Music Reviews
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Georgia Georgia
Georgia's lively self-titled is a fine blend of rhythmic eccentricity under a pop guise, seeking new ways to rewrite accessible song patterns with a decidedly forward-thinking thrust.
Juan Edgardo Rodríguez reviews... -
Stern Bone Turquoise
On the cusp of avant-garde abstraction and melodic accessibility, Stern's "alien pop" expansively mines a bleak and beautifully twisted sonic landscape for angularly anxious sounds of doom metal shrinking into slowcore and early psychedelic music.
Grant Phipps listens into the musical sinews of another galaxy... -
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...
