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...Sonic Youth’s Thurston Moore plays guitar on “Wish I Was You”, a squally 1990s alt-rock throwback with lyrics about a competitive female friendship, seemingly inspired by Elena Ferrante’s Neapolitan Novels...
...If “Take Stage” recalls the shadowy dreamscapes of Tricky or Ghostpoet, then this one has a powerful, squally post-punk sound. A whispery guest rap comes from rapper and DJ Lex Amor....
...Their second album never quite catches fire, but it has an unkempt, squally charm, as with “Always Afraid”’s bold lurch into free jazz. Crystal Antlers Two-Way Mirror (Recreation Ltd)...
...Fuzzy Stooges guitars recall the first Grinderman album; “Heathen Child” is squally blues by numbers....
...A rude, squally garage-rock quartet, they represent a return to the abrasive style of Old Nick, the devilish young Cave of The Birthday Party. But with a crucial difference....
...From Iran, Rafi Pitts’s The Hunter () is another outsider’s testimony from a despotic land. Iranian-born, Pitts now lives in Europe....
...A squally garage-rocker about “male Caucasian blues” depicted him as a decaying middle-aged rock star Lothario, a comic self-portrait owing a debt to Nick Cave....
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