Tranquility Base Hotel & Casino is Arctic Monkeys meets Las Vegas lounge in space. If you can approach that with an open mind, you’ll realize how much they’ve made their lofty ambitions work.
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The Vaccines’ fourth album Combat Sports combines styles past and present to make an album that doesn’t necessarily push the envelope, but comfortably fulfills its modest ambitions.
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Virtue tones down the excesses of the Voidz’s debut to deliver an album that is ultimately more accessible but less compelling.
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On third solo album Boarding House Reach, Jack White lays waste to our expectations about his music, but you might not like the results.
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I’ll Be Your Girl occasionally shows signs of brilliance, but its indecisiveness results less in ingenuity and more in blandness.
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The wholly electronic-based White Is Relic/Irrealis Mood is a scatterbrained album that delights as often as it confounds, and really stands out from every other of Montreal release.
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A Productive Cough is an altogether accessible and forthright album that shows a new side of Titus Andronicus, but compared to the band’s previous highs, it can sometimes feel like half a masterpiece.
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Fourteen years after exploding into the indie rock world, Always Ascending shows the band taking a cautious step into the current decade.
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It’s become cliché to call Little Dark Age a “return” for MGMT, but the album shows once again that the duo can make great, readily enjoyable music that still feels genuine.
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It’s not a stretch to say that most tracks on Semicircle could have fit elsewhere in the band’s discography, and few tracks from the Go! Team’s back catalogue would feel out of place on Semicircle.
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Whenever Brand New makes an announcement or otherwise enters public discourse in some way, you’re almost guaranteed to hear someone reminiscing about their high school days. This is understandable, since Brand New and fellow Long Island emo titans Taking Back Sunday wrote some top-notch tracks that perfectly encapsulated teenage angst. Brand New’s 2001 debut Your
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Originally, I planned to write this review like any other. I was going to talk about how Arcade Fire went from being a relatively unknown Canadian indie rock band in the mid-2000s to winning Album of the Year at the 2011 Grammys for their excellent album The Suburbs. I was going to mention how
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