Ultimately, Beacons is a funkier, more playful take on the band’s familiar sonic motifs.
Rhett Miller is an extraordinarily talented slacker.
Manners, is, from start to finish, the product of a full-band collaboration.
No one does foreboding like Isis.
Fans hoping for a late-career renaissance might be let down, but the duo isn’t slouching either.
Its best passages tend to last under a minute, waiting to be excavated from their droning, overlong surroundings.
Cohen’s voice has aged and deteriorated since Field Commander Cohen was recorded, and in some ways the new instrument is just as compelling as the old.
The band’s affinity for harmony and subtle melodicism elevates Skye over heavier exercises in drop-tuned brutality.
If the Republican Party was hobbled at the outset of the 2008 election, they were on the floor when it ended.
Too much of Face Control sounds like the unfinished blueprint of a much better album.
The album is tremendously affecting, but it’s also the first time a Thursday release isn’t an unambiguous improvement on its predecessor.
As the album proceeds, Morrissey simply sounds like a superior version of the singer he’s always been.
The person most significant in bringing our wayward executive branch under the rule of law will be incoming Attorney General Eric Holder.
Al Franken will probably begin his term with one of the lowest approval ratings in the Senate.