano in these jazzy, comforting reinterpretations of past songs.
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Spectreview: Home Is Where – I Became Birds
Home Is Where’s excellent new record is a diorama of small-town iconography stretched to surrealistic dimensions.
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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: Car Seat Headrest – Making A Door Less Open
Car Seat Headrest’s first album of new material since 2016’s career-defining Teens of Denial capitulates under too much carefree exploration.
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Spectreview: Mush – 3D Routine
Leeds punks Mush taunt the status quo in the angular art-rock of 3D Routine.
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Spectreview: Big Bite – Trinity
Big Bite's Trinity trades the searing haze of their debut LP for weightier, stomping dinosaur rock.
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Spectreview: Dude York – Falling
Dude York’s Falling shifts the scales towards overt pop for the long-running Seattle punk band, as bassist Claire England finally gets her time to shine.
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Spectreview: Maklak – The Age of Anxiety
Maklak’s inspired stoner metal roars on The Age of Anxiety.
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Spectreview: Actionesse – The Deep, Bright Below
Actionesse’s debut album is a ferocious, goofily fun take on post-hardcore.