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Lately there has been a trend of artists making albums that are too safe or similar for fans to feel any different about them. A majority of us are getting sick of mass-produced mainstream hysteria with little character or flavor.

So when Big Thief subverts expectations with a psych-folk twist on Double Infinity, you would expect it to be embraced. But for some reason, the opposite is happening. Fans are complaining about the new sound, the harsh and dissonant backing vocals from Laraaji ... read more

My hopes for Vanisher, Horizon Scraper being the next great conceptual rap album (as many have been talking about) have all but vanished upon watching the album movie that accompanies its plight.

Despite the production on Vanisher, Horizon Scraper being clean as a whistle, Quadeca consistently proves that more is less on track after track. The album features enough bells and whistles to keep your ADHD preoccupied for a couple millenium, but signals no more meaning beyond the dense collages of ... read more

Grief is extremely fucking complex.

Navigating it can be like a tumultuous voyage on a rocky sea towards Reconciliation Bay. Oftentimes grief is portrayed in music with an overwhelming sense of hopelessness and realization that reconciliation is so far out of one’s reach it may be impenetrable, jagged rocks in its way. But for Sufjan Stevens, it’s covered in tough and sticky honey-buttered kisses and a whole lotta love on Javelin, an album recorded during Stevens’s own ... read more

I’m not sure the band Shearling themselves would be able to muster up a live recording of their debut album M**********r, I Am Both: “Amen” and “Hallelujah”…

With an extremely lengthy runtime of an hour and two minutes being squeezed into a single track, the album reads more as a free-write poetry jam than a fully substantiative album with clean breaks. This doesn’t mean it lacks cohesion within its vivid storytelling of an Appaloosa horse in the ... read more