Album Reviews
There is still beauty to Jamie Stewart’s compositions, even when, as is the case here, they’re mercilessly disturbing and bleak.
After three decades, Roddy Frame’s opening statement sounds as timeless and pristine as ever.
Broken Bells sound comfortable on second album After the Disco, but not at the expense of a good song.
UK singer Katy B approaches genre transcendence while showing off a greater degree of songwriting sophistication.
Memphis emcee continues to push the boundaries of hip-hop, even prompting the question at times of whether that’s even what this is.
Indie pop group takes gradual steps toward scaling back on this soothing and sparse sophomore effort.
Dark, blackened studio project more than lives up to the heaviness it promises, even if live dynamic isn’t there.
Greg Fox pushes his psychedelic art project into deeper terrain.
Still based around skeletal piano arrangements, Gem Club go for some slight expansions the second time around.
Dee Dee Penny & Co. take a big step forward on this darker set of dream-pop gems.
Chicago sludge/doom outfit continue to mire ugly, thick sounds to magnificent effect.
Sacred Bones pieces together bits and pieces of an obscure anarchopunk band from the ’80s in this new collection.
The punk band’s new concept album about a transgendered prostitute isn’t autobiographical, but there are traces of Laura Jane Grace’s own experience behind its lyrics.
More than three years after The Fool, L.A. dream-pop group deepens the mystery and expands their sound.
French metalgazers drop the metal completely on their fourth album, and instead focus on crafting uniquely pretty dream pop.
On their latest album, the Glasgow post-rock titans transition deeper into synth-based sounds.
The sound of Darren Cunningham’s possible retirement, or the peak of a career spent pursuing bold, powerful sounds.
A reissued deluxe edition of the most gorgeous and confusing maybe concept album about Richard Nixon.
Australian sibling trio Blank Realm blast into outer space on their latest LP.
