And so the Mark “Eels/E” Everett train continues to rumble deeper down its quixotic tunnel.
Logos is the first time that an Atlas Sound project has cohered as something fully outside of Deerhunter.
The best moments come when Wolf holds on to his characteristic black humor while descending into mellifluousness.
King of Jeans sees the band for the first time failing to avoid passages of power-chord monotony and instances of off-target ridicule.
Twista remains an acquired taste, and if you haven’t acquired that taste yet, now is probably not the time to try.
The truth is not that Callahan is spending years cowering on one side of the shadow line in between crossovers.
One consolation Together offers is the fact these songs are going to absolutely kill when played live.
Rick Ross cannot expect anyone to take the title of his third album, Deeper Than Rap, with even a grain of credulity.
Fortunately for Kanye, but unfortunately for the rest of us, most of Living Thing follows in the vein of “Nothing to Worry About.”
The album brings DOOM, warts and all, back into our lives, and shouldn’t that be enough?
Love vs. Money hardly shies away from the attitude that The-Dream has entered the realm of pop royalty.
Hold Time is further proof that M. Ward provides a powerful jolt to what might otherwise be a tired genre.
Noble Beast offers its fair share of dazzle.
In a December unusually barren of high-profile rap releases, 60 minutes of Ghostface Killah is hardly something to complain about.
Does anyone want to party with Common?
There must have been a moment when Kanye West was actually content with being the most potent and essential personality in hip-hop.
On The Renaissance, Q-Tip’s beats glimmer with a sort of Foreign Exchange by way of Large Professor brightness.
Backpack rappers and political conservatives may have a lot more in common than you think.
Attention Deficit may be one of the best rap releases of the year, even while it lacks the focus of a central persona.
The album arrives with a host of existential questions that Bradford Cox and Deerhunter have entertained before but have never fully answered.