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![Review: Mdou Moctar – Funeral For Justice](https://www.slugmag.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/Mdou-Moctar-1024x1024.webp)
Review: Mdou Moctar – Funeral For Justice
Mdou Moctar is part of a modern recreation of the Assouf genre that embraces many more elements of American classic rock. … read more
![Review: Taylor Swift – The Tortured Poets Department](https://www.slugmag.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/The-Anthology_Cover-1024x1024.webp)
Review: Taylor Swift – The Tortured Poets Department
The collection of songs, the messiness, the moments where it hits and the moments where it doesn’t, it’s all for the most tortured poet of all: Taylor Swift. … read more
![Review: Maggie Rogers – Don’t Forget Me](https://www.slugmag.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/426-ED-LMR-Maggie-Rogers-1024x1024.webp)
Review: Maggie Rogers – Don’t Forget Me
Even though Maggie Rogers was discovered by artist Pharell in 2016 at New York University in 2016, in her 8 years since in the music industry: she’s made a name for herself. … read more
![Review: Castle Rat – Into the Realm](https://www.slugmag.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/a3777746450_65.webp)
Review: Castle Rat – Into the Realm
Dark forces, brutal battle tactics, the patina of grimey dread and fierce snarls—all were possible for this quartet’s viscous sludge of rocking calamity. … read more
![Review: Machine Girl – SUPER FREQ](https://www.slugmag.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/SLUGRVW_MG_SF.webp)
Review: Machine Girl – SUPER FREQ
Ultimately, this is a solid project, and I hope that we’re getting a decadent taste of what the duo has in store for their next full length studio album. … read more
![Review: Jazmin Bean – Traumatic Livelihood](https://www.slugmag.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/JB_TL_SLUG-1024x1024.webp)
Review: Jazmin Bean – Traumatic Livelihood
Traumatic Livelihood represents the blackened eye that time may heal physically, but the emotional wear-and-tear will always remain. … read more
![Review: Bleachers – Bleachers](https://www.slugmag.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/Bleachers-1024x1024.webp)
Review: Bleachers – Bleachers
Vocals shine throughout the album, but particularly on “Call Me After Midnight.” … read more
![Review: Ashes Fallen – Walk Through Fire](https://www.slugmag.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/SLUG-2023-ashes-fallen-1024x1024.webp)
Review: Ashes Fallen – Walk Through Fire
California-based gothic rock band Ashes Fallen not only satisfies those that like darker post-punk styles of music, but it transcends genres and dips into both EBM and rock. … read more
![Review: Holly Humberstone – Paint My Bedroom Black](https://www.slugmag.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/SLUG-music-2023-holly-humberstone-paint-my-bedroom-black-high-res-1024x1024.webp)
Review: Holly Humberstone – Paint My Bedroom Black
Paint My Bedroom Black is an album from someone who is self-assured, creative and most of all a lover of music. Humberstone is well aware of the weight and solace music can provide. … read more
![Review: Lewis Capaldi – Broken By Desire To Be Heavenly Sent](https://www.slugmag.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/lewis-capaldi-album-review-1024x1024.webp)
Review: Lewis Capaldi – Broken By Desire To Be Heavenly...
Lewis Capaldi = Dermot Kennedy x Niall Horan … read more