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Album Review: Half Waif – The Caretaker

Chase McMullen·March 27, 2020

Nandi Rose refuses to be pinned down. It may feel like a clumsy metaphor for an album that...

Rob Hakimian·March 26, 2020

Ever since arriving as leader of Cymbals Eat Guitars in 2009 with Why There Are Mountains, Joe D’Agostino...

Kyle Kohner·March 25, 2020

Given how distressingly personal and sobering his work has become, it is more difficult than ever to refer...

Todd Dedman·March 24, 2020

Communication is at the core of Fountain, the exquisite and preternatural debut album from Berlin-based American vocalist Lyra...

Kyle Kohner·March 24, 2020

From Grimes’ Miss Anthropocene to Lil Uzi Vert’s Eternal Atake to Soccer Mommy’s color theory, 2020 has already...

Joshua Pickard·March 20, 2020

From the opening moments of Birthmarks, the latest release from Irish singer and former JJ72 member Hilary Woods,...

Joshua Pickard·March 10, 2020

There’s something oddly comforting in the rattling breakbeats, drum and bass mechanics and metallic electronics stomping, clipping, and...

Rob Hakimian·March 8, 2020

Sophie Allison is only 22, but upon listening to her second studio album, Color Theory, you’d be forgiven...

Ray Finlayson·December 20, 2013

The phrase “Pulaski at Night” first appeared in Andrew Bird’s music fifteen years ago, back on his debut...

Ray Finlayson·December 18, 2013

“TRUE POP” – a phrase worth taking a moment to dissect. Of the two words, “POP” is the...