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Five Songs, 8/8/2023

Hammerhead, "Evil Twin" Hammerhead's initial three-album run with Amphetamine Reptile is probably my favorite on the label, and it's the second and third albums (Into The Vortex and Duh, The Big City) that are the real prizes. The first record is good, but the latter...

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Five Songs, 10/20/2022

U.S. Maple, "Rice Ain't Afraid of Nothing" U.S. Maple more or less perfected devolved rock, where the songs are recognizable as being rock songs, but the form of them is perverted to the straining point. Any more mutated, and it probably ceases to...

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Five Songs, 9/7/2022

Baroness, "Jake Leg" The second Baroness record, Blue Record, seems to my ears like it's a more confident album than the first one. Alongside that confidence is a willingness to make things a little prettier. It's a little more prone to doing stuff that soars...

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Five Songs, 7/20/2022

The Sound Stylistics, "Get Ya Some" From the Mocambo Funk Forty Fives, a comp collecting, uh, funk forty fives from Mocambo Records. The label is a reliable source for this kind of stuff, so this collection is a very fun time. Listen to this, the...