Luke Cartledge
- Indexed articles, last 90 days
- 4
- Latest publication
- Sep 24, 2026
- Outlet visibility, for Paste Magazine
- Top 500K sites
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- Jul 8, 2026
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Review: Protomartyr dive headlong into the American nightmare on 'Hotel Usona' (opens the original)
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Protomartyr have never done things the easy way. From singer Joe Casey’s handmade album artwork to drummer Alex Leonard’s impish, kinetic inversions of classic post-punk rhythm, the Detroit band maintain a workman-like lack of compromise in everything they do. Cerebral, instinctive or otherwise, nothing in the Protomartyr canon is ill-considered or under-distilled. For many listeners, myself included, this sense of commitment and purpose made them instantly appealing on first exposure, yet it’d
Ty Segall lets his heavy side loose on Chrome (opens the original)
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At this point, it’s safe to say that longtime listeners know what to expect from a new Ty Segall album: seismic blues-scale riffs, yowled melodies, glinting solos, an artful cocktail of brute force and nimble eclecticism. Yet as familiar as the relentlessly prolific Segall’s sound has become, and indeed as familiar as many of its core ingredients have been since day one, he always seems to find new combinations, novel developments, subtle shifts in emphasis. In recent years, the palette has expa
Sweeping Promises, 'You Say I Romanticize' Review (opens the original)
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There’s something so refreshing about Sweeping Promises. A Kansas-based two-piece, Lira Mondal and Caufield Schnug specialize in short, sharp slices of punk-inflected garage-pop. Their first two albums cut through the pandemic-induced uncertainty of early-2020s US underground music almost by sheer force of will, their hooks too insistent and their performances too committed to be ignored. On You Say I Romanticize, we pretty much get more of the same, with some minor developments; it reflects wel
Kelela, 'new avatar' Album Review (opens the original)
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There’s a moment, a little under a minute into the new album from R&B maverick Kelela, at which everything just comes together. It feels like a resolution, but surely it’s too early for that: we’ve only had fifty-eight seconds of relatively spare intro section up to this point. Perhaps, then, it’s not a resolution of something internal to the record itself, but an expression of some wider sense of relief. The moment in question is the shift to the chorus of “idea 1,” taking the opening track of
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