The singer has teased a new release date for the set and announced a companion album to boot.
McMorrow’s smart approach to his craft and his exquisite voice counterbalance what Early in the Morning lacks in originality and refinement.
White Wilderness is the first of Vanderslice’s albums to sound like its production, rather than its songs, is the driving force.
The album plays like a copy of a copy.
There Are Rules aims for an aggressive aesthetic, but it ends up as mostly empty bluster as the Get Up Kids tries to put their pieces back together.
Arcade Dynamics may be the best teaser for Panda Bear’s upcoming Tomboy yet.
Perhaps one day Bejar will cut an album for the unconverted, but Kaputt is not that album.
Kills shines during the moments when she gets to strut out.
This is a work of obviously borrowed ideas from a group highly capable of succeeding with their own.
Madlib is easily the most idiosyncratic producer hip-hop has ever seen, and when he’s paired with the right rapper, the results are peerless.
If only Mike Ness was as concerned with keeping his own sound fresh as with giving patronizingly modern “updates” on the work of his forbears.
Dye It Blonde is drained of the fuzzy promise that defined the band’s debut.
No one reveres British culture more so than its own working class, playing up to their uncouth stereotype with a dogged pride.
Little Dragon seesaws from bright to heavy textures, yet Nagano never gets sucked into the drama.
To the Decemberists’s credit, they’re committed to the idea of challenging themselves.
Is it fair to say that many of us attach no actual “nostalgia,” in the strictest sense of the word, to the singles of the 1990s?
Red Barked Tree is as quietly diverse as 2008’s Object 47.
The lo-fi production lacks the overall punch of similar albums by Jimmy Eat World and Guster, but the Davenports still get their point across.
Dann Huff’s predictably too-slick production does the duo no favors.
If this isn’t just meta indie meant to entertain folks who love indie rock and not a whole lot else, then what is it?
With this mixtape, M.I.A. has made great strides toward liberating her music from herself.