Album Reviews
- Lana Del Rey
Lust for Life
The fourth full-length from Lana Del Rey is sincere and sublime, pushing her fascination with pop culture iconography even further while adding a newly personal touch.
- Avey Tare
Eucalyptus
Dave Portner’s latest album as Avey Tare is ambitious and inspiring. His painful, deeply personal, and intimate songs are in constant search for new sounds and emotions.
- Bedouine
Bedouine
The soulful debut from Syrian-born Azniv Korkejian showcases the depth of her songwriting and uses Spacebomb’s retro sound to create an exquisite, subtle, and wide-eyed collection of songs.
- Jana Rush
Pariah
Twenty years into her career, after a hiatus of more than a decade, the Chicago footwork producer finally releases her debut album, taking apart her hometown’s club genres and recombining them in captivatingly original ways.
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- The Beacon Sound Choir
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The composer Peter Broderick assembles a 35-strong choir of professional and amateur singers, and the results are like a secular church service: rough around the edges, punctuated with laughter, and joyous.
- Us and Us Only
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The Baltimore band’s full-length debut uses slowcore not just as a variant of indie rock, but also a framework to make real-deal pop songs that make boredom sound utterly desirable.