Alpha Games is the sound of a band trying to reignite its original sense of passion and intensity, to diminished…
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Max Freedman
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Max Freedman is a Philly-based writer with bylines in Pitchfork, MTV News, GQ, The Creative Independent, and, of course, The A.V. Club. Ask him about vegan brownies, 'Homogenic,' and Beach House.
No artist—not even Portishead itself—has tried to re-encapsulate the album's allure, but its influence is heard…
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The Philly-via-Vegas musician (and Tuca & Bertie voice actor) is at his best when he’s confrontational
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Here are the ballots submitted by the 11 critics who determined The A.V. Club's best albums of the past year
The simultaneous release of Alejandra Ghersi’s four new albums—that’s 47 songs, two and a half hours of music—blends…
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Yes, it’s been a hard year, and yes, we’re also tired of confronting that fact. But the bizarrely repetitive and…
The A.V. Club’s list of 2020’s best albums was determined by 10 critics, who each submitted a ranked ballot of their…
Moses Sumney is nothing if not ambitious. After two modest EPs of bare-bones home recordings, he delivered a debut…
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In 2010, the notion of a small-time, Beatles-esque psychedelic project growing into a global festival headliner may…
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There’s a lot of music out there. To help you cut through all the noise, every week The A.V. Club is rounding up A-Si…
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Just six months into a great year in music, we’ve seen strange, galactic records from R&B innovators Solange and…
There’s a lot of music out there. To help you cut through all the noise, every week The A.V. Club is rounding up A-Si…
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There’s a lot of music out there. To help you cut through all the noise, every week The A.V. Club is rounding up A-Si…
There’s a lot of music out there. To help you cut through all the noise, every week The A.V. Club is rounding up A-Si…
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