Music Reviews

Freelance Whales Weathervanes

Weathervanes is too lacking in substance to make it more than an occasional indulgence (like a fried Twinkie) or a novelty album for snugglin'.

Julianna Barwick Florine

Strikingly innovative, intensely private, surreally beautiful.

White Hinterland Kairos

After crafting a jazz aesthetic with their debut, the Portland duo switch to a synthesized template, an almost-unrecognizable reinvention that inverts the meaning of a sophomore slump.

Thee Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra Kollaps Tradixionales

Despairing, bleak, hopeless and defiant.  Yay!

Lil Wayne Rebirth

Zu The Way of the Animal Powers (Reissue)

Out-of-print for five years, Zu’s The Way of the Animal Powers is being reintroduced to obscurity.

Shout Out Louds Work

If this album were a little worse, I could have written something like "Listening to Work feels like a job!" Then David would give me a big check and some girl would blow me, because puns are the best. Sadly, though, it's just a pretty good pop record.

Blair Die Young

Why die young when you've got your whole career ahead of you? In Blair's case, let's just hope she waits a little while longer.

jj jj n° 3

Swedish indie-pop enigma jj broke out last year, gaining notoriety with their cannabis-emblazoned full-length debut, jj n° 2.  With their follow-up, jj n° 3, they won't be so lucky.

White Hills White Hills

The second album from psych-rock band White Hills has a few good, fun riffs amidst a sea of sloppy guitar wanking.