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Abstract Crimewave and Josh Phillips Reviewed

Abstract Crimewave x Lykke Li – The Gambler Style will get you plenty of places. There are folks everywhere crying out for a bit of it, standing in line to take pictures, getting their pens ready for an autograph for a star who can convince that the world is…
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Sonja Midtune and Niño Fantasma Reviewed

Sonja Midtune – Falling UP The record stores (few that still exist) have all but given up on a genre-based system of sorting music out. They’ll just do it alphabetically. They’ll just highlight a couple of the records that they know the vast majority of people…
8.0
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Clan Kangrejo and KACIMI Reviewed

Clan Kangrejo – El Significado Oh, you’d better get ready for a new Latin Boom, one of rock music! I’m certain that it’s coming! You see, pop culture trends are just like empires. Sure, they do rise and inevitably fall. But in order for them to reach their…
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Santana's 10 Best Songs

Carlos Santana wasn’t the first guitar virtuoso. But of all of them, bar, perhaps, Jimmy Page, he was the only one who seemed to have been brought to the world by some magical voodoo ritual. Of course, Santana was also a group first, one that played dramatic, epic…
8.0
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Chac Xol and Who Killed James Reviewed

Chac Xol – Nopal “It’s not all about money, you know?” That might be the phrase you whisper to yourself the next time you decide where to go on holiday. Your next step might just be to do a deep dive into what some of the richest places in the world actually…
8.0
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Pablo Naranjo and Lucifer Sunshine Reviewed

Pablo Naranjo – El Ultimo Hombre How much of the world should you see if you get the chance? Every inch of it. Do it if you can, not because you hope that remarkable secrets will be given to you. Do it, first and foremost, because it will erase some of the…
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Superfónicos and Photay Reviewed

Superfónicos – Renaceré The people who have everything are the most likely to lose it all. Those who have nothing not only have to acquire what it is that they need but also, if they’ve acquired the wisdom for it, periodically shed away some of the weight of…