Jun 20, 2017
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The first four songs on Weather Diaries, Ride‘s first album in 21 years, nod to the shoegazing band’s early ‘90s output. Feel-wise and melodically, the intention is there but unfortunately the songs aren’t.
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Jun 19, 2017
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For artists like Lorde who kicked off their career with a legendary record, the anxiety surrounding the sophomore slump is usually there. But Ella Yelich-O’Connor has managed to bypass that notion with the follow-up to her 2013 debut Pure Heroine.
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Jun 19, 2017
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From Noon Till Three is a rare, unique entry into the annals of Western movies, a dark film that’s part comedy, part drama, and one that contains one of Hollywood’s more interesting commentaries on the nature of celebrity and myth-making.
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Jun 19, 2017
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Com Truise
Remember a few decades back when synthesisers took over, heralding the sound of the future? That sound has diluted now, ironically becoming a past artefact modern electronic musicians turn to.
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Jun 16, 2017
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Death stalks Alone in Berlin, which should come as no surprise given it’s an anti-Nazi story unfolding in wartime Berlin.
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Jun 16, 2017
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The Drums
The past has not been smooth sailing for The Drums. What began as a band seems to have reduced to only Jonathan Pierce. A promising start also came unstuck with a move away from the pure indie-pop that brought them to notice in the first place.
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Jun 15, 2017
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Georges Franju’s 1961 film, Spotlight on a Murderer, is an odd little movie.
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Jun 15, 2017
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Priests
Long unavailable except as streams on their Bandcamp page, the Washington D.C. band Priests has fulfilled the demand for the re-release of some of their earliest material by reissuing both of their early cassette releases on a single LP for Record Store Day.
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Jun 14, 2017
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When Japanese filmmaker Yasujirō Ozu released 1959’s Good Morning, it was the beginning of the final chapter of his life.
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Jun 14, 2017
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When Fleet Foxes first appeared on the music scene, it was like they’d walked out of their own time and space and arrived in 2008 fully formed.
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