Bright Eyes: Five Dice, All Threes [Album Review]
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Alien Nosejob: Turns The Colour of Bad Shit [Album Review]
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Jon Spencer: Sick Of Being Sick! [Album Review]
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Andrew Bird Trio: Sunday Morning Put-On [Album Review]
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Kal Marks: Wasteland Baby [Album Review]
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Pale Jay: Low End Love Songs [Album Review]
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Nada Surf: Moon Mirror [Album Review]
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Cursive: Devourer [Album Review]
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Ty Segall: Love Rudiments [Album Review]
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Spirit Of The Beehive: You’ll Have To Lose Something [Album Review]
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MJ Lenderman: Manning Fireworks [Album Review]
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Peel Dream Magazine: Rose Main Reading Room [Album Review]
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GIFT: Illuminator [Album Review]
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Chime School: The Boy Who Ran the Paisley Hotel [Album Review]
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Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds: Wild God [Album Review]
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Ex Pilots: Motel Cable [Album Review]
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The Bug Club: On The Intricate Inner Workings Of The System [Album Review]
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Fake Fruit: Mucho Mistrust [Album Review]
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Kishi Bashi: Kantos [Album Review]
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Fontaines D.C.: Romance [Album Review]
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Thee Heart Tones: Forever & Ever [Album Review]
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Velocity Girl: UltraCopacetic (Copacetic Remixed And Expanded) [Classic Album Revisit]
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Straight Arrows: Surface World [Album Review]
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Horse Jumper Of Love: Disaster Trick [Album Review]
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Father John Misty: Greatish Hits – I Followed My Dreams and My Dreams Said to Crawl [Album Review]
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