The album’s title is literal and too modest: Treee has been putting in work.
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With Mightmare’s ‘Cruel Liars,’ a Familiar Twang Is Swapped for Adventurous New Textures
Cruel Liars—the eight-track debut from Mightmare—may prove itself to be one of the most rewarding, revealing new sides of Sarah Shook’s personality, both musical and otherwise.
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Jphono1’s ‘Low Key Companion’ Explores the Human Feedback between What We Perceive and What We Feel
Our space shapes our thoughts. Our thoughts change how we experience our space. And ‘Low Key Companion’ gets a lot of mileage out of probing the in-between.
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Packed with Subtly Brilliant Musical Moments, ‘Dust’ Finds the Dead Tongues at Its Most Adventurous
‘Dust’ traverses a universal struggle to belong—and to find the balance between the person you were and the person you’ve become.
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Tragic Assembly’s ‘Instability’ Brims with Transparency and Clarity
Most thrilling is the more understated flavor of free jazz, the kind that foregrounds melody and texture and the full range of instrumental timbres. Tragic Assembly makes that kind of free jazz on its debut album.
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Steel Pulse Puts on a Conscious Party at UNC-Wilmington’s Kenan Auditorium
From the band’s first note, I didn’t write another sentence. I was too busy groovin’ in the aisles.
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On ‘Breakthroughs in End Theory,’ Will Brooks Finds Liminal Spaces between Sound, Image, and Improvisation
Each song documents an aural response to a multisensory experience, exposing the interpretative gaps, contingencies, and near equivalencies that exist between sense and reason.
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Django Haskins’ Songs Highlight the Ease and Existential Doubt of Everyday Living
Recorded just before the pandemic, the twin EPs packs a wistful punch, marrying melancholy with merriment.
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Quetico’s ‘Know You Are’ Is a Voyage through the Grooviest, Most Sensuous Parts of Throwback FM Radio
The songs are lush but run so clear that their challenging time signatures often hardly even register—they’re more special sauce than the main course, this time.
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Superchunk’s ‘Wild Loneliness’ Is Supremely Suited for Its Moment
The band has never been better—or better for its time.