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Blondshell  Violins

This is an artist widening her frame without losing her bite. It’s confident, a little wistful, and often loud in all the right places Northern Transmissions

Blondshell  Violins

On her third album, Sabrina Teitelbaum fights to strike a balance between savage beauty and jagged home truths NME

Blondshell  Violins

Everything great about Blondshell is present on ‘Violins’, but it feels sharper, more adventurous and more assured then ever before Clash

Blondshell  Violins

LA alt-rock singer Blondshell trades plain-speaking lyricism for something more abstract, while Irish rock band Gurriers cut through the noise with their ambitious second album The Independent

Blondshell  Violins

While trying to find and assert herself, the song has her imagining walking down the aisle to Beethoven's Für Elise, even though no one, including her, would pick it as a wedding song All Music

Blondshell  Violins

An often-delicate inward vision that pairs frustration with beauty DIY

Blondshell  Violins

It's in her ability to take the everyday experience and turn it into an epic noise that Violins finds its sweet spot The Line Of Best Fit

Blondshell  Violins

It would be unfair to call Violins Blondshell’s finest work to date, given the strength of her previous albums. What’s clear, though, is that it’s every bit as good as what came before Under The Radar

Protomartyr  Hotel Usona

The album is more eerie in tone than its predecessors, like a distant alarm sounding, trying to amplify the sounds we cannot hear Northern Transmissions

Protomartyr  Hotel Usona

It’s a bleak listen, sure, but Protomartyr haven’t ever been the comforting types. In fact, they’ve chosen the perfect time to double down on their righteous anger and despair, and if everything were to come to a catastrophic end right now, you’ve got the perfect soundtrack for it Far Out

Protomartyr  Hotel Usona

For newcomers, it's a perfectly moody entry point. Hotel Usona is the sound of a band settling into their own skin, creating a space that's uniquely theirs and generously sharing the key Exclaim

Protomartyr  Hotel Usona

From singer Joe Casey’s handmade album artwork to drummer Alex Leonard’s impish, kinetic inversions of classic post-punk rhythm, the Detroit band crafts an austere, unflinching record as bleak as it is cathartic Paste Magazine

Protomartyr  Hotel Usona

This is not a hotel you'd want to stay at any time soon, but it's a remarkable record to spend time with. Print edition only Uncut

Protomartyr  Hotel Usona

Under dim hotel lights, Casey’s lyricism appears foreboding and alien in a way it never has before The Line Of Best Fit

Ezra Collective  Here Because of Hope

Arguably the biggest jazz band in the country return with an album that shows off both their exuberant and more reflective sides musicOMH