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Troye Sivan
She's The Best
Troye Sivan features a mood shift on She’s the Best from his earlier work; whether it works depends on if you’re comfortable with the Australian singer layering a different flavor of yearning into the mix
Spectrum Culture
Queens Of The Stone Age
Perfecth
Uses the concept of kintsugi as a practical guide to finding their path forward from the upheaval of their lives and the world
Spectrum Culture
Tony Iommi
From The Dark
From the Dark is probably the best album Black Sabbath guitarist Tony Iommi has released under his own name. It’s definitely good, but it’s also so typical of his music over the past four decades that it’s hard to get very excited about
Spectrum Culture
DIIV
ZIRP!
By the end of ZIRP!, it's clear that Cook's alt-rock and spirited production brings a poppy accessibility to DIIV without losing the emotional complexity of their shoegaze roots
Exclaim
DIIV
ZIRP!
With A.G. Cook’s help, the California band melds electronic, nu metal, and shoegaze on their best album in years
Paste Magazine
DIIV
ZIRP!
With each spin, ZIRP! becomes a stronger listen and truly unravels its status as valid shoegaze milestone
Beats Per Minute
PISS
You Made Me / Skin on Linen
PISS are an aesthetic force, an undeniable juggernaut blending punk, hardcore, and trauma-soaked yet beguiling lyricism to forge one of rock’s stellar debuts
Beats Per Minute
Queens Of The Stone Age
Perfecth
Queens of the Stone Age give us a macabre, mortal album that’s close to ‘Perfecth’
Still Listening
U2
Carnaval de Luz
Irish rock’s crazy diamonds shine on brighter than ever
The Irish Times
PISS
You Made Me / Skin on Linen
This Vancouver quartet have untied that Gordian knot and created something startling, combining monodrama scripts, non-linear broken glass bottle musical atmospherics and historical sample that dance into the sons like some sort of living theatre. Print edition only
Mojo
PISS
You Made Me / Skin on Linen
A brutal album that feels extremely vulnerable as PISS presents their record through a series of progressive sonic tableaux that is equally powerful and heartbreaking
Spill Magazine
Queens Of The Stone Age
Perfecth
This album, approached with an open mind and given time, will offer something more on every listen
Clash
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