Review: The Killers – Pressure Machine
The Killers’ seventh country-fied album Pressure Machine is about as far as you can get from the bright lights of Vegas
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Review: Modest Mouse – The Golden Casket
Modest Mouse’s seventh studio album The Golden Casket mashes the band’s radio-friendly and downright weird sides together, to say the least.
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Review: Kings of Convenience – Peace or Love
You’ll be glad Kings of Convenience are back after 12 years, but Peace or Love doesn’t surpass the duo’s 2000s releases.
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Review: Islands – Islomania
You might not have even noticed they were gone, but Islands are back and better than ever on Islomania.
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Review: Death From Above 1979 – Is 4 Lovers
Is 4 Lovers has the trappings of a new Death From Above 1979 to lead us into the 2020s, but spends most of its time recalling the band’s early intensity
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Why It’s Hard to be a Music Completionist (Or, the Case for More B-Side Compilations)
I try to listen to as much music as I can from my favorite artists. This can sometimes be a frustratingly difficult endeavor.
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Top Albums of 2020
The Indiecator’s top albums of 2020, in a slightly different format for this terrible year for music
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Review: The Avalanches – We Will Always Love You
We Will Always Love You’s embrace of musical guests makes it a good pop album, at the expense of the Avalanches’ presence and charm
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Review: Matt Berninger – Serpentine Prison
Serpentine Prison shows a new side of Matt Berninger, but it’s hard to imagine anyone other than existing fans of the National picking it up.
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Review: Everything Everything – Re-Animator
For a band who thrives in maximalism, the toned-down Re-Animator is surprisingly well done, even it comes at the expense of some excitement.
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Review: Bright Eyes – Down in the Weeds, Where the World Once Was
Down in the Weeds, Where the World Once Was brings all the aspects of past Bright Eyes together at once, and then turns everything up to 11.
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Review: Fontaines D.C. – A Hero’s Death
A Hero’s Death is the opposite of a sophomore slump.
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