Essentially, About Group is at its best when order prevails over chaos.
Queerly irresistible in the same way one idly stares at road kill, the album is a masterpiece for those capable of stomaching it.
If you strip What Did You Expect from the Vaccines? of all the hype and expectation, it can be a reasonably enjoyable record.
The album is stuffed with the same exuberance that imparted classic status to the lion’s share of the group’s back catalog.
With W.A.R. (We Are Renegades), Pharoahe Monch is on spellbinding form, raging against society’s shortcomings and hip-hop’s countless ills.
It’s difficult to pinpoint exactly when Calvin Broadus lost his relevance.
In the game’s singe-player “Path of Champions” mode, which is essentially a lame ladder-climb through 10 increasingly difficult opponents, you’ll eventually find your attacks being countered more and more often.
Yakuza 4 is 20 mini-games rolled into one and glossed over with a rampant action-RPG and hyper-stylized crime theater.
If this is supposed to be ammunition in the battle for crowning hip-hop’s queen, then it isn’t a war worth winning.
Hotel Shampoo neatly channeling all of Rhys’s wonderful eccentricities into an intelligent pop record.
The in-ring dynamics have been polished rather than rewritten, with Fight Night Champion embracing a dual analog control scheme with even more conviction than 2009’s Round 4.
Beth Ditto’s first venture away from modern dance-punk pioneers Gossip should go some way to fortifying her status as an indie star.
The younger Gallagher’s troupe is in surprisingly strong form here, producing a more cohesive and engaging set of tracks than Oasis has in years.
The Fall is a love letter to—and a journey into—the heart of America.
No one reveres British culture more so than its own working class, playing up to their uncouth stereotype with a dogged pride.
Ghostface manages to steal the show despite the esteemed roll of guest spots.
Michael is a bit like Bruce Lee’s Game of Death.
The Atlanta-born songstress managed to offer an interminably absorbing show with a performance that belonged on a far bigger stage.
Whether you’re playing Spot the Sample or actually cutting a rug, All Day is a great deal of fun.
To simply travel across this beautifully designed terrain is a pleasure in itself, sprinting through crowds of Roman townsfolk or soaring above them as Ezio leaps across the city’s mile-high buildings.