On Thunderpussy’s self-titled debut, the band revitalizes dormant rock music style
The band plays its heart out on the record but it hardly reinvents rock — it simply revitalizes the dormant intensity of the genre.
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Father John Misty bares all in new album ‘God’s Favorite Customer’
On God’s Favorite Customer, Tillman is naked, showing us every one of his flaws dauntlessly. Listening to the album is like reading his diary.
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Clairo’s ‘diary 001’ falls back on overfamiliar sounds
If the album’s title is to be believed, to Clairo this EP serves as little more than a reference point, an introduction, the first part of something, with perhaps many parts yet to come.
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Why Taylor Swift’s ‘Reputation’ says it all right now
Ms. Swift is quite carefully monitored by us narcs at the Clog, and now it’s time for us to get back to our musical roots.
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Mind the Gap
I’ve listened to it from front to back, each minute dragging a volumetric feeling with it, and I don’t need to remember its name to love it.
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Tyler, The Creator softens in ‘Flower Boy’
Packed with punchy synths, a host of grade-A features and lyrics about growth and change … Flower Boy is all about Tyler laying claim to his own softness.
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Paramore introduces new pop paradigm with ‘After Laughter’
Most artists, at some point in their careers, have an epiphany that they need to change and cater to a wider audience, often eliciting angry calls of selling out from die-hard fans. Many groups completely metamorphize from one genre to another, ignoring the grievances of their adorning devotees. Paramore, it
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Why Justin Bieber understands us
Earlier this month, Justin Bieber dropped his new album, Purpose. We at the Clog are addicted and haven’t been able to stop listening to it since it was released. Either you’re just like us and are unapologetically obsessed with it, or you think the album’s just alright (but let’s be real,
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J. Cole gets back to his roots in latest album
J. Cole brings it home in his third studio album, 2014 Forest Hills Drive. Titled after the house he grew up in, the album tells a vulnerable story of adolescence and unfolds like a compilation of journal entries. Cole is born into an oppressive system, learns to measure his self-worth
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Jessie Ware balances elegant classicism with pop aesthetics
Jessie Ware is an anomaly of a pop star. Years older than fellow British soul revivalists and pals Sam Smith and Adele, Ware and her brand of soft, understated R&B is reminiscent of early Mariah Carey and Whitney Houston — golden icons whose hits were executed with equal doses of
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