Kevin Morby (Woods, Babies) recalls singer/songwriters of the '60s and '70s in his solo work, particularly Bob Dylan and Leonard Cohen, and Singing Saw is his strongest album.
Avant-garde saxophonist Colin Stetson's reimagining of the famous symphony by the Polish composer Henryk Gorecki comes close to something by Explosions in the Sky or Godspeed You! Black Emperor.
Royce 5’9” has done his most visible rapping as a plus-one. Trying to move beyond that supporting role, he loads his sixth solo album with big-time producers, skits, and careful introspection.
On her fourth album, the Welsh singer Cate Le Bon establishes a strange, almost Dadaist lyrical scheme to make sense of some unnamed life rupture that's left her gasping.
YYY is a collaboration between the minimalist techno of Tyler Friedman and the improvised jazz drumming of Samuel Rohrer, split across two long, flowing tracks.
The iconoclastic artist talks about her politically-minded new electronic album, being deeply disappointed with the Obama presidency, and taking part in a system that doesn’t have humanity’s best interests at heart.
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On a fascinating and flawed new album, PJ Harvey yokes the siren-like catchiness of her last great America-influenced album, Stories From the City… to the swamp-tarnished filth of her classic first three records.
Xiu Xiu's tribute to the music of Twin Peaks is one of their most haunting and beautiful LPs in years.
Following on the heels of last year's O.K., the indie-pop outfit Eskimeaux releases a sweet little gem of an EP, fraught with indecision and insecurity.
Ben Watt's third solo album finds the Everything But the Girl co-founder continuing to explore his reignited love for live instrumentation.