Music Reviews
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Hinds Leave Me Alone
Hinds' debut LP is giddy with an infectious, effortless joy. Music doesn’t need to be perplexing, and the Madrid-based four-piece are far too concerned about having a good time to let it become so.
Carl Purvis reviews... -
David Bowie Blackstar
With Blackstar, David Bowie disengages himself once again from popular opinion and scoffs at the idea of taking the righteous path, finding inspiration in what is immoral and contentious.
Juan Edgardo Rodríguez reviews... -
Arca Mutant
Alejandro Ghersi’s Mutant almost seems to run against the notion of music itself, threatening to tumble out of a digital underworld and materialize into one of Jesse Kanda’s fear-inducing deformities.
Joseph Moore reviews... -
SOPHIE PRODUCT
The London-based producer, and PC music alumni, releases his much-anticipated, and highly marketable, singles compilation.
Juan Edgardo Rodríguez (the brand) reviews... -
Oneohtrix Point Never Garden of Delete
Garden of Delete is Daniel Lopatin’s latest attempt at trying to find a middle ground between creation and annihilation, interconnecting a series of disjointed elements that offer up a reflection on media consumption in the digital era.
Juan Edgardo Rodríguez reviews... -
Jamie Woon Making Time
Jamie Woon's second LP is a meticulously crafted, refined exhibition of velvety work, dressed immaculately in syrupy neo-soul.
Carl Purvis has dimmed the lights... -
Joanna Newsom Divers
Joanna Newsom returns after five years with an album significantly shorter but no less demanding than the gargantuan triple-album Have One On Me.
Forrest Cardamenis holds his breath... -
Beach Slang The Things We Do to Find People Who Feel Like Us
The Philadelphia foursome's debut effort is rife with spry, anthemic scorchers that triumph with ragged, open-hearted emotion.
Juan Edgardo Rodríguez reviews... -
Majical Cloudz Are You Alone?
Are You Alone is about self-rehabilitation as much as it is about calm introspection, an absorbing and deeply personal listen that gives singer-songwriter Devon Welsh the chance to reassure himself that solitude only exists relative to its opposite.
Juan Edgardo Rodríguez reviews... -
The Libertines Anthems For Doomed Youth
With their first album in over a decade, can The Libertines recapture that lightning in a bottle that made them one of the most exciting bands of the early 21st Century?
Joe Rivers finds some of us have aged better than others...
