Album Reviews
The singer/songwriter’s sophomore album (a 90-minute EP?) pairs haunting slowcore with epic drone
Music from the Merch Desk is a difficult album. First and most obviously would be…
Kendrick’s surprise-released new album is his most immediate and least conceptual, but that’s not a problem
A set of live-recorded minimalist meditations from a masterful jazz ensemble
The Midwestern group’s first record in six years and first after the death of their longtime pedal steel player is a beautiful downer
Conveying emotion, searching for community and positive reinforcement, establishing environments for collaboration, connecting through shared…
An album that never once shies away from the grand or the absurd
The comic absurdist doubles down on earnestness with his new set of folk rock
A splendid album of wide-eyed emotionalism and storytelling
A gloriously warped standout of cacophony
The London saxophonist raises the bar on her sophomore album
Tyler offers some of his most raw and personal material on his latest
The Girls frontman returns with a new solo album steeped in darkness but featuring some of his most stunning songs
A puzzling and disappointing 12-minute EP
Wes Eisold delves deeper into darkness on the synth-pop project’s fourth album
A disaster capitalism dance party from the Oakland/Berkeley collective
Filthy, lurid and witheringly self-assured rock ‘n’ roll