National Music Reviews - SLUG Magazine https://www.slugmag.com Salt Lake UnderGround Wed, 10 Jun 2026 22:43:57 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://www.slugmag.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/cropped-favicon-SLUG-Magazine-Rebranding-SLUG-Square-Logo-3-32x32.png National Music Reviews - SLUG Magazine https://www.slugmag.com 32 32 Review: Kevin Morby – Little Wide Open https://www.slugmag.com/music/national-music-reviews/review-kevin-morby-little-wide-open/ Thu, 04 Jun 2026 23:18:48 +0000 https://www.slugmag.com/?p=197810 Kevin Morby feels like Neil Young, if Neil Young was mixed with Townes Van Zandt, Nick Drake and a little bit of regional brilliance of Sufjan Stevens. … read more

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Review: Flea — Honora https://www.slugmag.com/music/national-music-reviews/review-flea-honora/ Tue, 05 May 2026 19:59:13 +0000 https://www.slugmag.com/?p=196811 Flea is universally beloved. He is the American dream in an America in which we no longer know what that dream is. Flea is a legend. Flea is a national treasure. … read more

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Review: Marlon Funaki — Half Moon https://www.slugmag.com/music/national-music-reviews/review-marlon-funaki-half-moon/ Tue, 28 Apr 2026 22:38:44 +0000 https://www.slugmag.com/?p=196577 Funaki’s latest EP, Half Moon is his best yet. It will compete for best record with any other record released in the indie-alternative scene this year. … read more

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Review: Good Kid — Can We Hang Out Sometime? https://www.slugmag.com/music/national-music-reviews/review-good-kid-can-we-hang-out-sometime/ Mon, 27 Apr 2026 22:35:15 +0000 https://www.slugmag.com/?p=196521 The debut album from Canadian indie rock outfit Good Kid is the five-piece group’s first all-encompassing hard-launch toward more widespread notoriety. … read more

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Review: Thundercat — Distraction https://www.slugmag.com/slugmag/review-thundercat-distraction/ Mon, 27 Apr 2026 20:29:39 +0000 https://www.slugmag.com/?p=196465 Thundercat is back after six years with a project that will blow your silly patterned socks off, something that cuts through the brain fog and overstimulation. … read more

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Review: Gorillaz — The Mountain https://www.slugmag.com/music/national-music-reviews/review-gorillaz-the-mountain/ Tue, 21 Apr 2026 19:45:11 +0000 https://www.slugmag.com/?p=196364 No Gorillaz album would be complete without Hewlett’s art, a vast cacophony showing 2-D, Murdoc, Noodle and Russell journeying across India. … read more

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Review: Samara Cyn — Detour https://www.slugmag.com/music/national-music-reviews/review-samara-cyn-detour/ Wed, 15 Apr 2026 22:11:16 +0000 https://www.slugmag.com/?p=196140 As Samara Cyn’s sophomore project, the EP Detour enraptures your mind and attention in just 19 minutes. The production is mostly done by Two Fresh and Pera. … read more

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Review: Kim Gordon — PLAY ME https://www.slugmag.com/music/national-music-reviews/review-kim-gordon-play-me/ Tue, 31 Mar 2026 17:47:53 +0000 https://www.slugmag.com/?p=195687 With her third solo album PLAY ME, Kim Gordon has once again found reinvention. Still bringing the noise. Still the same Gordon bite, but with hip-hop beats. … read more

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Review: Bonnie Prince Billy – We Are Together Again https://www.slugmag.com/music/national-music-reviews/review-bonnie-prince-billy-we-are-together-again/ Fri, 27 Mar 2026 18:46:50 +0000 https://www.slugmag.com/?p=195561 Bonnie Prince Billy is a cool summer breeze, or that smell after it rains. He's yacht rock if the yacht was built by Huck Finn and floating down the Mississippi. … read more

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Review: War Child Records – HELP(2) https://www.slugmag.com/music/national-music-reviews/review-war-child-records-help2/ Wed, 25 Mar 2026 20:22:58 +0000 https://www.slugmag.com/?p=195482 HELP(2) by War Child Records showcases indie’s range through original songs and truly ingenious covers. It has a consistent tone of resistance mixed with grief. … read more

