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Jeff Parker’s ‘Happy Today’ Glows In Slow Motion Jeff Parker EVA IVtet (photo: Sam Lee) “Where’s Jeff?” The question weighed heavily at Tortoise’s live shows over the past year, during which his integral contribution to the Chicago instrumental legends’ heady sound was often missed. Indeed, it seems the L.A.-based guitarist is focusing on his solo […]
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MUNA Makes Anxiety Sound Euphoric On New LP MUNA (photo: Dean Bradshaw) The reactionary forces that have seized America continue to try to erase queer people from public life, but MUNA will be damned if it lets some bigots ruin its good time. And while many of us hit the dance floor to forget our […]
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No Man, (Mostly) No Problem: Kacey Musgraves Roams Free (photo: Christine Sutton) On Middle of Nowhere, Kacey Musgraves doesn’t so much return to her roots as redraw the map entirely — one where solitude isn’t a pit stop between relationships but the destination itself. Written in the aftermath of a breakup and shaped by long […]
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Older, Sadder, Better: American Football Leans In On ‘LP4’ (photo: Alexa Viscius) On its improbable third album since reuniting in 2014 after a 14-year hiatus, American Football isn’t interested in reclaiming youth so much as interrogating what came after it. The Sonny DiPerri-co-produced LP4 (Polyvinyl) doesn’t just revisit the band’s long-established emotional palette – it […]
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Sub*T searches for their ‘Own Voice’ Sub*T. (Credit: Elise Bergmann) We all have musical happy places. Y’know, that certain vocal style or guitar tone or even decade-specific production tic that transports us like the meal at the end of Ratatouille to joyous remembrances of times past. My comfort trigger? The fuzzy guitars favored by ’90s […]
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Kneecap Won’t Stop Fighting and Partying on ‘Fenian’ Kneecap Won’t Stop Fighting and Partying on ‘Fenian’ It is impossible to remove politics from the music of Kneecap. But unlike many other political bands, the Irish hip-hop trio knows how to have a good time while spreading their message. New album Fenian continues to take aim […]
