We caught up with the mewithoutYou frontman just hours before the band’s gig in St. Louis.
Although Currents is, in many ways, a showcase of difference, Tame Impala also toys with repetition as a unifying theme.
Its Stevens’s hope for illumination, rather than the blindness of grief, that lingers most.
My Favourite Faded Fantasy is Damien Rice’s most sonically cohesive album to date.
Interpol rearranges and reinvigorates familiar elements on El Pintor.
Even in its haziest moments, Hard Believer still preserves a pensiveness that keeps its sound from receding completely into the background.
First Aid Kit’s third album, Stay Gold, is less intimate than the duo’s previous effort.
The subtle surprises throughout Are We There indicate Van Etten’s ability to risk sentimentality without succumbing to it.
Ghost Stories isn’t the return to basics the band hinted at during interviews, nor does it need to be.
The Black Keys’ Turn Blue achieves a fully mature, cosmopolitan polish.
The Take Off and Landing of Everything gives us mostly familiar surroundings, but it makes for fine company.
With Past Life, Lost in the Trees has constructed a cinematic universe.
The sound of Fading West is all too familiar.
If the quest for the self amid rugged terrain and religious- and drug-tinged language is a time-honored American one, Jurado chronicles it guardedly, if not impersonally.
Fellow Travelers is a missive to those other bands trudging the tour circuit, and it’s an ambitious one that invites listeners to travel along.
The album isn’t entirely without energy, pathos, or creativity, but too many edges have been sanded off the Avett Brothers’ music.
Kings of Leon manages to muster enough rigor and discipline to keep Mechanical Bull kicking.
Arctic Monkeys’ AM is a carefully written and produced effort about the desultory careen of youth.
Review: Neko Case, The Worse Things Get, the Harder I Fight, the Harder I Fight, the More I Love You
While not strictly a confessional album, The Worse Things Get builds its momentum out of isolated, deeply personal moments.
Right Thoughts, Right Words, Right Action is a swaggering disco-rock album that doesn’t overstay its welcome.