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You can check out but you’ll never leave the Detroit post-punks’ new concept album, which grimly parodies the United States’ ugliest realities as odious guests at a cursed hotel.
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| Rank | Album | Stations | Days on chart | Spins |
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| 1 | ![]() | KUTX, The Current, WXPN | 7 | 38 spins |
| 2 | ![]() | KEXP, The Current, WXPN | 1 | 3 spins |
You can check out but you’ll never leave the Detroit post-punks’ new concept album, which grimly parodies the United States’ ugliest realities as odious guests at a cursed hotel.
Nobody’s reinventing the wheel on ‘Nature’s Pill’, but Wishy are having a whale of a time rolling it downhill.
Detroit-based Protomartyr are no stranger to the bleak depiction.
Protomartyr’s seventh album Hotel Usona (short for United States of North America) creates a fitting soundtrack as the country is pummeled by bad reviews.
The debut album from the UK sextet artfully weaves post-punk experimentation with promising strides toward open-hearted pop songwriting.
On its third album, the Kansas-by-way-of-Boston duo adds a growly, gritty new density to its airtight art-punk songs.
The UK band smooths out its characteristically jagged post-punk for a vaguely uplifting album that brings to mind lots of older British rock groups.
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