Reviews

Your New Favourite Band You’ve Never Heard Of

Bibi Club – Amaro

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Photo: Manoushka Larouche

The world may be in disarray, yet precious little has shifted in the orbit of post-punk stalwarts Makthaverskan

Makthaverskan – Glass and Bones

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Photo: Ceasar Segergren

Kim Gordon Puts Trump’s Forbidden Lexicon to Her Lips

Kim Gordon – Play Me

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Photo: Moni Haworth

One of electronic music’s great iconoclasts suddenly sounds like everyone else

James Blake – Trying Times

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Photo: Harrison & Adair

Dreamlike, muted and beguiling – yet never quite airborne

Poliça – Dreams Go

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Photo: Zoe Prinds-Flash

Scant Innovation Across an Ostensibly Amateur Set

Molly Nilsson – Amateur

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Photo: Press photo

The Subversive Artist Does It Again

John Maus – Later Than You Think

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Photo: Paul Maffi

When silence becomes the loudest absence

Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith - Gush

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Photo: Tim Saccenti

An Hour or So in the Lo-Fi Church with Lael Neale

Lael Neale – Concert, Musikcaféen

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Photo: Nicolaj Roos

Low-Key, High Impact on Future Classic

Lael Neale – Altogether Stranger

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Photo: Seven Ruck

Who Slipped the Seattle Quartet a Magic Potion?

Deep Sea Diver – Billboard Heart

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Photo: Sub Pop

Hurrah for the New Weird America!

CocoRosie – Little Death Wishes

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Photo: Daria Miasoedova

A Flat Turn From a Band Known for Edge

Garbage – Let All That We Imagine Be the Light

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Photo: Joseph Cultice

Irresistible Synth Drift With a Fitting Dose of Underground

Another Body Found – Scooterboys from the Pool

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Photo: Cover photo

Versatile Shoegazer Stares a Little Too Long at his Shoes

Andy Bell – Pinball Wanderer

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Photo: Perou, Press photo