Music Reviews
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La Sera Music for Listening to Music to
Katy Goodman enlists Ryan Adams to produce her fourth record as La Sera, a more discreetly adult effort that maintains her good ear for vigorous, sharp hooks.
Juan Edgardo Rodriguez reviews... -
Animal Collective Painting With
Animal Collective's tenth studio project, Painting With, does has an unrehearsed quality to it, that of four musicians who are tacking together all these disparate ideas with the intent of cobbling together a cohesive whole.
Juan Edgardo Rodríguez gets lost... -
Sunflower Bean Human Ceremony
With their debut LP, Sunflower Bean march to an offbeat fitting room with armfuls of genres to try on for size, and manage to look good in most of it.
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Porches Pool
Aaron Maine is so sad today.
Juan Edgardo Rodríguez steps inside... -
Daughter Not To Disappear
Daughter's second album is a more upbeat, less smothering affair than its predecessor.
Forrest Cardamenis reviews... -
DIIV Is The Is Are
DIIV's second effort, Is the Is Are, is told with barefaced honesty, seen through the lens of a band that is reclaiming their capacities as a unit after their lead songwriter faced near self-destruction.
Juan Edgardo Rodríguez reviews... -
Milk Teeth Vile Child
Milk Teeth plumb their influences from the best of the nineties grunge scene and create their own invigorating organic brand.
Carl Purvis reviews... -
Ty Segall Emotional Mugger
At this point, Ty Segall should be a genre.
Sean Caldwell reviews... -
Steven Wilson 4 1/2
4 1/2 marks a halfway point between Steven Wilson's last full-length record and whatever comes next. While Wilson may be clearing house, most of these tracks are decidedly not throwaways.
Joe Marvilli looks back with Steven Wilson, before he moves forward... -
Savages Adore Life
Savages question how love informs life on their brazenly inclusive second effort.
Juan Edgardo Rodríguez reviews...
