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LP.8
Kelly Lee Owens
"This is an emergency. This is a wake-up call," Kelly Lee Owens declares calmly on LP.8 over harsh industrial noise amid frantic, phantasmal flitters of her own voice. "Divide. Divide. Divide and conquer." The voices are gasping, anxious. "I'm tired. You're tired." The punishing sonics keep coming, the sentiment familiar. "We want to be free. Together. None of us are free unless all of us are free. I've been feeling for a long time now that something's...
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Emotional Eternal
Melody's Echo Chamber
Mainly recorded on the outskirts of Stockholm with Dungen's guitarist/multi-instrumentalist Reine Fiske and Fredrik Swahn (best known as a member of The Amazing, another underappreciated Swedish institution of contemporary psych-rock), Emotional Eternal returns to more conventionally song-driven templates after the looser explorations of 2018's Bon Voyage (which also featured Fiske and Swahn). The mood is gentler and more upbeat, like sinking your...
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Scalping
After releasing their debut E.P, Chamber in 2019 and their follow up, Flood in 2021, The bristol-born group have put together a skin-crawling debut album after signing to Fabric's label, Houndstooth. Notorious for their blend of industrial production and absolutely crunched up guitar riffs, the band have applied the spontaneity and enigmatic nature of their live shows onto a record with hypnotics loops and echoes that pull you in, soak you in fuzz...
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Alpha Games
Bloc Party
At times harking back to the glorious early days of Silent Alarm, there’s evidence that the band’s line-up changes have reinvigorated them Bloc Party have been away for a while. It’s been six years to be precise, since they released Hymns, a more restrained, spiritually aware album than most Bloc Party fans were used to. Since then, the band have experienced something of a revamp, with Justin Harris and Louise Bartle providing a...
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