Album Review: Exitmusic – Passage Ace Ubas·May 31, 2012When you’re in two different forms of artistic media, there’s a chance that one may be more recognizable...Album Reviews
Album Review: Laurel Halo – Quarantine Josh Becker·May 30, 2012Abstract pop seems like an oxymoron. The latter implies a basic format (like the verse-chorus-verse structure) or at...Album Reviews
Album Review: Black Mountain – Year Zero Daniel Griffiths·May 30, 2012I’ll admit it, when I first heard that Black Mountain was going to be soundtracking a movie my...Album Reviews
Album Review: Japandroids – Celebration Rock Brendan Frank·May 29, 2012Why do we celebrate? It might just be our most universal ritual, but it’s also unique to time,...Album ReviewsRecommended
Album Review: oOoOO – Our Loving Is Hurting Us EP Will Ryan·May 29, 2012The impulse is to cast off oOoOO as a producer too tied to a bygone buzzed-about electronic music...Album Reviews
Album Review: The Cribs – In the Belly of the Brazen Bull David Wolfson·May 29, 2012It’s been over ten years since the release of Is This It turned The Strokes’ brand of guitar...Album Reviews
Album Review: Niki & The Dove – Instinct Will Ryan·May 25, 2012Some of the best pop songs exist in subtleties and single moments. A song might not justify its...Album ReviewsRecommended
Album Review: Father John Misty – Fear Fun Arthur Velez·May 24, 2012At about the three-quarter mark of the slow-burning closing track of Father John Misty’s “debut” album, Fear Fun,...Album Reviews
Album Review: Mount Eerie – Clear Moon Colin Joyce·May 23, 2012The darkness that pervades the whole of Clear Moon is familiar territory for Phil Elverum. Even before his...Album ReviewsRecommended
Album Review: Lower Dens – Nootropics Ray Finlayson·May 23, 2012Nootropics is definitely the kind of album that needs to be taken with a little perspicacity. While the...Album Reviews
