Mary Sue and the Clementi Sound Appreciation Club question everything on ‘Porcelain Shield, Paper Sword’
June 12, 2025
Defying categorization at every turn, the collaborative album pushes forward, exploring and experimenting.
Defying categorization at every turn, the collaborative album pushes forward, exploring and experimenting.
The UK duo’s daring debut album could only have emerged from the depths of internet music culture.
Catchy and disorienting, energetic yet lethargic, luscious and mystifying but proudly lo-fi, delivered nonchalantly with tender passion.
The U.K.-based art rock band has quickly returned with another palpably moody gut-punch of an EP, driven by poetic world-building and electrifying musicianship.
The latest project continues the Oakland-based artist’s enduring sound made by floaty, sparse samples, distorted vocals, and intimate lyrics.
The Los Angeles-based duo takes listeners to church from the moment they hit play on their latest project.
His outfits, his lyrics, his beat selection, his style bear the marks of an outlandish artist who leaves a lasting impact.
The duo’s latest project maintains an emotional cohesion—an odd mood lingering somewhere between doom and the performance of a dancing jester.
Released on his label, Ruby Yacht, the rapper is growing his community while pushing his music in a personal and introspective direction.
The new album directly and sincerely reflects the Buffalo-based rapper’s reality—triumphant one moment, potentially tragic the next.
