Album Reviews
Ireland’s black metal shape-shifters pursue increasingly compelling sounds with grace and vision.
As they celebrate their 30th year together, the Melvins pay tribute to their heroes via a set of covers.
Seattle riff rockers come back from deep space and get back to blowing speakers.
Sacramento math rockers finger-tap into some excellent melodies on their third album.
Phoenix maintain their creative solvency as they enter their fifth album at the peak of popularity.
Southern California powerviolence purveyors deepen their destruction on second album.
Stylistically eclectic UK pop singer finds an emotional sweet spot on her debut album.
UK producer The Haxan Cloak passes over into the other side on this darkly atmospheric album.
John Dwyer & Co. aren’t slowing down, but they are broadening their palette on this eclectic release.
The Thermals scale back their post-pop-punk, but find their spark dimming.
After a six-year absence, Rilo Kiley scrounge up some odds and ends, many of which should have stayed on the cutting-room floor.
Masked metal Swedes Ghost B.C. have stepped up the theatricality and the production crunch on their major label debut.
Sam Beam, with a team of excellent musicians to back him, opts for some smooth, ’70s-style production on his latest.
Chicago shoegazers Implodes take a stylistic ride through different dimensions on their second album.
NYC art-punk trio returns with a curious mixture of slow-burning dirges, goofball rockers and the occasional work of Godlike genius.
The Knife step out of everyone’s comfort zone and emerge with 98 minutes of chaotic transcendence.
Dubstep’s young prodigy further explores eclectic pop sounds on his second full-length.
With another set of solid garage grunge, Mudhoney endure as one of the certainties in life.
Weezy proves the naysayers right in this shambling, frustrating mess of a record.