Album Review: Waxahatchee – Out in the Storm

The title of Katie Crutchfield’s new album as Waxahatchee, Out in the Storm, might ring familiar to her longtime fans. After all, ..

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Album Review: Tyler, The Creator – Scum Fuck Flower Boy

The preconceived notions of what a Tyler, The Creator album is gonna be like are plentiful well before you even press play. This has been ..

7 years ago
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Album Review: HAIM – Something to Tell You

Taking four years to return after a highly praised debut is no longer a risky proposition. HAIM came to dominance before they’d even ..

7 years ago
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Album Review: Broken Social Scene – Hug of Thunder

In the opening to season three of HBO series The Leftovers, a woman in the 1800s climbs her roof to prepare for the end of the world, an apocalyptic ..

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Album Review: SZA – Ctrl

The trilogy that began as an acronym — one album for each letter of SZA’s name — instead ends as a key command with ..

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Album Review: Lorde – Melodrama

It’s inconceivable to imagine a charting, young 2010s pop act that doesn’t command a cult of personality, so let’s just ..

7 years ago
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Album Review: Jeff Tweedy – Together at Last

“I shake like a toothache when I hear myself sing,” Jeff Tweedy confesses on “Ashes of American Flags”. Those sound ..

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Album Review: Paramore – After Laughter

After Laughter finds Paramore, like Carly Rae Jepsen and M83 before them, delving into the pantheon of ’80s pop and declaring, “There’s ..

8 years ago
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Album Review: DREAMCAR – DREAMCAR

One would be hard-pressed to count all the hats Davy Havok has worn in the 20-plus years since his career took off as the frontman of that ..

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Album Review: Chris Stapleton – From a Room Vol. 1

As great as Chris Stapleton’s debut album, Traveller, was (and still is), that 2015 record felt like the product of an artist ..

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Album Review: Cayetana – New Kind of Normal

“Sometimes it’s hard to say when you’re just having a rough day.” These are the first words Augusta Koch sings on Cayetana’s ..

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Album Review: Slowdive – Slowdive

It’s no secret that shoegaze finds itself in dire straits these days due to a lack of innovation. While the genre’s roots are alive ..

8 years ago
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Album Review: Mac DeMarco – This Old Dog

Despite his unkempt attire, love of fart jokes, and the term most often used to describe his music, Mac DeMarco is anything but a slacker. ..

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Album Review: Feist – Pleasure

If you’re lucky, at some point in life you meet a person who radiates an inexplicable warmth, like there’s a tiny star glowing ..

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Album Review: Kendrick Lamar – DAMN.

“Whoever thought the greatest rapper would be from coincidence/ Because if Anthony killed Ducky/ Top Dawg could be servin’ life/ ..

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Album Review: The Cranberries – Something Else

Something Else by The Cranberries is a strange sort of greatest hits compilation. On one hand, it does collect the Irish band’s most ..

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Album Review: Incubus – 8

For a decade, Incubus’ sixth album, Light Grenades, held the notorious world record for largest drop from a first-week No. 1 album ..

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Album Review: Sylvan Esso – What Now

“Deceptively simple” encapsulates Sylvan Esso’s entire brand. You can plumb the hidden depths of their work, or not; they’re ..

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Album Review: Little Dragon – Season High

At this point, Little Dragon are veterans. The Swedish four-piece dance group have been releasing albums for over a decade, working their ..

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Album Review: Joey Bada$$ – All-Amerikkkan Bada$$

It’s hard to believe that Joey Bada$$ is only 22. The internet seems to age culture in dog years, so it feels like much longer than ..

8 years ago
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Album Review: Future Islands – The Far Field

The Letterman performance was never the full story. When Future Islands performed the soon-to-be smash single “Seasons (Waiting on You)” ..

8 years ago
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Album Review: Arca – Arca

On last year’s blistering, bombastic mixtape Entrañas, Venezuelan producer Arca ended his mix on a surprising note with “Sin ..

8 years ago
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Album Review: Mastodon – Emperor of Sand

Love and death are the deepest wells for a songwriter to mine. Unfortunately for Mastodon — though it has deepened their songwriting ..

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Album Review: Jamiroquai – Automaton

Seven years after the debut of their 2010 Rock, Dust, Light, Star album, Jamiroquai make their highly anticipated return as the future-forward ..

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Album Review: Pharmakon – Contact

No matter where she performs, what she’s performing, or who she’s performing to, there comes a point in Pharmakon’s live ..

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Album Review: Father John Misty – Pure Comedy

In a seemingly indefinite era of noise (fake news, social media, you name it), a man who gets it can be king. At minimum, philosophers can prove ..

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Album Review: Michelle Branch – Hopeless Romantic

Heartbreak is a curious thing. It’s an unmatched pain, ruthless even. But it’s also perhaps the best catalyst for creativity, ..

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Album Review: Goldfrapp – Silver Eye

One thing that refreshingly distinguishes electropop duo Goldfrapp from most musical acts is that they never make the same album back-to-back. ..

8 years ago
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