The songs rarely cohere into anything greater than the sum of their individual parts.
I’m with You is a case of an old dog learning a few new tricks.
Male Bonding cleans up its ragged punk act ever so slightly on their second album.
Luke Jenner and company turned in a remarkably assured performance, without any of the out-of-practice awkwardness one might’ve expected.
It’ll be a shame if radio doesn’t take the album as a perfect opportunity to correct its gender imbalance.
Long Line of Heartaches should earn Smith a place alongside genre vets like Loretta Lynn and Johnny Cash.
The album, despite production work from the normally conspicuous Beck, scarcely strays from what’s become the Stephen Malkmus template.
The R.E.D. Album may be the most distilled expression yet of Game’s manifold insecurities.
Those songs are special because they preserve a Patti Smith who until very recently seemed to be lost to time.
It’s difficult for a band to sell themselves as sexy firebrands when they can’t muster enough magnetism to last for at least one whole album.
We thought this was the best way to pay tribute to the video.
You Are All I See succeeds as an evolutionary step beyond Active Child’s synth-drenched origins.
The album is a clear move away from the darkwave dance pack and into musical nonconformity.
Jay-Z and Kanye West have actually managed to record a song that sounds like a coke-bender.
Bridges fully inhabits his vocal turns, giving each song a clear point of view and real sense of character.
The War on Drugs’s ‘Slave Ambient’ comes on like a rainy summer day in the rust belt.
The album’s powerhouse production turns out to be, as with some of West’s own work, the ultimate ace in the hole.
With Family of Love, Dom has deviated slightly from the Next Big Thing playbook.
If only Lizzy Grant were actually born Lana Del Rey.
Glacial Glow’s emotional core is grounded in “Alone Star” and “Tuesday Before Poland,” which evoke the alienation of urban life.
There’s nothing on the album to make it stand out from the rest of the Music Row assembly line.