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
You would be forgiven if with Hypnagogic Hallucinations, Bedsore‘s acclaimed debut, you were not fully…
Conveying emotion, searching for community and positive reinforcement, establishing environments for collaboration, connecting through shared…
The hardcore group’s blistering second album breathes fire at the powers that be
An album that never once shies away from the grand or the absurd
One of the Rhode Island duo’s most versatile showcases of noise
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
Japandroids were never the type of band to fade away. You’d be forgiven to assume otherwise,…