On The Whole Love, Wilco isn’t dealing in portions or halves.
This year, the festival boasted an enormous lineup of over 150 bands, almost evenly divided between regional upstarts and established artists.
With Family of Love, Dom has deviated slightly from the Next Big Thing playbook.
For the most part, All of You is virtually indistinguishable from Caillat’s previous work.
With The Light of the Sun, Scott reasserts herself as a relevant voice in modern R&B.
While like-minded bands fumble around with weighty concepts and overlong arrangements, the Black Lips remain purveyors of instant, unpretentious gratification.
The album is a collection of predictable covers, haphazard originals, and one re-rendering of a 10-year-old Pearl Jam track.
Okkervil River’s sixth album is an excellent, reductionist work, the sound of a band attempting to locate the visceral core of their craft by submerging every other element in noise.
With In Love with Oblivion, Crystal Stilts assert themselves as a unique presence in the modern noise-pop revival.
The harrowing character sketches and wry declarations of self-loathing that populated the Mountain Goats’s previous releases are in short supply here.