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JeezJesus’ Latest LP, “Somewhere Between Love & Misery,” Is Brave and Bold

In today’s landscape, it’s not just about the skills because we are all skilled enough to create music. It’s now a battle of character and identity, but what if the artist decided to showcase multiple identities just because they can? I’m talking about JeezJesus and his brand new LP, Somewhere Between Love & Misery. Join […]

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The Dawn Razor’s Latest Album, “In Sublime Presence,” Is the Exception

I have to be completely honest. Listening to a metal album can be really tiring. Some albums feel like we can just remix each song because they all sound the same, but The Dawn Razor’s latest album, ‘In Sublime Presence’, is, for me, an exception. Join me as I discuss this LP in length and

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Industry Plant Is a Love Letter to Imperfection, to the Joy of Making Noise With Your Friends Until It Starts to Sound Like Something True

There’s a rare kind of confidence that comes from building something entirely on your own and Bury The Pines wear that confidence like armor. Their debut full-length, Industry Plant, doesn’t sound like a first record. It sounds like a proof of concept; that a band can throw post-hardcore, progressive rock, math rock, and pure emotional

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Ultimately, Rare Brew Isn’t About Nostalgia So Much as Endurance

With recent album ‘Pertinax’, Suris, composed of Lindsey and David Mackiemade a record that was almost embarrassingly earnest. It didn’t wink at you. It didn’t sound like it was written by a committee trying to forecast next week’s Spotify trend. It just existed, lush and vulnerable, the sound of two people who actually cared. The

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Patchwork Is Warm, Unpretentious, and Remarkably Cohesive Despite Genre-Hopping Like It’s Collecting Stamps

Andrew Savage’s Patchwork is the kind of debut album that sounds like it was recorded by three people who wandered into a studio, shrugged collectively, and said, “Yeah, that seems in tune enough.” And I mean that in the most complimentary way possible. It’s unpolished, a little wobbly, very human and brilliant. This is an

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Jay2n Builds a World Out of Echoes, Tension, and Vulnerability on …Sacrifice

There’s a particular kind of indie project that feels less like an album and more like someone documenting their nervous system in real time. …Sacrifice, Jay2n’s self-written, self-produced hip hop experiment, fits squarely into that category, but in the best way. It doesn’t swagger or posture or dress itself up as something hyper-polished. Instead, it

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Steve White & the Protest Family’s “Evidence-Based Punk Rock” LP Is Punk in All Its Meaning

In my years of reviewing and critiquing music, I always fumble on the question, “What is the meaning of punk music?” Some say it’s loud and unapologetic music. Others would say it’s about being different, and I can say, it’s all correct. Let Steve White & The Protest Family’s latest LP, Evidence-Based Punk Rock, help

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Throughout Around This Edge Together, The7thGatekeeper Doesn’t Hide the Uneven Edges

There’s a particular magic to DIY albums, by which I mean the kind of magic you get when someone records an entire emotional exorcism inside a room that is, by every reasonable metric, unfit for human occupation. Around This Edge Together is exactly that sort of project: a nine-track odyssey made inside what The7thGatekeeper calls

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deadwater’s Revelry in Reverie Is the Rare Basement Grunge Record That Isn’t Defined by Its Limitations

There’s something strangely beautiful about an album made entirely in a basement. Not in the romanticized, Hollywood-montage sense, but in the real sense: a probably-too-humid, maybe-questionably-wired below-ground bunker where a man with a guitar and a laptop decided that normalcy was overrated. That man is deadwater, and the result of his subterranean stubbornness is Revelry

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Giuseppe Cucé’s “21 grammi” Isn’t Just A Concept, It’s The Gravity Of Human Experience

It’s a bit of a downplay to call Giuseppe Cucé’s “21 grammi” an album. You know when an artist is serious about their work, and there are not enough words to unearth its depth and meaning? That’s exactly it. It’s the kind that doesn’t just stick but leaves you smirking, intrigued, changed, or even challenged.

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