Review: Ancient Ocean – Blood Moon

Review: Ancient Ocean – Blood Moon
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Ancient Ocean  Blood Moon  Beyond Beyond is Beyond Street: 06.30 Ancient Ocean = Sigur Rós + Deuter Ancient Ocean’s latest release is a meditative album that takes you on a journey through space and sound. It’s an impressive collection, to say the least. I loved listening to this album in the midst of a spring

Review: Cuushe – Night Lines EP

Review: Cuushe – Night Lines EP
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Cuushe Night Lines EP Cascine Street: 04.07 Cuushe = Supreme Cuts + Populous + oOOoOO Shaking off the murky, noisy and wandering tangles of earlier works and slipping into a suit of dark, rhythmic clarity, Kyoto-native Cuushe presents her four-track EP Night Lines. She keeps with her trippy, experimental foundations, but the addition of faster

Review: Full Scale Riot – Depopulation

Review: Full Scale Riot – Depopulation
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Full Scale Riot Depopulation Riot Records Street: 02.08 Full Scale Riot = Bane + Vision of Disorder + Burn Armed with an old school hardcore sound and an arsenal of politically themed lyrics, these NJHC heavyweights tear it up with this torrential EP. Hailing from New Jersey—home to hardcore giants like Vision and Mouthpiece—FSR discernibly

Review: Shampoo Boy – Crack

Review: Shampoo Boy – Crack
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Shampoo Boy = Head Dress + Ben Frost + Barn Owl … read more

Review: Jon DeRosa – Black Halo

Review: Jon DeRosa – Black Halo
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Jon DeRosa Black Halo Rocket Girl Street: 05.25 Jon DeRosa = Jens Lekman + The Magnetic Fields + Beat Happening When I listened through this record a time or two, generally enjoying the 1950s pop of Buddy Holly and Roy Orbison filtered through the skewed lens of Stephin Merritt’s fey, minor-chord subversiveness, I had to