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ALBUM REVIEW: L.S. Dunes – ‘Violet’

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  • Posted on January 28, 2025January 28, 2025

The key draw of L.S. Dunes continues to be the names involved, now that they’re up to their second album of emo that, most commonly, is just adequate.

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REVIEW ROUND-UP: DIIV, Defects, Graywave

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  • Posted on May 23, 2024May 23, 2024

In this Review Round-Up, shoegaze and atmospherics find respective plateaus and peaks from DIIV and Graywave, broken up by a solid metalcore effort from Defects.

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ALBUM REVIEW: Taking Back Sunday – ‘152’

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  • Posted on October 24, 2023October 24, 2023

A deviation towards lighter, cleaner indie feels resultant of an older Taking Back Sunday, but the glimmers of their usual greatness still shine through.

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ALBUM REVIEW: L.S. Dunes – ‘Past Lives’

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  • Posted on November 7, 2022November 7, 2022

With members of My Chemical Romance, Circa Survive, Coheed And Cambria and Thursday in tow, L.S. Dunes arrive with ample hallmarks of supergroup superstardom for their debut.

It’s okay.

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REVIEW ROUND-UP: Deafheaven, Trash Boat, Between The Buried And Me, Press To MECO

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  • Posted on August 18, 2021August 18, 2021

In this Review Round-Up, Trash Boat and Press To MECO deliver some of the best of the year with Deafheaven and Between The Buried And Me not far behind, while Meet Me @ The Altar hit their heights among Strange Bones, LiL Lotus, Switchfoot, Luke Hemmings, Villagers, Afterlife and Insurgent.

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REVIEW ROUND-UP: The Killers, The Front Bottoms, blackbear

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  • Posted on August 26, 2020December 5, 2020

In this Review Round-Up, the entire gamut of quality is ran from great to outright terrible, by new albums from The Killers, The Front Bottoms, blackbear, Seether, Narrow Head, WACO, CLT DRP and Lucy Feliz

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Even on a loose, shambling collection of offcuts from previous sessions, BIG SPECIAL are so inherently creative and compelling that they still manage to net an overall win.

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