Music Reviews
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Torche Restarter
Though Torche still remain one of the most vital purveyors of stoner pop around, their latest can feel much heavier on the stoner aspect and lacking on the pop that made them unique.
Peter Quinton reviews... -
Quarterbacks Quarterbacks
Blazing through 19 scrappy, catchy songs in a little over 20 minutes, Quarterbacks might be the most hyper and diffuse twee-punk album ever made. It's also one of the most heartfelt and addicting.
Peter Quinton reviews... -
Mark Ronson Uptown Special
After the biggest hit of his career, there's more pressure than ever on Mark Ronson to deliver.
Joe Rivers is smoother than a fresh jar of Skippy... -
Idlewild Everything Ever Written
The much-lauded Edinburgh veterans return after a six-year hiatus with their seventh LP, making sound songwriting choices consonant with already established motifs.
Juan Edgardo Rodríguez reviews... -
Jessica Pratt On Your Own Love Again
Jessica Pratt's second album of dreamlike, home-recorded songs, simple and intimate, subtly hints towards the impossibility of transmuting feeling into expression.
Stephen Wragg reviews... -
Matana Roberts Coin Coin Chapter 3: River Run Thee
The latest by the experimental jazz musician supplements the raspy doggedness of her saxophone with a down-trodden cornucopia of tape collage, spoken-word passages, and terse singing.
Joseph Moore reviews... -
The Decemberists What a Terrible World, What a Beautiful World
Four years after the release of their most commercially successful record, The Decemberists are back with another album of literary folk-pop.
Mark Davison reviews... -
Menace Beach Ratworld
The latest band to come out of the thriving Leeds rock scene, Menace Beach bring with them a helter-skelter of snarling fuzz in the form of a zesty debut LP. Ratworld wears its influences brazenly on its sleeves, but its execution is impressive, presenting an odd bird view of a world that is ostensibly its own.
Carl Purvis reviews... -
Bob Dylan Shadows In The Night
Like the best of the 20th century music it celebrates, Shadows In The Night is both sad and glorious, proving to be an ingenious follow-up to 2012's Tempest.
It's Bob Dylan's thirty-sixth studio album, folks... -
Father John Misty I Love You, Honeybear
J. Tillman becomes one of the great diarists of our generation in I Love You, Honeybear, possessing a keen, merciless intelligence within a sophisticated melodic sensibility.
Juan Edgardo Rodríguez reviews...
