The band’s first album in a decade is more haunted than its arena-sized choruses suggest.
Music is chaos, in the sense that it’s usually ruled by random chance rather than any distinct system.
Anarchy, My Dear is one of Say Anything’s strongest musical statements to date.
There’s a thudding pulse that seems to reverberate out of the city itself.
When the Men set out to bring the noise, they prove as capable as ever.
Beach House seems to have known from the beginning what they wanted their music to sound like.
The Ting Tings give the impression that they’ve set out to fail deliberately, as some kind of juvenile attempt at punk.
Bowerbirds recorded The Clearing in Justin Vernon’s Wisconsin studio, and his influence on the album is evident.
The album plays like the antithesis of the work that’s cemented Daniel Rossen and his bandmates as the foremost purveyors of intricate.
In determining exactly what went wrong here, it’s useful to compare Wrecking Ball with Neil Young’s Living with War.
Justin Townes Earle leans on the brushed drums, Hammond B3 organ fills, and horn sections that signify Memphis soul.
If “All the Rowboats” isn’t the first song to anthropomorphize the contents of a museum, then it’s at least one of the best.
The focus of the album is once again electronics, but with the cynicism at a higher pitch than usual.
As for the just-burgeoning hip-hop genre, acts like Public Enemy and De La Soul not only had a conscience—they served as ours.
Agnostic Hymns doesn’t reserve its scorn for the 1%.
Ramona Gonzalez is undeniably a creature of indie-pop’s present.
Break It Yourself’s cover is a poor predictor of its contents: a series of thoughtful stream-of-conscious performances.
Like a Tumblr-meme version of “Get Together,” “Girl Gone Wild” is a rabbit hole of repurposed content.
The album is full of lovingly made knockoffs that point to the purer and smarter bluegrass that it’s imitating.
Andi Toma and Jan St. Werner continue to reexamine and expand on low-key IDM with every new release.
Stockholm’s Axel Willner has established himself as one of the most original voices in electronic music.