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Album Reviews

TANKENGINE: TANKENGINE TANKENGINE TANKENGINE EP

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Post date September 28, 2022
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TANKENGINE (photo credit: via the artist's Bandcamp page)

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Tension Span: The Future Died Yesterday

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Post date September 27, 2022
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Tension Span (photo credit: Jorin Bukosky)

Tags Asunder, Chat Pile, Christ on Parade, Dystopia, Geoff Evans, Kicker, Lingua Ignota, Matt Parrillo, Motorhead, Neurosis, Neurot Recordings, Noah Landis, Rebellion, Tension SPan, Total Control, Wire

Album Reviews Opinion

Ultimate Reset: The Return of The Mars Volta

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Post date September 26, 2022
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The Mars Volta (photo credit: Fat Bob)

Album Reviews

Suede: Autofiction

Suede (photo credit: Dean Chakley)

Tags Blur, BMG, Brett Anderson, Manic Street Preachers, Mat Osman, Neil Codling, oasis, Richard Oaks, Simon Gilbert, Suede, the charlatans

Album Reviews

Erik Buschmann: Blue Spells

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Post date September 22, 2022
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Erik Buschmann

Tags Boards of Canada, Erik Buschmann, HVOB, John McEntire, John Talabot, Jon Hopkins, Klangstof, Luka, Modera, Ordos. Mk.0, Reflektor Records, Sam Prekop, T. Gowdy, Thom Yorke, Ty Lumnus, Whirling Hall of Knives

Features Interviews

Charlie Butler Interview: “Outside of music, comics and books are my biggest influences”

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Post date September 21, 2022
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Charlie Butler

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No Age: People Helping People

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Post date September 20, 2022
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No Age (photo credit: Benjamin Clark)

Tags Dean Spunt, Drag City, John Wiese, No Age, Randy Randall

Album Reviews

Puppies in the Sun: Light Became Light

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Post date September 18, 2022
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Puppies in the Sun (photo credit: Cristobal Pereira)

Tags Alberto Cendra, Buh Records, Cristóbal Pereira, El Purgatorio, Föllakzoid, Nadja, Oscar Moreno, Puppies in the Sun, Some Became Hollow Tubes

Album Reviews

Nadja: Labyrinthine

Nadja (photo credit: Janina Gallert)

Album Reviews

Matt Christensen & P.M. Tummala: Yellow Works

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Post date September 14, 2022
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P.M. Tummala & Matt Christensen

Tags Matt Christensen, Monastral, P.M. Tummala, Zelienople

13 Questions

13 Questions with Dune Boy

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Post date September 13, 2022
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Dune Boy

Tags Cass McCombs, Dune Boy, Fresh Pepper, Paul Rafferty, Sebastian Westwood, Stephen Kerrison

Album Reviews

Oneida: Success

Oneida (photo credit: via the artist's Facebook page)

Tags dirty three, Joyful Noise Recordings, Mission of Burma, Oneida, Sonic Youth, Wooden Shjips

Features Interviews

Polexia! Interview: “We actually have an eerily similar taste in music”

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Post date September 9, 2022
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Polexia! (photo credit: Claire Welles)

Tags cocteau twins, Cosey Fanni Tutti, Godflesh, Jezebel Halewood-Legas, Johanna Connolly, Justin Broadrick, Krzystof Penderecki, Kylie Minouge, Lene lovich, Lizzie Mercier Descloux, Nina Hagen and Malaria, Outsider Art, Polexia!, SPINE, Susan Janet Ballion

Singles

Track Premiere: Bobhowla’s ‘Tainted’

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Post date September 8, 2022
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Bobhowla (photo credit: Warren Millar)

Tags Amanda Clark-Price, B.C. Camplight, Bobhowla, Daniel Woodward, Howard Doupe, John Brindle, joy division, The War On Drugs, Whitewood Studios

Album Reviews

Sarah Davachi: Two Sisters

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Post date September 7, 2022
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Sarah Davachi (photo credit: Sean McCann)

Tags Julianna Barwick, La Monte Young, Late Music, Sarah Davachi, Terry Riley

13 Questions

13 Questions with Puzzle

Puzzle (photo credit: via the artist's Bandcamp page).

Tags Adam Rutherford, Art of Fighting, Brit Bennett, Chris McIntosh, Defend Vinyl, Down and Outs, Duplo, Fugazi, Gersey, Graham Jones, Love of Diagrams, Love Outside Andromeda, Lucy Johnson, Paul Rafferty, Post Archive, Puzzle, Raise Hell, Tim Krabbe

Features Interviews News

Video Premiere: Head Shoppe’s ‘Chapultepec Parque’

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Post date September 5, 2022
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Head Shoppe (photo provided by artist)

Tags Eric Harding, Head Shoppe, Kenneth James Gibson, Panda Bear, Sonic Boom, Studio Sparks

Albums Features

Sun 13’s Albums Quarterly #7

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Post date September 2, 2022
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Albums Quarterly (original images sourced from respective artists' Bandcamp pages).

Album Reviews

Tropical Fuck Storm: Moonburn EP

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Post date September 1, 2022
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Tropical Fuck Storm (photo credit: via the artist's Facebook page)

Tags Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy, Chris Abrahams, Erica Dunn, Fiona Kitschin, Gareth Liddiard, Iggy Pop, Jim White, Joyful Noise Recordings, King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard, Lauren Hammel, Primavera Sound, Springtime, Talking Heads, The Stooges, Tropical Fuck Storm

Album Reviews

Daniel McClennan: Unfurling Redemption

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Post date August 31, 2022
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Daniel McLennan - Unfurling Redemption

Tags Cruel Nature Records, Daniel McClennan, Liz Harris, Max Richter, Philip K. Dick, The Caretaker, Tim Hecker, Why Patterns