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Review: Mumford & Sons – Prizefighter https://www.slugmag.com/music/national-music-reviews/review-mumford-sons-prizefighter/ Thu, 19 Mar 2026 18:23:36 +0000 https://www.slugmag.com/?p=195373 There’s something about Prizefighter that feels like a warm, comforting hug. The record’s cover, a battered and bruised lighter, invokes the air of an heirloom. … read more

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Review: Ween – Bring out the Foos: Live 1996 https://www.slugmag.com/music/national-music-reviews/review-ween-bring-out-the-foos-live-1996/ Wed, 18 Mar 2026 22:25:41 +0000 https://www.slugmag.com/?p=195363 Bring Out the Foos: Live 1996 is a record that proves to be extremely unusual for Ween both during its recording and its final release 30 years later. … read more

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Review: Johnny Blue Skies & the Dark Clouds — Mutiny After Midnight https://www.slugmag.com/music/national-music-reviews/review-johnny-blue-skies-the-dark-clouds-mutiny-after-midnight/ Mon, 16 Mar 2026 17:46:02 +0000 https://www.slugmag.com/?p=195109 I listened to Mutiny After Midnight by Johnny Blue Skies over a dozen times. What proceeds is a raw, rock-heavy coalescence of edgy hedonism and revolution. … read more

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Review: Harry Styles — Kiss All The Time. Disco, Occasionally https://www.slugmag.com/music/national-music-reviews/review-harry-styles-kiss-all-the-time-disco-occasionally/ Wed, 11 Mar 2026 20:33:45 +0000 https://www.slugmag.com/?p=194973 Harry Styles peeks out from behind his pop persona and gives longtime fans and casual listeners alike a rare glimpse of a side of Harry we’ve never seen before.  … read more

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Review: Mitski — Nothing’s About to Happen to Me https://www.slugmag.com/music/national-music-reviews/review-mitski-nothings-about-to-happen-to-me/ Tue, 10 Mar 2026 17:38:29 +0000 https://www.slugmag.com/?p=194950 On Nothing's About To Happen To Me, Mitski removes the veil that hides the lonely, lost and isolated souls that drift wall-to-wall in their own homes, like ghosts. … read more

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Review: Mon Rovîa — Bloodline https://www.slugmag.com/music/national-music-reviews/review-mon-rovia-bloodline/ Fri, 27 Feb 2026 19:55:05 +0000 https://www.slugmag.com/?p=194650 Mon Rovîa has gone viral. Bloodline offers firsthand perspective of war and violence that's often missed by artists who haven’t witnessed such subjects.  … read more

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Review: YAWC-TV — Broadcast Complete https://www.slugmag.com/music/national-music-reviews/local-review-yawc-tv-broadcast-complete/ Thu, 12 Feb 2026 22:44:35 +0000 https://www.slugmag.com/?p=194278 YAWC-TV shows demonstrable competence in the structuring of his records, though he takes an unorthodox approach with Broadcast Complete. … read more

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Review: The Horse — The Horse https://www.slugmag.com/music/national-music-reviews/review-the-horse-the-horse/ Mon, 09 Feb 2026 23:18:18 +0000 https://www.slugmag.com/?p=194206 The Horse combines the styles of folk, ambient and chamber music to create a sound that is somehow both comforting and disquieting. … read more

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Review: Dry Cleaning — Secret Love https://www.slugmag.com/music/national-music-reviews/dry-cleaning-secret-love/ Thu, 05 Feb 2026 21:32:13 +0000 https://www.slugmag.com/?p=194148 Secret Love, is a stunner. Vocalist Florence Shaw talk/sings in a delicious, deadpan and direct style, around her stream of consciousness. … read more

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Review: A$AP Rocky — Don’t Be Dumb https://www.slugmag.com/music/national-music-reviews/review-aap-rocky-dont-be-dumb/ Thu, 29 Jan 2026 23:04:13 +0000 https://www.slugmag.com/?p=193940 Friendly fire with fake arms and the following drama that ensues is what sets the tone for this piece. … read more

