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NEW Freak Slug - I Blow Out Big Candles | Reviews | Clash Magazine Music ... | Clash Magazine
Reviews. 05 · 11 · 2024. Entering the pantheon of brilliant yet ridiculously named recent groups is up-and-comer Freak Slug. The project of Manchester multi-disciplinary artist Xenya Genovese, this ten-track debut sees the artist confidently use the palette of 90s cult acts to create a hazy vibe to explore. With the past few years spent ...
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Thank – I Have A Physical Body That Can Be Harmed | Clash Magazine | Nov. 5, 2024, 3:23 p.m.
Earlier this year, Leeds band Thank signed to the independent record label Big Scary Monsters. They now release their second album ‘I Have A Physical Body That Can Be Harmed’. It’s a brash, satirical and stomping collection of songs, with lead vocalist Freddy Vinehill-Cliffe shifting between singing, shouting, speaking and screaming.
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Freddie Gibbs – You Only Die 1nce | Reviews | Clash Magazine Music News ... | Clash Magazine | Nov. 1, 2024, 9:31 a.m.
It’s a crisp run-time – 13 tracks, with one interlude, and a mere 37 minutes of music – but ‘You Only Die 1nce’ leaves its mark. Closer ‘On The Set’ goes for the jugular – the dark-edged production redolent of his work with Madlib, the world-building providing the perfect foil for Freddie Gibbs’ hard-won truths.
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Lil Uzi Vert – Eternal Atake 2 | Reviews | Clash Magazine Music News ... | Clash Magazine | Nov. 1, 2024, 12:17 p.m.
The lyrics of ‘Conceited’ jar given the accusations around him, and while ‘Eternal Atake 2’ may be content to live in 2020, the rest of the rap world has moved on. Although far from terrible, ‘Eternal Atake 2’ seems to exhibit more signs of the Lil Uzi Vert tail-off – the quality control has dimmed, and the sense of direction ...
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“We’re A Guinea Pig Generation!” Noahfinnce Speaks Out | Clash Magazine
Belonging to a generation of creatives who has only known digital, Noah Finn Adams’ engagement with the internet is so embedded in who he is as a person, how he lives life, that he took the decision to name the new debut album after it.
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Berhana Professes His Devotion On ‘Break Bread’ | Clash Magazine
On new album ‘Amén’, Berhana explores the tendrils of love and identity. Leaning into his Ethiopian roots, the album merges traditional East African instrumentation with diaristic storytelling and Berhana’s already established lithe future-soul experiments.
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Iceage’s Elias Rønnenfelt Announces Solo Album ‘Heavy Glory’ | Clash Magazine
Iceage musician Elias Rønnenfelt will release new solo album ‘Heavy Glory’ on October 25th. The record has its roots in the strange Spring of 2022, a period when the pandemic seemed to be receding, but people didn’t quite have confidence to interact.
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PIXIES - The Night The Zombies Came | Reviews | Clash Magazine Music ... | Clash Magazine | Oct. 25, 2024, 10:09 a.m.
Boasting thirteen tracks, ‘The Night the Zombies Came’, the band’s tenth, flows like a cinematic adaptation of a Gothic novel with its palpable storytelling tinted with dark mysticism. ‘Primrose’ and ‘Mercy Me’ fall into the band’s self-described category of ‘Dust Bowl Songs’, a modern take on the country ballads once ...