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The Temperance Movement
The Temperance Movement
The Temperance Movement's debut makes a familiar blues rock sound feel convincing through the quality of the playing and singing. There is no big change to the style here. Ins…
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Chrome Neon Jesus
Teenage Wrist
Chrome Neon Jesus draws openly from the guitar music of the 1990s, but Teenage Wrist make a strong case for returning to those sounds. Their debut album places dreamy singing …
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Melee
Dogleg
Melee makes its intentions clear through speed, loud guitars and a voice that rarely holds anything back. Dogleg play emotional punk with the precision of a band who know how …
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Blending
High Vis
Blending finds High Vis opening up their sound while keeping the force behind it. The London band's guitars reach towards brighter post-punk and British indie rock, but Graham…
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Belighted
Iamthemorning
Belighted builds a detailed musical world around Gleb Kolyadin's piano and Marjana Semkina's voice. Iamthemorning combine classical influences, folk colours and occasional hea…
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Life on Earth
Hurray for the Riff Raff
Life on Earth gives Hurray for the Riff Raff a wider musical setting without losing the directness of Alynda Segarra's voice. Synths, beats and spacious production sit beside …
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Metamodern Sounds in Country Music
Sturgill Simpson
Metamodern Sounds in Country Music gives familiar country forms some unusual company. Sturgill Simpson sings with a deep, rough voice, and the band can move through a barroom …
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Beside Myself
Basement
Beside Myself brings Basement's melodies into sharper focus. The guitars sound clear and substantial, and Andrew Fisher's voice keeps its vulnerable character without being bu…
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Adore
The Smashing Pumpkins
Adore places the Smashing Pumpkins' melodies in a quieter, darker setting. Acoustic guitars, keyboards and programmed rhythms give the arrangements a different kind of weight,…
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Get Some
Snot
Get Some brings a playful rhythmic character to its heavy guitar sound. Snot mix punk energy, funk grooves and metal weight, with Lynn Strait's voice moving between a rough at…
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The Whippoorwill
Blackberry Smoke
The Whippoorwill brings country singing and substantial rock playing together without making either feel like an added extra. Blackberry Smoke use a familiar musical language,…
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Sway
Whirr
Sway slows Whirr's guitar sound down and gives it more weight. Most of the songs move through dense layers of distortion, with the singing drifting inside them rather than sta…
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Free Hand
Gentle Giant
Free Hand gives Gentle Giant's complicated progressive rock a particularly clear melodic focus. The instruments and voices often follow different paths, yet the songs retain a…
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Holding All the Roses
Blackberry Smoke
Holding All the Roses gives Blackberry Smoke's Southern rock a tighter shape. The songs leave room for guitar playing, country detail and soul, but none needs a long instrumen…
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California Cursed
Drain
California Cursed brings a sharp metal edge to Drain's hardcore. The guitars move quickly, the rhythms have a strong bounce and Sammy Ciaramitaro gives the music a restless vo…
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Lighthouse
Iamthemorning
Lighthouse gives Iamthemorning's piano-led music a darker, more connected shape. The singing and piano remain at the centre, but strings, guitars and an active rhythm section …
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All Roads Lead Here
Chimp Spanner
All Roads Lead Here puts more care into its arrangements than a simple guitar showcase needs. Chimp Spanner is the project of Paul Antonio Ortiz, whose music brings bright lea…
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Heavy Soul
Joanne Shaw Taylor
Heavy Soul brings Joanne Shaw Taylor's stronger guitar sound into close contact with the soul and pop side of her writing. The ten-song set is clear and focused, with enough r…
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Phanerozoic II: Mesozoic | Cenozoic
The Ocean
Phanerozoic II: Mesozoic | Cenozoic gives The Ocean's heavy music a wider range of sounds. Electronic textures, orchestral detail and different vocal approaches become central…
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Midas
Wunderhorse
Midas gives Wunderhorse's guitar songs a rougher, more immediate sound. The playing often feels close to the edge, with distorted guitars, heavy drums and Jacob Slater's voice…
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Radiance
The Dead Daisies
Radiance gives The Dead Daisies a substantial hard-rock sound, with thick guitar riffs, a firm rhythm section and Glenn Hughes' expressive voice at its centre. The performance…
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Walk Through Fire
Yola
Walk Through Fire makes Yola's voice the centre of an inviting country-soul record. The arrangements look back to an earlier meeting of soul, pop and country, with strings, or…
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Death Spells
Holy Fawn
Death Spells gives its heavy guitars a wider purpose than simply making the quiet parts seem smaller. Holy Fawn combine soft voices, electronic details and blurred melodies wi…
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Revolution Revolución
Ill Niño
Revolution Revolución gives Ill Niño's heavy sound a clear point of difference through percussion, acoustic guitar and melodic singing. Those elements are part of the songs ra…
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