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Review: Zach Bryan — With Heaven on Top https://www.slugmag.com/music/national-music-reviews/review-zach-bryan-with-heaven-on-top/ Tue, 27 Jan 2026 22:12:47 +0000 https://www.slugmag.com/?p=193814 The record is Bryan’s messiest. He’s all over the place in the perfect way. He oscillates between gentle and upbeat, never sitting still long enough to process. … read more

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Review: Florence + the Machine — Everybody Scream https://www.slugmag.com/music/national-music-reviews/review-florence-the-machine-everybody-scream/ Thu, 15 Jan 2026 00:04:15 +0000 https://www.slugmag.com/?p=193540 Florence + the Machine's Everybody Scream is full of breathless pleas, praying and preaching from the realms of reality and depths of imagination meld together. … read more

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Review: LANY — Soft https://www.slugmag.com/music/national-music-reviews/review-lany-soft/ Thu, 08 Jan 2026 22:20:43 +0000 https://www.slugmag.com/?p=193422 This album is precious. Like the title track and opener say, it is soft. It’s delicate. It’s a little hard to listen to if you aren’t in the throes of romance. … read more

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Review: The Last Dinner Party — From The Pyre https://www.slugmag.com/music/national-music-reviews/review-the-last-dinner-party-from-the-pyre/ Tue, 06 Jan 2026 21:55:40 +0000 https://www.slugmag.com/?p=193369 From The Pyre refreshingly deters from the concept of digestibility. It is not interested in telling you how to feel while listening; it simply allows you to feel it. … read more

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Review: Melody’s Echo Chamber — Unclouded https://www.slugmag.com/music/national-music-reviews/review-melodys-echo-chamber-unclouded/ Fri, 02 Jan 2026 22:08:58 +0000 https://www.slugmag.com/?p=193294 Melody's Echo Chamber is the musical project of French musician Melody Prochet. Her latest album Unclouded is a shock to the senses. … read more

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Review: Thien Dragon — CHAOS GARDEN https://www.slugmag.com/music/national-music-reviews/review-thien-dragon-chaos-garden/ Fri, 05 Dec 2025 19:55:24 +0000 https://www.slugmag.com/?p=192579 With low-poly graphics, dreamy pinks and purples and video game references, Thien Dragon’s world is a fun, playful adventure that lets you release your stress. … read more

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Review: Lily Allen — West End Girl https://www.slugmag.com/music/national-music-reviews/review-lily-allen-west-end-girl/ Fri, 28 Nov 2025 18:04:07 +0000 https://www.slugmag.com/?p=192311 My heart truly belongs to the pop girlies of the early 2000s and among the most underrated is Lily Allen. Post-90s, there was a sudden wave of women musicians. … read more

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Review: Portugal. The Man — SHISH https://www.slugmag.com/music/national-music-reviews/review-portugal-the-man-shish/ Fri, 21 Nov 2025 20:20:46 +0000 https://www.slugmag.com/?p=192202 If any band can pivot with confidence, it is Portugal. The Man. SHISH plays as both a reckoning and a renewal. It is lean, loud and full of character. … read more

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Review: Aesop Rock – I Heard It’s A Mess There Too https://www.slugmag.com/music/national-music-reviews/review-aesop-rock-i-heard-its-a-mess-there-too/ Wed, 12 Nov 2025 00:42:14 +0000 https://www.slugmag.com/?p=192050 Aesop Rock said in a press release, “The phrase ‘I Heard It’s A Mess There Too’ started as a lyric, but it got its hooks in me soon after." … read more

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Review: Ashes and Diamonds — Are Forever https://www.slugmag.com/music/national-music-reviews/review-ashes-and-diamonds-are-forever/ Wed, 29 Oct 2025 23:54:26 +0000 https://www.slugmag.com/?p=191594 Ashes and Diamonds is the new project from Daniel Ash, Bruce Smith and bassist Paul Spencer Denman. Are Forever is a record defined by driving rhythms. … read more

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