Music Reviews
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Wilco The Whole Love
For album number eight, the alt. country veterans value traditionalism as much as they revisit some of their psych-leaning mid-period to full effect.
Juan Edgardo Rodríguez feels the love... -
Youth Lagoon The Year of Hibernation
The Year of Hibernation certainly has the right ingredients to be a successful indie pop release: instantly enjoyable melodies and an approach that lets the music breathe — and that’s just the beginning.
Matt Montgomery reviews... -
The Drums Portamento
The Drums are no strangers to hype, but most of the hype surrounding their second album may not be the sort they're hoping for.
David Hogg reviews... -
Kasabian Velociraptor!
A fourth album, and an impressive one at that, but the sort that goes around its business with a baseball bat, a hooligan spirit and a mostly absent mind.
Joe Iliff reviews... -
Mastodon The Hunter
"I killed a man ‘cause he killed my goat.” Um… awesome.
Sean Caldwell reviews... -
Zola Jesus Conatus
The delicate, diminutive Zola Jesus seemed to arrive fully fledged on most people's radar last year with the Stridulum EP/album and an impressively low-key live act. But will Conatus deliver on that promise?
Mark Davison has been looking forward to finding out... -
Twin Sister In Heaven
Twin Sister find themselves part of the dream pop revival that briefly went through that bizarre chillwave moment — but while the band found themselves lumped into the trend, there's too much here for that shallow moniker.
Matt Montgomery reviews... -
Tori Amos Night of Hunters
In which the purveyor of sophisticated, piano-based, radio-friendly angst (and nonsensical lyrics about breakfast cereals) from the mid-90s attempts to create a proper full-on classical album.
Mark Davison really hopes that she's not trying to do a Sting... -
Das Racist Relax
After a couple of brilliant mixtapes, difficult-to-define comedy rappers Das Racist finally deliver a full-length.
Stephen Wragg. A million dollars. You feel me?!?! -
Nirvana Nevermind (Reissue)
The stellar Nevermind reissue shocks back to life something that was never dead.
Luredo Marbery remembers while listening to...
