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A solid debut whose restraint leaves the listener wanting more — in a very good way.

Jorge’s songs pirouette on the edge of an abyss, her delicate voice seemingly quite outmatched by the long, dark night of the soul that she faces.

You’re struck by the thought that perhaps some higher power had always intended for the components to be mashed together.

A vital collection of everything that’s beautiful and evocative in the group’s spooky, forlorn music.

Aerial Days is full of tiny shimmering moments of beauty.

Every single note, melody, and beat on So This Is Goodbye has been streamlined and polished as much as possible.

The self-described “world’s only indie stadium band” deliver an album that’s as bombastic as it is sincere.

I’ve heard most of the songs on here before, countless times. But I had never heard them like this, in such a sublime context.

Richter’s music is perfectly suited to the themes of loss, nostalgia, and alienation that permeate Haruki Murakami’s work.

There’s a rawness and youthful recklessness that never fails to render their music beguiling, even at its loudest and most abrasive.

A tribute to an old computer, the five long tracks that make up this disc are elegiac and gorgeous.

Rough around the edges but still full of lovely textures in which to lose yourself.

Annelle’s songs encapsulate entire tiny little worlds of sound, conjuring up dim images of broken down places and darkened rooms pregnant with memory and longing.

The album’s awkward-yet-earned shortcomings, much like its audio imperfections, only make it more affecting.

A Year to Forget have an energy to them and you can tell that their live shows are probably insane from this release.

Brother, Sister is a perfect encapsulation of everything that’s both good and bad about mewithoutYou’s music.

Repeated listens bear out My Latest Novel’s charms.

Mahogany’s shimmering sounds evoke futuristic metropolises that only seem to exist in sci-fi movies and anime.

Like much of Francesconi’s music, it can leave the listener in a nostalgia-soaked haze.