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Arcadia

Smash Into Pieces

Smash Into Pieces - Arcadia 7.5

Album review

Electronic
Pop
Rock
Arcadia is built around a voice and a beat more often than a guitar riff. Smash Into Pieces make electronic textures carry much of…

Attention Attention

Shinedown

Shinedown - Attention Attention 7.9

Album review

Hard Rock
Rock
DEVIL gives Attention Attention a sharp opening after its brief introduction. The riff has a restless bounce, the vocal sounds…

Impulse Voices

Plini

Plini - Impulse Voices 8.6

Album review

Progressive rock/metal
Rock
The harp solo in The Glass Bead Game captures the open character of Impulse Voices. Plini allows an unexpected instrument to…

A Brief Inquiry into Online Relationships

The 1975

The 1975 - A Brief Inquiry into Online Relationships 8.5

Album review

Electronic
Indie
Pop
Rock
A Brief Inquiry into Online Relationships is most interesting when its musical warmth complicates what the words are saying. The…

Phobia

Breaking Benjamin

Breaking Benjamin - Phobia 8.2

Album review

Alternative Metal
Metal
Post-Grunge
Rock
The drums make a strong first impression on Phobia. Once the short introduction gives way to The Diary of Jane, Breaking…

Hand. Cannot. Erase.

Steven Wilson

Steven Wilson - Hand. Cannot. Erase. 9.4

Album review

Progressive rock/metal
Rock
Routine is the moment when the distance in Hand. Cannot. Erase. becomes painfully human. Steven Wilson and Ninet Tayeb move…

Hellmode

Jeff Rosenstock

Jeff Rosenstock - Hellmode 8.4

Album review

Indie
Pop Punk
Punk rock
Rock
Hellmode is a good place to hear how much Jeff Rosenstock can say by changing the space around his voice. The frantic songs remain…

Dead Anthems

The Rumjacks

The Rumjacks - Dead Anthems 8.1

Album review

Folk
Punk rock
Rock
The Rumjacks make it fairly easy to join in. Dead Anthems has the big choruses, lively folk instruments and rough-edged singing…

Finding Beauty in Negative Spaces

Seether

Seether - Finding Beauty in Negative Spaces 7.6

Album review

Hard Rock
Metal
Post-Grunge
Rock
Fake It has an unpleasant little swagger that works in its favour. The guitar hook is sharp, the rhythm is springy and Shaun…

Holy Diver

Dio

Dio - Holy Diver 9.1

Album review

Heavy Metal
Metal
Rock
Ronnie James Dio sings as though every phrase needs to reach the back of a very large room. On Holy Diver, that confidence is…

Nothing But Thieves

Nothing But Thieves

Nothing But Thieves - Nothing But Thieves 8.4

Album review

Alternative Rock
Indie
Rock
Conor Mason's voice is the obvious attraction on Nothing But Thieves' debut, but the songs are strong enough to keep that voice…

Para Bellum

Testament

Testament - Para Bellum 8.0

Album review

Metal
Rock
Thrash Metal
Para Bellum opens with a reminder that Testament can still make a fairly unpleasant noise when they want to. For the Love of Pain…

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