The album proves that the band can show off their softer underbelly just as skillfully as they do their fangs.
The album could have benefited from more free-flowing song structures and unconventional arrangements.
The album captures a genuinely contemporary flair that the band hasn’t successfully embodied since the late 1970s.
The band’s sixth album is eminently professional but contains few surprises.
As it turns out, Colter Wall doesn’t just sing cowboy songs, he lives them.
Throughout, Lewis grapples with the quirks and perils of relationships with humor and honesty.
The irony of the album’s gussied-up nature is that its best songs are often the most direct.
Produced by Jeff Tweedy, the singer-songwriter's latest album is limber, breezy, and full of joy.
The album cycles through an eclectic range of influences, from grunge to shoegaze to country-style balladry.
The album abounds in adventurous new tangents seamlessly integrated with rocking, crowd-pleasing thrills.
If this is the start of the band’s long fade out, here’s hoping those faders don’t come down too quickly.
The album is quaveringly beautiful and intimate, reflecting the deeply personal nature of its songs.
The band's first album in nine years sounds unmistakably contemporary without veering into flavor-of-the-month pandering.
The band’s third album is an exhilarating power-pop tour de force, replete with bristling guitar riffs and infectious harmonies.
The Aussie singer-songwriter proves that she’s an unflinchingly personal lyricist who can also slam some rocking hooks together.
The musician's second album in three months exists at a blurry intersection of inscrutability and openness.
Economical hooks and ironic distance have been supplanted by a return to grandiose multi-part suites and painful sincerity.
Much of Jack White's Fear of the Dawn finds the musician acting as a sort of mad scientist.
If there’s a formula to figuring Destroyer's Labyrithinitis out, it lies within Dan Bejar’s enigmatic mind.
With Life on Earth, Hurray for the Riff Raff has achieved something truly enviable: a fresh start.