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Heavy Moss: Dead Slow [Album Review]
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Michael Kiwanuka: Small Changes [Album Review]
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Kim Deal: Nobody Loves You More [Album Review]
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Father John Misty: Mahashmashana [Album Review]
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Alvilda: C’est Déjà L’heure [Album Review]
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Andrew Gabbard: Ramble & Rave On! [Album Review]
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Wussy: Cincinnati Ohio [Album Review]
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Thee Sacred Souls: Got A Story To Tell [Album Review]
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Sharp Pins: Radio DDR [Album Review]
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Moon Goons: Lady Of Many Faces [Album Review]
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Mount Eerie: Night Palace [Album Review]
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Tess Parks: Pomegranate [Album Review]
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The Cure: Songs Of A Lost World [Album Review]
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The Smashing Times: Mrs. Ladyships And The Cleanerhouse Boys [Album Review]
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THUS LOVE: All Pleasure [Album Review]
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Pipe-eye: Pipe-defy [Album Review]
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The Belair Lip Bombs: Lush Life [Album Review]
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2nd Grade: Scheduled Explosions [Album Review]
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Amyl And The Sniffers: Cartoon Darkness [Album Review]
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Shower Curtain: words from a wishing well [Album Review]
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Karate: Make It Fit [Album Review]
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Porridge Radio: Clouds In The Sky They Will Always Be There For Me [Album Review]
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Japandroids: Fate & Alcohol [Album Review]
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CLASS: A Healthy Alternative [Album Review]
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Kelly Finnigan: A Lover Was Born [Album Review]
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DOOM GONG: DOOM GONG [Album Review]
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GOAT: GOAT [Album Review]
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The Linda Lindas: No Obligation [Album Review]
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Blue Zero: Colder Shade Blue [Album Review]
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Wild Pink: Dulling The Horns [Album Review]
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Maxïmo Park: Stream Of Life [Album Review]
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Ulna: Gazebo [Album Review]
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Trace Mountains: Into The Burning Blue [Album Review]
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Geordie Greep: The New Sound [Album Review]
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The Hard Quartet: The Hard Quartet [Album Review]
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The Smile: Cutouts [Album Review]
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Merce Lemon: Watch Me Drive Them Dogs Wild [Album Review]
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Duster: In Dreams [Album Review]
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Galaxie 500: Uncollected Noise New York ’88-’90 [Album Review]
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Being Dead: EELS [Album Review]
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The Black Pacific: Here Comes Our Wave [Album Review]
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John Davis: JINX [Album Review]
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Dale Crover: Glossolalia [Album Review]
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Louse: Passions Like Tar [Album Review]
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julie: my anti-aircraft friend [Album Review]
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Surf Trash: The Only Place I Know [Album Review]
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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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Oso Oso: Life Till Bones [Album Review]
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Endless Valley: Kaskashir [Album Review]
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King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard: Flight b741 [Album Review]
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Osees: SORCS 80 [Album Review]
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Dion Lunadon: Memory Burn (EP) [Album Review]
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Jack White: No Name [Album Review]
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Swami & The Bed Of Nails: All Of This Awaits You [Album Review]
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Personal Trainer: Still Willing [Album Review]
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Robber Robber: Wild Guess [Album Review]
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Various Artists: Collapse The Collectors [Album Review]
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Nightshift: Homosapien [Album Review]
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Ben Seretan: Allora [Album Review]
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Los Campesinos!: All Hell [Album Review]
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Oneida: Expensive Air [Album Review]
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Parlor Greens: In Green / We Dream [Album Review]
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GUM / Ambrose Kenny-Smith: III Times [Album Review]
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Smug Brothers: Another Bar Behind The Night (EP) [Album Review]
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Chris Cohen: Paint A Room [Album Review]
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Love Fiend: Handle With Care [Album Review]
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ORB: Tailem Bend [Album Review]
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Ian St. George: Emergency Index [Album Review]
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The Drin: Elude The Torch [Album Review]
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Penza Penza: Alto E Primitivo [Album Review]
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Aaron Frazer: Into The Blue [Album Review]
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The Folk Implosion: Walk Thru Me [Album Review]
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Redd Kross: Redd Kross [Album Review]
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David Payne: Last Call At The Yellow Horse Saloon [Album Review]
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Guided By Voices: Strut Of Kings [Album Review]
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Hermanos Gutiérrez: Sonido Cósmico [Album Review]
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Hayes Noble: As It Was, As We Were [Album Review]
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Been Stellar: Scream From New York, NY [Album Review]
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Swiftumz: Simply The Best [Album Review]
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The Decemberists: As It Ever Was, So It Will Be Again [Album Review]
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Pedro The Lion: Santa Cruz [Album Review]
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Man Man: Carrot On Strings [Album Review]
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Beak>: >>>> [Album Review]
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Exit Angles: Iterate [Album Review]
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Habibi: Dreamachine [Album Review]
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