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Mount Eerie
Night Palace
Night Palace could easily be defined as Elverum’s wisest release. It contains the breadth of a career and of a life spent in dedication to compatible wavelengths, of sounds in the new.
The Line Of Best Fit
Mount Eerie
Night Palace
The album defies easy categorization, which ultimately offers a welcome challenge
Slant Magazine
Mount Eerie
Night Palace
Phil Elverum has long been the master of flowing journeys into the mind’s eye, and with Night Palace, a record of such substance that it takes a few listens to really make sense he’s produced one of his best yet
Far Out
Fionn Regan
O AVALANCHE
Realistically, this album can only ever be consumed as one, as very few tracks are individual enough to be enjoyed in isolation. Instead, this record is one large piece of emotive sound, which is great to listen to but exists in its best form in the confines of the record
Far Out
Fionn Regan
O AVALANCHE
The Co Wicklow musician’s seventh album is simply a beautiful piece of work
The Irish Times
Fionn Regan
O AVALANCHE
A little bit of beautifully bottled unshine, designed to keep the winter blues far away
musicOMH
Fionn Regan
O AVALANCHE
It’s cinematic and magical and stands as some of Fionn’s most captivating and compelling work to date
Clash
Tyler, The Creator
Chromakopia
An uncompromising honesty lies within this snapshot of an artist willing to share his chaos
musicOMH
The Cure
Songs Of A Lost World
Sixteen years after their last album, Robert Smith & co. return at their own glacial pace. Sounding regal, weary, and deliciously slow, they grapple with mortality and doubt as only they could
Pitchfork
Soccer Mommy
Evergreen
Sophie Allison’s fourth album is steeped in a loneliness darker than that of her youth, pairing raw reflections on grief with the most laid-back, pastoral music of her career
Pitchfork
Tyler, The Creator
Chromakopia
On his seventh album, Tyler is both mask-on and mask-off. It’s an electric, revealing, and perennially odd journey back into his aging psyche
Pitchfork
Soccer Mommy
Evergreen
Soccer Mommy wrestles with profound loss on her new record, which is more organic and grander than anything she has released before
PopMatters
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