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Post-Rock Icons Tortoise Return with Transportive LP
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Jeremy Levine
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10 November 2025
Tortoise’s Touch is a cinematic record that is profoundly human and entirely spectral. It’s a world unto itself, filled with beautiful landmarks and perplexing questions.
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MetalMatters: The Best Metal Albums of November 2025
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Spyros Stasis
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10 November 2025
In November’s best metal, Yellow Eyes are in their finest moment, Barren Path rise from the ashes of Gridlink, and Blut Aus Nord navigate dreamscapes.
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Video Game Storytelling Is a World-Colliding Reinvention
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Jesse Kavadlo
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5 November 2025
Whereas the novel specializes in psychological interiority, video game storytelling allows players to experiment outwardly in world-colliding fashion.









































