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Loose Omens Feels Intentional From Start to Finish, Guided by a Clear Artistic Vision and a Refusal to Compromise

With Loose Omens, Absinthe Vows have very clearly decided that “making a normal album” is not on the table, locked in a drawer, and thrown into the sea. This is a double album, which in 2026 is already a mildly unhinged act of confidence. This isn’t a victory lap or a retrospective or a playlist […]

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Arsenal of Democracy Isn’t Comforting or Polite

Let’s get this out of the way first: Arsenal of Democracy by Energy Whores is not here to vibe politely in the background while you fold laundry. This album wants your attention, your discomfort, and ideally your blood pressure. Energy Whores, the New York–based DIY project led by Carrie Schoenfeld with guitarist Attilio Valenti, have

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The Definition of Insanity, a Commodity, a Human Being Feels Less Like a Collection of Songs and More Like a Checkpoint

Gwynn Davies’ new project The Definition of Insanity, A Commodity, A Human Being, arrives with the kind of title that already feels like it’s squinting at the state of the world and asking, “Okay, but are we doing this on purpose?” It’s long, it’s slightly unwieldy, and it immediately tells you that this is not

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Between Light and Shadow: Experiencing “21 Grammi”

21 Grammi feels like stepping inside someone’s mind, unfiltered and alive. The album drifts between memory, desire, chaos, and fragile hope. Every track is a world on its own, but together they trace a thread of vulnerability, urgency, and longing. The album doesn’t guide you gently, it throws you into experiences, emotions, and reflections, leaving

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Reverie … From Then Till Now Is the Sound of Someone Finally Comfortable Enough to Speak in Her Own Time and Inviting You to Listen Just as Carefully

There’s a familiar mythology attached to artists who return to music after decades away. The narrative usually demands a comeback story, complete with redemption arcs and triumphant rediscovery. REVERIE … FROM THEN TILL NOW resists that framing. Michellar’s album doesn’t sound like someone scrambling to reclaim lost time; it sounds like the work of someone

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Protected: The World Inside Album Feels Like Sitting Across From Someone Who Is Smart, a Little Anxious, Deeply Sincere, and Trying Very Hard to Articulate Something That Doesn’t Fit Neatly Into a Chorus

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What Makes the Unreasonables Work Is Not Nostalgia; It’s Intention

There are two kinds of nostalgia records. One kind treats the past like a museum exhibit: everything behind glass, perfectly preserved, spiritually dead. The other treats it like a toolbox; something you can reach into, grab a sound, and start building something new with it. The Unreasonables belongs firmly in the second camp. This is

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Watching the World Go By Trusts That If You Sit With It Long Enough, It Will Reveal Itself

WATCHING THE WORLD GO BY is the kind of album that sneaks up on you; not because it’s quiet, but because it’s patient. Jernej Zoran’s seventh full-length record since 2012 doesn’t announce itself as a grand statement so much as it calmly sets up a chair, plugs in a guitar, and waits for you to

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