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Not to Disappear
British indie-folk act meditates on unhappiness with intermittently cathartic results
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They Might Be Giants at 33: We're (Still) Here, We're Weird, Get Used to Us
How a pair of misfits reconfigured what it means to be cool and earned one of music's most unique fanbases
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Girls in Peacetime Want to Dance
Scottish indie-pop vets go to the club, stretch a little too far
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Haven’t Got the Blues (Yet)
Loudon Wainwright III's latest album is a long joke, full of wry commentary on weighty topics like mortality and lonesomeness. It opens with the rousing "Brand New Dance," whose curmudgeonly narrator "look[s] into the abyss," and closes with "Last Day of the Year," which starts hopeful, then goes sour. Even straightforward cuts rely on small […]
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After the End
This post-punk crew has been a familiar presence on Florida's DIY scene for years, but on its first release with a bigtime record label, you'd hardly recognize Merchandise as the band that was playing ferocious shows in storage units just a few years back. Crescendoing tracks like "True Monument" sound positively lush – at least […]
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I'm Not Bossy, I'm the Boss
"I wanna be a real, full woman," Sinéad O’Connor sings on "How About I Be Me," whose title references her previous album, 2012’s How About I Be Me (And You Be You?). Unfortunately, O’Connor’s music doesn’t reflect the independence she aspires to: Ten albums into her career, she’s single-mindedly obsessed with the joys and sorrows […]
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Morrissey's Elegant Midlife Crisis: 20 Years of 'Vauxhall and I'
Revisiting the moment when Moz shook off the Smiths for good
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