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 Read More
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. Read More
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. Read More
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. Read More
Review: Fontaines D.C. – A Hero’s Death A Hero’s Death is the opposite of a sophomore slump. Read More
Review: Muzz – Muzz Muzz brings the talents of three musicians together to make a sophisticated album that stands apart from each of their main projects. Read More
Review: Car Seat Headrest – Making a Door Less Open Making a Door Less Open is essentially Car Seat Headrest's way of saying “screw it” to the hype and doing what they want. Read More
Review: The Strokes – The New Abnormal After their years of youthful rock star indiscretion and then years apart after that, the Strokes have really pulled themselves together on The New Abnormal Read More
Review: Sufjan Stevens & Lowell Brams – Aporia There’s a few hiccups and a few highlights, but Aporia otherwise takes you on a pleasant albeit innocuous journey. Read More
Review: Stephen Malkmus – Traditional Techniques For all his musical unpredictability lately, Stephen Malkmus certainly sounds like he knows what he’s doing on the folksy Traditional Techniques. Read More
Review: Tame Impala – The Slow Rush Combining the electronic psychedelia of Currents with ruminations on time slipping by, your future self will thank you for giving The Slow Rush a listen. Read More
Review: Destroyer – Have We Met Have We Met’s gloomy lyrics and pared-back instrumentation shouldn’t turn you off from what’s essentially a great release. Read More
Review: Bombay Bicycle Club – Everything Else Has Gone Wrong Everything Else Has Gone Wrong is less a grand comeback album than a warm “welcome back” album. Read More
Review: Of Montreal – UR FUN The synthpop of UR FUN make it the most accessible of Montreal in some time, though longer-term fans may be less easily impressed. Read More