Album Reviews
- Stereolab
Dots and Loops
Stereolab’s masterpiece fused analog with digital, past with future, Marxism with the commercial magic of music through a pristine record that defined an age of “recombinant pop.”
- Ramones
Leave Home
This 40th anniversary three-disc reissue of the second Ramones album is littered with alternate mixes, all attempting to achieve a precise balance of muscle and effervescence.
- Psychic TV
Pagan Day / Allegory and Self
With post-Throbbing Gristle outfit Psychic TV, Genesis P-Orridge bent together the opposing poles of psychedelia and industrial music. Two new reissues show the extremities of their early catalog.
- Lo Tom
Lo Tom
For his latest LP, Pedro the Lion’s David Bazan formed a new band and returned to straight-ahead guitar rock. It’s got some of his most aerodynamic songs in over a decade, but suffers from redundancy.
- Bjørn Torske
- Prins Thomas
Square One
The Scandinavian disco luminaries join for an album that draws on space rock, dub, leftfield disco, and post-punk, made more for the mind than the dancefloor.
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