Breaking Bad continues to fuss over small details and pick at new threads, even with the end looming.
Control is the operative element in Benoît Jacquot’s work, with the main caveat being that when someone has it, someone else does not.
Dirty Projectors is a group for a single-obsessed, shuffle-minded era.
While his classic hyperbolic visual style is back in force, Oliver Stone can’t bother to muster any of his usual righteous anger.
Rejuvenation may aspire to a comeback, but it’s a lukewarm effort from an MC who likely has nowhere to go but down.
While Kristian Matsson’s music is never that interesting, it at least remains solidly propulsive and catchy.
Too often the album glides on reputation when it should be tilting toward idiosyncrasy.
The film teases out the possibilities and perils of time travel without embroiling itself in the confusion inherent to the subject.
WIXIW pulses with a strange, inimitable energy.
In attempting to honor the sounds of the past, Young ends up turning them into toxic sludge.
An album as tour diary, Among the Leaves finds Sun Kil Moon as glumly introspective as ever.
The songs here are delicate traps that slink by on whispers of sex and menace, with big, cathartic moments sparingly sprinkled in.
On The Only Place, the band sounds like they’re struggling to come up with a new template.
There’s little sympathy granted to its characters, and the revelation of their hidden vices comes across like an increasingly mean series of punchlines.
While Nobody Else But You aspires to a kind of French Fargo, it forgets the primary qualities that made that film work.
While Dr Dee is no Parklife, it does contain kernels of classic Damon Albarn.
This is a great tribute to the grueling power of fatigue, an album that turns a dearth of ideas into a virtue.
It doesn’t hurt the album that there’s a healthy dose of mythology, both self-provided and past-rooted, to pad out its structure.
Polisse is about broken people, using their interactions with damaged institutions as fuel for their own cyclical struggles.
Jack White embarks on tangential excursions that have familiar roots but end up in unexpected places.