Music Reviews
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Ashley Monroe The Blade
Ashley Monroe just keeps getting better with every heartbreak.
Luiza Lodder likes what she hears... -
Iron And Wine & Ben Bridwell Sing Into My Mouth
Two titans of indie rock join forces for a full-length collaborative debut and series of live dates. Music aside, the name on the billing gets a 1 out of 10. Why not Band of Bearded Horses or Kiss Each Other Clean All The Time? Music included, it's a case of what should have been.
Ben Jones reviews... -
HEALTH Death Magic
The Los Angeles noise makers return with their first full-length in six years, a more accessible offering in which they make themselves more vulnerable by approaching feeling with a more synthetic bent.
Juan Edgardo Rodríguez revews... -
Titus Andronicus The Most Lamentable Tragedy
With their fourth album, The Most Lamentable Tragedy, Titus Andronicus stretches that style to its limits, a 93-minute, 29-song rock opera chronicling its narrator’s struggle with mental illness.
Brad Hanford reviews... -
Miguel Wildheart
The LA vocalist refuses to take the easy way out on his first record for three years.
Joe Rivers reviews... -
Tame Impala Currents
Currents is the epitome of Kevin Parker’s ability to render a serenely beautiful image over a much darker proposition, and a celebration of his incredible prowess in a recording studio. The paranoia, withdrawal and isolation that until now have been the cornerstones of Tame Impala's sound take a back seat, with Parker sculpting over a canvas more suited to his current psyche.
Carl Purvis is in awe... -
EZTV Calling Out
The Brooklyn trio's debut sounds like a traditional power pop record, delightfully out of time, and never does one track eclipse the other in an effort to keep things uniform and consistent.
Juan Edgardo Rodríguez reviews... -
Vince Staples Summertime '06
The Long Beach rapper's debut finds him developing an outsider resilience in the midst of his troubled adolescence, and dramatizes those disenfranchised days in an episodic rather than thematic way.
Juan Edgardo Rodríguez reviews... -
Muse Drones
On album number seven, Devon rock trio Muse explore themes of dystopia and indoctrination through the medium of guitar riffs. You know, the usual stuff.
Joe Rivers journeys into the unknown... -
Kacey Musgraves Pageant Material
Kacey Musgraves proves once more she's a voice unlike any other in the country music scene. Her second album, Pageant Material, brims over with individuality, even when things get a little repetitive.
Luiza Lodder is hoping for another ''Blowin' Smoke''...
