Album Reviews
- Nine Inch Nails
Add Violence EP
Nine Inch Nails’ second EP in a year is as perplexing and immediate as their first. Trent Reznor has lost none of his power to discomfit and intimidate.
- Gal Costa
Índia
With 1973’s Índia, the samba singer Gal Costa cemented her status as one of Brazil’s biggest and most defiant stars, collaborating with Caetano Veloso and Gilberto Gil in the process.
- This Is the Kit
Moonshine Freeze
With her new record as This Is the Kit, singer-songwriter Kate Stables offers a collection of sparse folk that takes on the mysteries of mortality with a wizened sigh.
- Quindar
Hip Mobility
Constructed around archival NASA recordings, the latest from Wilco’s Mikael Jorgensen’s features meticulous, pop-molded instrumentals that feel just a little incomplete without a vocal narrative.
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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.