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The Antlers
Emotionally exhausting yet frequently stunning, this is an effortlessly compelling and haunting addition to Peter Silberman and co’s impressive canon After almost 20 years together, it should be pretty well established that you don’t come to The Antlers to be cheered up. This is the band whose best album, the superlative Hospice, is a concept album detailing a relationship between a hospice worker and a patient dying from cancer. A band...
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The Besnard Lakes Are The Ghost Nation
The Besnard Lakes
It takes some talent to make a weighty subject like the death of a country’s identity and turn it into a rousing, intricate record. Yet here we are The Besnard Lakes may never have quite made the commercial breakthrough that the ‘other’ husband/wife band from Montreal, Arcade Fire, made, but their sheer longevity means that a new album from Jace Lasek and Olga Goreas is always a welcome event. Although never the most overtly political...
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Belong
Jay Som
While Belong isn't as pop-driven as 2019's Anak Ko and 2017's Everybody Works, the set features some of Duterte's more precisely composed and layered mixes. The project also captures Duterte at her most self-interrogative. If the singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and producer has erstwhile projected a DIY/loner vibe, Belong is more about investing in those connections and social spaces that are empowering. The synthy and reverb-splashed "Cards...
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Fatal Optimist
Madi Diaz
Songwriter Madi Diaz’s third record and final entry in what may be considered her heartache trilogy is a piece she considers her rawest yet. Fatal Optimist comes in the wake of a serious relationship ending. Diaz purposefully spent more time alone, sitting with the heartbreak, allowing for a more stripped-back approach and confessional tone to emerge in her music. Getting the album just right was more of a process than it initially appeared....
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