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The Hidden Awards 2025

This is our first time doing this. No long tradition, no rulebook — just a year of listening, writing, arguing, revisiting, and occasionally changing our minds. The Hidden Awards grew naturally out of what The...

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Closer

By Joy Division

This month marks the 45th anniversary of Joy Division’s second and final album, Closer. Released two months after the untimely passing of frontman Ian Curtis, the gloomy, dark sound unique to them is as powerful...

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Illinois

By Sufjan Stevens

The Great and loved, Sufjan Stevens Sufjan Stevens is one of the most prolific song writers of our time. Few people whom have any inclination towards indie or singer songwriter need an introduction into who he is, but...

A Sober Conversation

By BC Camplight

Today is one of those fortunate days where I get to discover something new and enjoy it deeply. It came in the form of Manchester-based US artist BC Camplight. At first, I got hooked by the music from his latest album A...

The No Comprendo

By Les Rita Mitsouko

Today we’re going to talk about one of the greatest albums to emerge from the French alternative rock scene — by one of the greatest bands in French music history. Okay, I may be biased and overly enthusiastic, but only...

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Pulp is back! A couple of months ago, I got quite excited when I saw that Pulp had finally come around to recording a new album. Since they called it quits a year after their last album — We Love Life — in 2001, nobody...

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Nettles

By Ethel Cain

Ethel Cain so far It wasn’t that long ago since we had last heard from American singer-songwriter Ethel Cain (who’s real name is Hayden Silas Anhedönia). Back in January of this year Hayden released an EP called...

Foo Fighters

By Foo Fighters

It’s been thirty years since Dave Grohl emerged from the ashes of Nirvana and introduced Foo Fighters to the world. Heavy, grungy and a testament to the instrumental ingenuity of Grohl, this album is one of my...