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    Bargain Bin Babylon: Sister Sledge: We Are Family

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    Bargain Bin Babylon: Cowboy Junkies: ‘Cause Cheap Is How I Feel

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    Bargain Bin Babylon: Earth, Wind & Fire: All ‘n All

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    Bargain Bin Babylon: Henry “Buzz” Glass: Square Dance Variations Volume I

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    Discography: MF Doom: Viktor Vaughn: Venomous Villain (VV:2)

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    Discography: MF DOOM: Madvillainy

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    Holy Hell! Amnesiac Turns 20

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    Holy Hell! Flowers Turns 20

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    Holy Hell! Suburban Light Turns 20

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    Holy Hell! Free All Angels Turns 20

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    Interview: Nonagon

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    Interview: Peter Garrett from Midnight Oil

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    Interview: Janette King

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    Interview: Joseph D’Agostino of Empty Country

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    The Armed: ULTRAPOP

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    Koldovstvo: Ni Tsarya, Ni Boga

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    Dry Cleaning: New Long Leg

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    Barra Brown: LFT:RT

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    The Armed: ULTRAPOP

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    Koldovstvo: Ni Tsarya, Ni Boga

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    Beverly Glenn-Copeland: Keyboard Fantasies

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    Yoshinori Hayashi: Pulse of Defiance

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    Resequence: JPEGMAFIA: Veteran

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    Resequence: Prince: 1999

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    Rediscover: The Fall: Reformation Post TLC

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    Rediscover: Henry Cow: Western Culture

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    Rediscover: AFI: Sing the Sorrow

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    Criminally Underrated: Children of the Corn III: Urban Harvest

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    Criminally Underrated: Message in a Bottle

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    For the Sake of Vicious

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    Slalom

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    My True Fairytale

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    The Tunnel

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    Night of the Kings

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    Billie Eilish: The World’s a Little Blurry

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    The Swordsman

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    Nomadland

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    Holy Hell! Bridget Jones’s Diary Turns 20

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    From the Vaults of Streaming Hell: Miss Tulip Stays the Night

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    Holy Hell! Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone Turns 20

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    Holy Hell! Ghost World Turns 20

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    Oeuvre: Fellini: I Vitelloni

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Holy Hell

In this series, we examine albums as they turn 20 years of age, looking at the impact they made at the time and where they stand now, two decades on.

Holy Hell! Amnesiac Turns 20

By Aaron Paskin
2 days ago
in :  Holy Hell, Music, Music Features

Amnesiac sits at the midpoint of an illustrious career, and the 20-year mark is as good a time as any for a PSA that will enrage Radiohead’s legions of superfans: it’s just a bunch of B-sides. And it’s all the better for it.

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Holy Hell! Flowers Turns 20

By John L. Murphy
2 weeks ago
in :  Holy Hell, Music, Music Features

The Liverpudlian’s best reunion disc, it’s still less urgent and more uneven than the band at their peak.

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Holy Hell! Suburban Light Turns 20

By Jacob Nierenberg
3 weeks ago
in :  Holy Hell, Music, Music Features

Cobbled together from singles across a handful of British indie labels, Suburban Light feels timeless. Whenever and wherever you listen to this record, you’re transported to Alasdair MacLean’s misty vision of London.

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Holy Hell! Free All Angels Turns 20

By Will Pinfold
March 17, 2021
in :  Holy Hell, Music, Music Features

Twenty years on, Ash’s triumphant third album still packs a punch, but sounds more like a last gasp of a dying era than the dawning of a new one.

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Holy Hell! Yeah Yeah Yeahs EP Turns 20

By John Paul
February 24, 2021
in :  Holy Hell, Music, Music Features

Like their fellow members of the class of 2001, Yeah Yeah Yeahs would ultimately prove not to be the future face of rock and roll and would ultimately begin a slow fade into obsolescence.

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Holy Hell! Bath Turns 20

By Colin Dempsey
February 10, 2021
in :  Holy Hell, Music, Music Features

Bath is an intimidatingly dense work of progressive metal that’s equally pretentious and stone-faced. Everything - and as Driver has gone on record to say, everything - is intentional

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Holy Hell! Very Soon, and in Pleasant Company Turns 20

By Justin Vellucci
February 3, 2021
in :  Holy Hell, Music, Music Features

Shipping News discovered – and displayed – they could do something bigger than blistering post-hardcore; they learned how to make math-rock with genuine heartbeats and feeling – no small task.

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Holy Hell! Fixed:: Context Turns 20

By Daniel Bromfield
January 20, 2021
in :  Holy Hell, Music, Music Features

You might wonder what chord progressions more suited for college-rock chestnuts like “I Melt With You” than for ambient music are doing on an album like this. Then, while your brain is busy doing other things, these pieces grow vines and roots and turn into something much wilder and more ancient than Modern English.

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Holy Hell! The Last Match Turns 20

By John L. Murphy
November 18, 2020
in :  Holy Hell, Music, Music Features

With their sophomore album, the Aislers Set branched out instrumentally, into wider sonic influences.

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Holy Hell! NYC Ghosts & Flowers Turns 20

By Tim Sentz
October 28, 2020
in :  Holy Hell, Music, Music Features

The legacy of NYC Ghosts & Flowers is more remembered today than the actual album’s content. Originally released in spring 2000, the experimental record from Sonic Youth was critically panned for being self-indulgent, and was notoriously ripped to shreds in the infamous Pitchfork review where Brent DiCrescenzo runs a train on the band’s egos. DiCrescenzo hits the classic noise rockers …

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