Deerhunter’s excellent new album, Why Hasn’t Everything Already Disappeared?, is the closest the long-running Atlanta band has ever come to an outright pop LP. Highlights like “What Happens To People?” and “Futurism” revel in their smooth edges and sophisticated arrangements, and the album as a whole has an appealing sleekness, …
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Vox Luxmakes for polarizing viewing. The film — whichstars Natalie Portman as an empty, narcissistic pop star — isvisual candy peppered with uncomfortable extended sequences of visceral violence that fails to capture the wicked majesty of pop and its stars in the way it thinks it does. Yet, for a …
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Ryley Walker is a fluid guitar player whose songs rarely take you in any expected direction and a proud torch-bearer for the vaunted croon-through-your-beard school of indie-rock singer-songwriters.His very fine 2018 LP Deafman Glance is definitely worth your time, setting warmly abstruse mumblings to delicate avant-woodsy guitar magic, updating the …
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