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AFI
Silver Bleeds the Black Sun...
What makes Silver Bleeds The Black Sun… work is the confidence with which AFI have gone all in, slipping the bonds of expectation once and for all and cutting loose
Kerrang!
AFI
Silver Bleeds the Black Sun...
Pushing the quartet onto yet another exciting path of artistic and creative evolution, Silver Bleeds the Black Sun is a fully committed, thematic foray into the darker corners of the AFI experience
All Music
Taylor Swift
The Life of a Showgirl
A victim of its own preamble
DIY
Idlewild
Idlewild
If you decide to pair playing this and then looking back at their early LPs, there is a sudden realisation of how underappreciated, en masse, Idlewild are
God Is In The TV
Sprints
All That Is Over
With a nod to turning personal turmoil into art, All That Is Over is an unvarnished, sometimes exhilarating look at the anxieties that plague a world in flux and is a solid addition to their catalog even if it doesn’t push their sound into entirely new territory
Under The Radar
Tune-Yards
Better Dreaming
Tune-Yards’ lyrics range from wanting us to dream better dreams to sucker punching authority. Better Dreaming’s songs are dream-like more than propagandistic
PopMatters
Taylor Swift
The Life of a Showgirl
Guaranteed to be one of the year’s biggest pop records, the follow-up to The Tortured Poets Department nevertheless sounds like an artist on autopilot
musicOMH
Snõõper
Worldwide
Snooper are having a laugh, but you can tell they’re serious
God Is In The TV
Snõõper
Worldwide
Worldwide is everything that a great rock album should be: chaotic, adrenaline-pumping, and infectious, but crucially, it isn’t pretending to be anything that it isn’t. For that, the Nashville group should be lauded among the most exciting rock and roll outfits out there at the moment
Far Out
Snõõper
Worldwide
Snooper’s vision of egg punk is more hygienic; the full experience is still reserved for the stage. They’ve fantastically magnified a glimpse of that for larger crowds, but in the studio, Snooper aren’t as wild as we thought they were
The Line Of Best Fit
Snõõper
Worldwide
The Nashville punk band shifts into high gear, expelling pent-up energy through warped instruments and tantalizing beats
Paste Magazine
Snõõper
Worldwide
Snooper might not be having fun on Worldwide, but they make alienation served with an absurdist wink sound more entertaining than it has in some time
All Music
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