May 1, 2014 at 2:05 pm
Throwback Album Review: Hasil Adkins ‘Chicken Walk/ She’s Mine’
Hasil Adkins (Pronounced ‘Hassle’ sort of like those dudes who try and sell their hip hop album to you on Broadway) is a now ...
April 2, 2014 at 2:00 pm
Review: Cloud Nothings ‘Here and Nowhere Else’
Cloud Nothings’ trajectory has been astounding. They started as the sole vision of Dylan Baldi, and while they still certainly ...
April 2, 2014 at 12:30 pm
Review: Mac DeMarco ‘Salad Days’
“What mom don’t know has taken its toll on me,” sings 23-year-old Mac DeMarco on “Passing Out Pieces,” the lead single from ...
March 25, 2014 at 12:00 pm
Review: Future Islands ‘Singles’
It takes less than 30 seconds into the first song on Future Islands’ fourth album, Singles, to be confronted with the concept ...
March 18, 2014 at 10:00 am
Review: Perfect Pussy ‘Say Yes To Love’
Say Yes To Love is an album about noise. Perfect Pussy lean on distortion and feedback as much as any noise band has in recent ...
March 11, 2014 at 1:00 pm
Review: Black Lips ‘Underneath the Rainbow’
While many listeners primarily know Black Lips for their wild onstage antics, the band manifests its incredible raw energy through ...
March 4, 2014 at 8:51 pm
Review: Lushes ‘What Am I Doing’
Lushes is the compelling and moody brainchild of James Ardery and Joel Myers, and like their homophonic moniker (see: ...
March 3, 2014 at 1:04 pm
Review: Trust ‘Joyland’
The concept of Robert Alfons, a.k.a. Trust, naming his second album Joyland is a little bizarre on first blush. His first ...
February 26, 2014 at 10:00 am
Review: Beck ‘Morning Phase’
Released on the heels of a lengthy, six-year hiatus and billed as a “companion piece of sorts” to his lauded, intensely ...
February 25, 2014 at 3:00 pm
Review: Bleeding Rainbow ‘Interrupt’
Bleeding Rainbow’s Yeah Right, released just last year, encapsulated the sound of adolescence. It is pretty apparent from the ...
February 25, 2014 at 10:00 am
Review: St. Vincent’s Marvelous, Terrifying ‘St. Vincent’
St. Vincent’s eponymous fourth album has been hotly anticipated by, well, everyone, for quite some time now, and it does not ...
February 24, 2014 at 12:00 pm
Review: Wild Beasts ‘Present Tense’
Wild Beasts’s career has been one of consistency. They’ve been able to churn out endearing synth rock for more than eight years, ...
February 19, 2014 at 12:00 pm
Throwback Review: Sam Cooke ‘Live at the Harlem Square Club, 1963’
With the first warm pangs of springtime sweeping New York, there can be few albums so complimentary as Sam Cooke’s Live At The ...
February 18, 2014 at 11:00 am
Review: Phantogram ‘Voices’
Naming a pop album Voices leaves things pretty open-ended, just as naming a song “Fall in Love” does, so we have to assume that ...
February 18, 2014 at 10:00 am
Review: Angel Olsen ‘Burn Your Fire For No Witness’
William Faulkner, during a speech at the Nobel Prize banquet in 1950, emphasized the importance of writing about “The human heart ...
February 4, 2014 at 12:19 pm
Throwback Review: James Brown ‘Live at the Apollo’
If anything can bring back your cheery disposition during this miserable weather New York City has assaulted you with, its James ...
February 4, 2014 at 11:44 am
Review: +/- (Plus/Minus) ‘Jumping The Tracks’
Albums about emotional trauma are always about the end. If it’s a relationship, the album usually deals with the problems that ...
January 27, 2014 at 1:24 pm
Review: Dum Dum Girls ‘Too True’
When a band changes their style in a dramatic way, people are bound to take notice. Sometimes the simple act of the change completely ...
