Pete Laurie, Journalist

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Album Review: Sharon Van Etten - Are We There

"Are We There still sounds like a hazy dream, and that’s what makes it so interesting"

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Album Review: Naive Thieves - Vamonos

"Vamonos is light fluff. But it’s infectiously listenable, smile-inducing, light fluff "

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Album Review: Little Matador - Little Matador

While this is a good album, they hold themselves back from making it a great one.

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Album Review: Dan Wilson - Love Without Fear

Right out of the gate, Love Without Fear’s opening and title track sets the table for what’s to come: solid songwriting, tight arrangements and a hopeful melancholy.

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Album Review: The Valery Trails - Buffalo Speedway

While we may have had plenty of bands that sounded like The Valery Trails at one time, they offer something that’s sorely needed in 2014. File under ‘toned-down Blueline Medic’.

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Album Review: The Family Rain - Under The Volcano

Under The Volcano is big yet intimate, ambitious yet restrained, epic yet reined in – a delicate balance that yields plenty of grand gestures without the pomposity.

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Album Review: Nickel Creek - A Dotted Line

"For the most part, Nickel Creek are all acoustic guitar, banjo, fiddle and tight country harmonies."

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Album Review: Eagulls - Eagulls

"Eagulls is going at full speed the second you press play, and with an energy this raw, why waste time with pleasantries?"

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Album Review: Sick Puppies - Connect

They’ve got something to say, and say it best loud.

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Album Review: Liam Finn - The Nihilist

These songs are too well crafted – and the album as a whole is too much of an expertly executed big picture – for nihilism to have ever played a part in its creation.

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Album Review: Sun God Replica - The Devil And The Deep

Listen to it loud.

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Album Review: Architects - Lost Forever // Lost Together

With this album, Architects reach into your chest like an Indiana Jones villain, tear out your still-beating heart and make you stare at it for 11 tracks of maximum brutality.

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