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OMBIIGIZI, ‘Sewn Back Together’ — 4/5 stars

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Alex Braun
OMBIIGIZI, a new collaborative project from artists Zoon and Status/Non-Status, is about searching. Sewn Back Together, as the title implies, establishes that the pair has been broken apart somehow, left looking for their place...
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Basia Bulat, ‘The Garden’ — 3.5/5 stars

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Alex Braun
Basia Bulat, like many of us, spent the pandemic slowing down. She describes spending time in the garden, putting down roots and waiting for melodies and songs from her past to come back to...
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Sam Weber, ‘Get Free’ — 3.5/5 stars

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Alex Braun
Sam Weber, a Canadian-born, newly minted Angeleno, follows in a long line of SoCal folk-rockers. Echoes from Laurel Canyon resonate in his music: the sound of transplants from across the continent, like Neil Young...
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Ghostly Kisses, ‘Heaven, Wait’ — 3.5/5 stars

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Alex Braun
Ghostly Kisses’s work is overflowing with restraint. Singer-songwriter Margaux Sauvé and her partner Louis-Étienne Santais recorded her debut full-length Heaven, Wait largely at home, and the music reflects this with a whispery intimacy.
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Chastity, ‘Suffer Summer’ — 4.5/5 stars

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Alex Braun
Suffer Summer is an album largely about happiness, but one that looks from the outside of happiness, wondering why it’s just out of reach.
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Ruby Singh, ‘Vox.Infold’ — 4/5 stars

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Alex Braun
Ruby Singh’s new album, Vox.Infold, is a truly immersive, exciting experience. With lofty ideas, wildly experimental composition, intricate mixing and unexpected digital processing, Singh has crafted something fresh and vital.
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Beverly Glenn-Copeland, ‘Keyboard Fantasies Reimagined’ — 4/5 stars

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Alex Braun
Since being dug up from the crates, Keyboard Fantasies has been endlessly namechecked and lauded by contemporary tastemakers. This late-in-the-game rediscovery of Copeland’s spectral, spiritual music has now produced a full album of covers...
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