Album Reviews
- Teenage Fanclub
Bandwagonesque / Thirteen / Grand Prix / Songs from Northern Britain / Howdy!
These vinyl reissues of the Scottish power-pop luminaries’ outstanding Creation Records output showcase a band whose music captures the feeling of living with the music you love.
- Lambchop
What Another Man Spills
On this sparkling reissue of an early career highlight, the act that billed itself as “the most fucked-up country band in Nashville” revels in the ecstasy of influence.
- Caterina Barbieri
Born Again in the Voltage
After the complex programming of last year’s Patterns of Consciousness, the Berlin-based composer explores new realms with her modular synthesizer, incorporating cello, voice, and doom-laden drones.
- Koran Streets
Late 20s
On the Berkeley rapper’s second album, he struggles with depression in stark, evocative terms, confirming his stature as one of the most intensely cathartic narrators out there.
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Big Thief Perform “Mary” | Pitchfork Music Festival 2018
Big Thief perform “Mary” live in Chicago for Pitchfork Music Festival 2018
More Recent Reviews
- Tirzah
Devotion
Produced by Mica Levi, Tirzah’s debut is a compelling vision of what imperfect pop music can be—joyful in both sound and feeling precisely because both seem so out-of-step and asymmetrical.
- DJ Muggs
Dia del Asesinato
The veteran producer and Cypress Hill alum reconnects with his New York roots on a fun, if not terribly challenging, revivalist romp surrounded by outer-borough icons and a few hungry upstarts.
- Miles Kane
Coup de Grace
The louche UK singer returns with an album that thrusts ahead quickly and painlessly but leaves you itching to shower off its overpowering cologne the second it’s over.
- Jake Shears
Jake Shears
The Scissor Sisters frontman’s solo debut could’ve been a disaster: A pop star moseys down to New Orleans to find “real music.” But if you’re not a stickler for authenticity, it’s actually irresistible.