Music Reviews
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Fiona Apple The Idler Wheel Is Wiser Than The Driver Of The Screw And Whipping Cords Will Serve You More Than Ropes Will Ever Do
The Idler Wheel, Fiona Apple's return after seven years, is a sparse, yet scintillating effort that never holds back in pursuit of bringing big emotions to the fore.
Juan Edgardo Rodríguez reviews... -
Friends Manifest!
The Brooklyn band behind I'm His Girl release their debut album, Manifest! Continuing with their influences in new wave and dance punk, Friends charm their ways through the singles, but it's the tracks between these already beloved songs that give the band away.
David Hogg reviews... -
Laurel Halo Quarantine
Laurel Halo's first full-length, called Quarantine, amplifies her vocals, bringing them to the forefront. But are they exactly the change in direction she should be taking?
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Ty Segall Band Slaughterhouse
The best way to keep up with Ty Segall, if you live in Europe anyway (he won’t be touring here until late July), is to listen his records. Kind of obvious you might think.
Matt Bevington tells you some things... -
DIIV Oshin
Pretty, aquatic dream-pop from Beach Fossils and Smith Westerns associates.
Stephen Wragg diivs in... -
Squarepusher Ufabulum
Squarepusher's newest album, Ufabulum, goes heavy on the erratic computer-programming that first harbored critical claim for his earlier albums.
Michael Iovino reviews... -
Arc in Round Arc in Round
Formerly known as Relay, the Philadelphia noise pop foursome re-invents their high-strung guitar rock - and name - with the inclusion of sparkly, glitched synths, amid traversing similar sonic terrain.
Juan Edgardo Rodríguez loves second chances... -
Dirty Three Toward the Low Sun
Instrumental album with a bad seed, a journeyman guitarist and "indie rock's drummer of choice" according to some article on the drummer's wikipedia page.
James McKenna reviews... -
Dr John Locked Down
The latest offering by New Orleans blues/R&B legend is produced by The Black Keys' Dan Auerbach.
David John Wood needs to see a doctor... -
Coastal Crumble Blue
'The heartbreaking tale of a loser lost in pink noise.'
Matt Bevington reviews
