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Brandon Flowers  Thrasher

The Killers frontman does a solid job channeling his Nashville heroes on Thrasher, but the mystery train doesn’t always stay on track Rolling Stone

Julia Holter  Materia

As a companion to Something, it’s a pleasant listen that still shows just how inventive Holter can be as a composer Far Out

Julia Holter  Materia

Materia might be only 7-tracks long but it’s a transformative experience for the listener in how music doesn’t have to be completely brand new but can be recycled and reshaped God Is In The TV

Julia Holter  Materia

This companion piece to Something In The Room She Moves epitomises the Los Angelino's duality of fluidity and restlessness musicOMH

Julia Holter  Materia

A wonderful testament to following ideas and feelings wherever they lead All Music

Julia Holter  Materia

Experimental composer Julia Holter returns to 2024's Something in the Room She Moves to tend to some unfinished business The Skinny

Julia Holter  Materia

Compelling even when she isn't trying that hard. Print edition only Mojo

Julia Holter  Materia

Holter plays with time throughout, from the electro-ambient dream "Clepsydra" (named after the ancient water clock) to the 10-minute standout "My Twin". Print edition only Uncut

Julia Holter  Materia

The art-pop artist’s latest album, a companion piece to 2024’s Something in the Room She Moves, moves from calming chaos to stirring minimalism Paste Magazine

Julia Holter  Materia

Rather than pushing every composition toward some big payoff, Holter enjoys the silence Slant Magazine

Lambchop  Punching The Clown

Kurt Wagner reinvents his band yet again, this time slimming down to a bare-bones acoustic setup and stripping away the studio artifice. But his storytelling remains as expansive as ever Pitchfork

Brandon Flowers  Thrasher

With Waylon Jennings’ drawl and a profound sincerity, the Killers frontman sells the blustery, Nashville-via-Utah sound of his gaudy but affecting new country album Pitchfork

L’Rain  fata morgana

fata morgana never quite lets its feelings settle into one shape. A song can be funny until it isn’t, intimate until it becomes abrasive, beautiful until another layer of sound threatens to swallow it whole Northern Transmissions

L’Rain  fata morgana

Closing a quadrilogy that began with her 2017 self-titled debut, L'Rain’s latest is built almost entirely from things slippery enough to avoid efforts to define them Spectrum Culture

L’Rain  fata morgana

While her arc culminates somewhat open-endedly, Cheek’s fluid inner world is always fascinating to behold No Ripcord