Music Reviews
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Darkside Spiral
Spiral, the comeback LP by Chilean-born electronic musician Nicolas Jaar and American multi-instrumentalist Dave Harrington is an alchemical concoction of beats, textures, sonic flourishes, and melodies that sound like they were recorded in a world that had no precedent.
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Inhaler It Won’t Always Be Like This
The Dublin quartet’s promising debut album combines dynamic rhythmic energy with soaring romantic touches and youthful melodrama.
Juan Edgardo Rodríguez reviews... -
Charlotte Day Wilson Alpha
The hotly-tipped Toronto singer-songwriter releases her debut album of soul, lovers rock, R&B, and torch songs, backed by the lush instrumentation that's become her hallmark.
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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.
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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.
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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.
Ethan Gordon reviews...
