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ATLFF Favorites: 'Frogtown' is built like a magic trick
1+ hour, 47+ min ago (550+ words) Read ATLFF Favorites: 'Frogtown' is built like a magic trick" by Delaney Tarr for Saporta Report here....
The kids are not alright and that's OK: Geese's "Getting Killed'
3+ week, 2+ hour ago (1324+ words) Read The kids are not alright and that's OK: Geese's "Getting Killed' by Wendell G. Kensey, Megan Anderson for Saporta Report here. Every young band that breaks through faces the same riddle: what happens after people start paying attention? For Geese,…...
Between boyhood and being: Frank Ocean's Blonde
3+ mon, 1+ week ago (286+ words) Frank Ocean arrived at Blonde the way memory arrives. Unannounced. Slightly out of focus. Already rearranging the furniture. "Inhale, in hell, there's heaven." "Ivy" captures nostalgia in freefall. Guitars shimmer like a summer you didn't know was ending until it…...
Grooving Through the End Times:" Gorillaz" Demon Days
4+ mon, 3+ week ago (908+ words) Damon Albarn has always thrived on friction. In the 1990s, he was a central combatant in the Britpop wars, fronting Blur's art-school mischief versus Oasis' pub-rock bravado. But by decade's end, the spectacle felt small. Blur's shift from Parklife's London cheekiness…...
Ordinary Legends: The Replacements" Let It Be
6+ mon, 3+ week ago (371+ words) The Replacements had already cut three records of spit and vinegar by the time Let It Be dropped in 1984, but this was the moment they vaulted out of the Minneapolis dive bars and into the bloodstream of American rock. Those…...
Wednesday's Bleeds Is a Southern Dusk That Refuses to End
7+ mon, 5+ day ago (380+ words) There's a certain Southern dusk that changes everything. The day's heat fades, the sky bruises purple, and the sounds around you start to carry weight " cicadas, dogs, the creak of a porch swing. That's the hour when Wednesday's Bleeds belongs....
Courtney Barnett's A Sea of Split Peas: Lo-fi charisma and kitchen-table cool
7+ mon, 2+ week ago (235+ words) By the time A Sea of Split Peas was released in 2013, Courtney Barnett was a Melbourne guitarist and songwriter with a knack for making slacker storytelling sound like precision work. Barnett's A Sea of Split Peas isn't exactly an "album…...
Wet Leg's "moisturizer" is art-pop that exfoliates your cynicism
8+ mon, 2+ week ago (496+ words) Similar to their sisters in sentiment if not genre, Wet Leg shares Florry's deadpan vocal style that's less about detachment and more about agency" using restraint as a form of power." They haven't abandoned the sarcasm, side-eye, or sing-song taunts…...
Florry's 'Sounds Like' finds beauty in imperfection
8+ mon, 3+ week ago (235+ words) One of these days you're gonna be amazed." At times, the warmth of the record recalls Brandi Carlile's gift for raw honesty, or the familial, off-the-cuff cohesion of Fleetwood Mac's Tusk. But unlike those albums, Sounds Like" feels more like…...