The album signals the sharp return of a group that would like you to pretend they never left.
Legend has proven himself a shiny vessel for this kind of chic, socially conscious neo-soul, but also a transparent one.
Harvest the Beast is free from filler and sentimentalism, each song overflowing its edges and sloshing into the next.
It seems like the prevailing ethos of Business Casual can be gleaned from the ridiculous guitar solo at the heart of “Night by Night.”
The band has established itself as consistently adept at melding inanity with seriousness via batshit songs that are gaudy while socially conscious.
A sharp wit is certainly buried somewhere beneath all the self-conscious mumbling that dominates the film’s discourse.
Perhaps the band’s most amazing quality has been their ability to establish their albums and live shows as twin founts for this freewheeling power.
Thank You for Your Love is the kind of slim, paltry offering that, in the old days, might have been compressed to fit a 7” single.
Mean Old Man may be a fundamentally lazy album, but it works in the right places.
Race to Nowhere hews too closely to the claims and protests of its student subjects to ever feel truly objective.
All Birds Say is worn down by its sluggishness and suffers overall from a surfeit of ineffectual good humor.
Hardships! is a defiant statement and one of the best albums to be released this year, despite the fact that it technically comes from 2009.
Tears Run Rings’s Distance literally picks up where the band’s previous album left off.
The album is a tug of war that often seems poised to turn into self-parody.
Blood Under the Bridge feels like a freight train bound straight from the fuzzy heart of the ’90s.
The Runaway may just be a stumble on the band’s road to maturity.
The House is a sporadically grand album that finds another talented artist rescued from mediocre pop oblivion.
While InDRUpendence Day may play at toughness, adhering to today’s fashions as completely as the group did to the simpler whims of the ’90s, it never postures.
Spot the Difference gives Squeeze fans a chance to catch the variations between some old songs and their newly recorded versions.
Many Colored Kite is resolutely marked with sure signs of experience and skill.