Experimental/Avant-Garde
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The Japanese rap rock group’s album is as dynamic and explosive as its most fame-hungry contemporaries even if it feels overblown in itself.
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Abrasive, catchy, unironic bop all the way through. Charli XCX hits like a diva maestro with her signature avant-pop formula.
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Fifteen years after its release, Divorce Lawyers I Shaved My Head remains Jordaan Mason’s magnum opus for queer folk music.
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Few genres have managed to seize the spirit of the Cold War than Germany’s take on the 1980s’ New Wave with its commercial experiments.
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The Alberta band’s newest album is viscous in its noise as the blizzard that drowns out all sound.
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Simply put, this is one of the greatest love songs of the 1990s.
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With much credit going to its colourful take on prog-rock, the Californian band’s eclectic style is catching lightning in a bottle.
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The Canadian band or artist’s treatise on alienation and teen nostalgia sees its distinct identity and vision match its bouts of shortcomings.
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Completely, utterly, hopelessly unhinged. The Los Angeles-borne band have nothing to hold them back in all their noise.
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