January 22, 2014 at 12:00 pm
Review: Warpaint ‘Warpaint’
The L.A. based Warpaint have released their eponymous second studio album following the successful release of their first full-length ...
January 21, 2014 at 3:32 pm
Review: Against Me! ‘Transgender Dysphoria Blues’
For long-time fans of Against Me!, Transgender Dysphoria Blues (out today) is an album that’s significant before the fact. All ...
January 16, 2014 at 4:00 pm
Throwback Review: Bob Dylan ‘Blood on the Tracks’
As far as throwback albums go, Bob Dylan’s 15th studio album Blood on the Tracks, released in 1975, stands alone. Unlike the ...
January 6, 2014 at 1:09 pm
Review: Angel Haze ‘Dirty Gold’
Angel Haze really wanted you to hear Dirty Gold. She even leaked it herself in order to force her label’s hand. I appreciate the ...
November 13, 2013 at 1:33 pm
Review: Blood Orange ‘Cupid Deluxe’
Dev Hynes as Blood Orange has always leaned toward a more classic sound. 2011’s Coastal Grooves had the energy of a synth pop ...
November 5, 2013 at 12:47 pm
Review: Swearin’ ‘Surfing Strange’
I don’t know if an album has started out as strongly as Surfing Strange this whole year. “Dust In The Gold Sack” ...
October 15, 2013 at 10:00 am
Review: The Dismemberment Plan ‘Uncanney Valley’
It’s safe to say that I grew up with The Dismemberment Plan. I was in high school when I first discovered them. They were my ...
October 8, 2013 at 10:00 am
Review: Parquet Courts ‘Tally All The Things That You Broke’
The use of the recorder on the first track of Tally All The Things That you Broke is worth the price of admission alone. Parquet ...
October 4, 2013 at 12:00 pm
Review: Shark? ‘Savior’
Savior is an album about the grief that someone deals with after a break up. This isn’t a new concept. But the way ...
October 1, 2013 at 10:13 am
Review: HAIM’s ‘Days Are Gone’
Because you obviously need another writer telling you that HAIM is awesome, I am here to tell you the following: HAIM is awesome. The ...
September 18, 2013 at 1:11 pm
Review: Potty Mouth’s ‘Hell Bent’
Let’s talk about originality. In some cases, it can truly make or break an album. We oftentimes chastise bands either for going too ...
August 20, 2013 at 8:00 am
No Age Masters The Old Push And Pull In ‘An Object’
Alright, I’ll say it: this here album is a regular In-n-Out Burger. The fact that the reference occurred to me on a ...
August 13, 2013 at 2:23 pm
Making Jazz Cool Again with Nico Segal
Straight out of Chicago, Kids These Days’ trumpet player Nico Segal debuts his solo project Illasoul: Shades of Blue. By ...
August 13, 2013 at 8:00 am
Review: Washed Out Finds Reversion in Paracosm
While listening to Paracosm, Ernest Greene’s latest album as Washed Out, you notice how much it sounds like you are constantly ...
May 20, 2013 at 3:31 pm
The National’s ‘Trouble Will Find Me’ Finds the Sweet Spot
The hungry, weary, love-lorn masses are having a bit of a moment this week in light of The National’s much-anticipated new ...
May 20, 2013 at 3:23 pm
Impersonator by Majical Cloudz
It’s easy to find the beauty in a perfectly orchestrated, lushly composed album. It’s also easy to love an album with a ...
May 10, 2013 at 12:21 am
Review: Silence Yourself by Savages
In making Silence Yourself, Savages have brought back the echoes of a largely forgotten genre in the modern music landscape. While ...
April 23, 2013 at 4:42 pm
Review: Yeah Yeah Yeahs’ Mosquito
Mosquito is a strange album. There is no getting around that simple fact. It largely encompasses everything that Karen O, Nick ...
April 22, 2013 at 1:18 pm
Review: Fall in Love with Charli XCX’s ‘True Romance’
If it were possible to see sound, then Charli XCX’s highly anticipated debut album True Romance would probably look like the ...