Album Reviews

25 in ’25: A List Of (Mostly) 25 Albums That Were Listened To Over And Over And Over Some More In The RNRF Offices To Distract From The Outside World In 2025.

2025 was a weird year personally for us and even weirder music-wise! We thought we had our Top 5 of the year locked down by June then something rolled up to our digital inbox in late summer and completely floored us/threw off the early ending we thought we had for [...]

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Osis Fuse Post-Punk With Classic Orange County And DC Styles For A Fun And Frenetic Collection Of Songs On New EP

OC/DC was what we thought Osis was called… but as it turns out it’s a sound, a movement, a feeling! And if Boston’s Osis is the sound of that feeling then the feeling is raw, unbridled modern Punk Rawk raucousness. Or, if you want to be literal about it all, [...]

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RNRF Local Look ’25 (Or how we learned to do nothing but re-listen to everything we’ve already reviewed over the past 360+ days in a span of a few days)

Y’know what? We did this to ourselves. We’re not complaining at all. It’s just when we’re hours upon hours into this thing then we wanna know who exactly is to blame. And it’s us! But let’s backtrack for a sec, okay? We expanded our year end list a few years [...]

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Joshua David Thayer Makes Some Modern Malkmus, Tweedy On Grand Alternative Folk Of So Little, Close To Nothing

More often than not, we miss out on perfect timing to cover an artist or album and are just waiting for the perfect opportunity to pounce once again with some appropriate posts. Joshua David Thayer is one of those artists that’s been on our radar for some time yet eluded [...]

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Tops Of ’25: Men Without Hats, On The Moon

Sure, the world might be going to shit but the fact that we have some BRAND NEW Men Without Hats music to experience together (And separately, that we get to review) means that maybe things ain’t all that bad? Or, at the very least, Ivan Doroschuk and fam/friends, have created [...]

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Tops Of ’25: VOWWS I’ll fill your house with an army

You ever get an advance for one of your most anticipated releases months in advance, make a boatload of nonsensical observations initially, move onto the next shiny thing in the moment, then have an “OH shit!” moment when you realize that record you’ve had for some time is about to [...]

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