We weren’t sure if Madonna could surprise us anymore. Until she did.
The album is another triumph of emotional generosity from the most humane and vital rock group of our generation.
Unfortunately, Nathan Williams half-asses his leap from the collapsing edifice of the lo-fi scene.
jj is much less obsessed with ambient diversions on jj n°2 than on its successor, preferring to emphasize beats over tunes.
While InDRUpendence Day may play at toughness, adhering to today’s fashions as completely as the group did to the simpler whims of the ’90s, it never postures.
Spot the Difference gives Squeeze fans a chance to catch the variations between some old songs and their newly recorded versions.
Many Colored Kite is resolutely marked with sure signs of experience and skill.
Lazers never Die accomplishes more than most of the year’s full-length hip-hop records.
Caldwell does her damndest to sell the terrible material with conviction and sincerity.
The album is titanic in scope, filled with offbeat wordplay, and entangled instruments.
Rick Ross’s work too often comes off as a conspicuous mishandling of both assets and signifiers.
Richard Ashcroft is far too young to be calling time on his career just yet.
Anderson’s songs have always undercut the typically patriarchal element of social and political clout.
100 Miles from Memphis proves that Sheryl Crow may have an affinity for Southern soul, but she doesn’t necessarily have an aptitude for it.
The closest It’ll Be Better comes to succeeding is the title track, and unsurprisingly, it’s also the album’s simplest song.
We’re in this melted polar cap together, and like Deepwater Horizon, it gets more ruined by oil all the time.
If Archive 2003 – 2006 is at times a runaway mess, it’s consistently a beautiful one.
Long Shadow of the Paper Tiger is likely the most unabashedly fun album since Caribou’s Swim.
Today’s computer piloting polymath is yesterday’s acoustic guitarist.
Whatever his genre, Sebastian Blanck proves to be an adept compiler, creating arresting collages from carefully selected parts.
Butterfly House is without doubt the band’s most mature work to date, and perhaps they’re most polished too.