More personal and forthright than its predecessor, Tell Me How You Really Feel relies less on its witty lyrics and more on improved songwriting that showcases a diverse set of rock instrumentation.
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A little less rough around the edges, Wide Awake! shows that it wasn’t rawness that gave Parquet Courts their appeal, but rather genuinely compelling songwriting and inventive approaches to punk attitudes.
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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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