Modest Mouse’s long-awaited sixth studio album interweaves the crudity of their early recordings and the polish of their recent work into a powerfully eccentric opus.
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Music Review: of Montreal’s “Aureate Gloom”
Recorded in a span of three weeks after the divorce of its front man, Of Montreals’ thirteenth album safely stays within their previously charted sonic territory while often sliding into conceptual schizophrenia.
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Father John Misty’s sophomore release is a startling investigation into the possibility of love enduring in our contemporary, inhospitable social climate.
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On her sophomore album, “The Future’s Void” EMA returns as an oracle from beyond the apocalypse of popular music.
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This year’s iconoclastic Brucennial is about to come to a close. The show, hosted by the anonymous art collective Bruce High Quality Foundation, provides, with over-saturated walls featuring art solely from female artists, a stark and refreshing contrast to the Whitney Biennial uptown. If you haven’t made it there yet, tomorrow will be your last chance.
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