Music Reviews
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Japanese Breakfast Jubilee
While much has been made of Jubilee being an album about joy—and in some ways, it is—the majority of the third Japanese Breakfast album captures a full breadth of emotions.
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Modest Mouse The Golden Casket
Though The Golden Casket shows the veteran indie rockers at their most accessible and tuneful, a creative shift that started with 2004's Good News For People Who Love Bad News, they return to some of the experimental aspects that defined so much of their early work. Frontman Isaac Brock is steeped in optimism, cleverly weaving in his weirdness into the band's sweeping sentiments.
Juan Edgardo Rodríguez reviews... -
St. Vincent Daddy's Home
Daddy's Home soundtracks St. Vincent's father’s release from a medium-security prison for a high profile, white-collar crime, and the album welcomes him with a pastiche of the 1970’s acts he raised her on.
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Erika de Casier Sensational
On her 4AD debut, Erika de Casier channels a very specific part of the world at a very specific time.
Joe Rivers hops in the time machine... -
Wolf Alice Blue Weekend
On their lush, expansive third LP, the North London quartet focus outward rather than inward—conveying their twentysomething unease in a way that's welcoming and not austere.
Juan Edgardo Rodríguez reviews... -
twenty one pilots Scaled and Icy
Given how much effort the Columbus, Ohio duo give into their album concepts, it's genuinely surprising how uninteresting their sixth LP sounds on the surface.
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Eric Church Heart & Soul
The Nashville-based country musician's triple album is a gamble in terms of length and ambition, filled with goofy experiments, clichés, his lovely voice, and some slightly awkward production.
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Sharon Van Etten epic Ten
The celebration of Sharon Van Etten's epic loses much of what makes the original great, but there are moments of revelation in these covers.
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Royal Blood Typhoons
On their tenacious third LP, the Brighton, UK duo lay down a danceable groove and stick by it—fusing pulverizing, pedal-driven fuzz over four-on-the-floor beats.
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SPIRIT OF THE BEEHIVE ENTERTAINMENT, DEATH
Getting lost in the Philadelphia trio's intersecting ideas is essential to the experience of their fourth album—and once you dive deeper into the hallucinatory lyrical content, you begin to get a better sense of their singular vision.
Juan Edgardo Rodríguez reviews...
