The Leeds junglist tells a story in the wrong order, in the right way.
The album may not have any standout hooks to give him another inescapable radio hit, but it does suggest that DeGraw has finally found a style that suits him well.
It might not be the future of music, but this is music you can swing your doorknockers to.
Although a slow, not quite graceful recovery, Grace/Wastelands is also a stab at realized potential.
The band’s affinity for harmony and subtle melodicism elevates Skye over heavier exercises in drop-tuned brutality.
Enemy Mine is a relentlessly curious, ever-shifting album.
Hazards of Love personifies potentially workable songs eaten away by overwhelmingly ill-conceived ambition.
Jones may have a newfound credit as a successful playwright, but fans have little to worry about the Harlem rapper going artistic or high-minded.
For Chico Fellini, the use of rhythm is a key element to their charisma.
The album is inept in its contemptuous abuse of almost every basic element of song craft and performance.
The album brings DOOM, warts and all, back into our lives, and shouldn’t that be enough?
Hilson needs to do much more than pick fights with Beyoncé to justify her transition from hook girl to solo star.
Carolina often comes across as a strident stab at the mainstream commercial acceptance that has thus far eluded the singer-songwriter.
The album sustains a remarkable degree of structural tension over the course of its brief song cycle.
With their latest, the Yeah Yeah Yeahs full-on metamorphose.
Naked Willie is an act of historical revisionism.
The words are flatter, the music is more generically attractive, and maybe we’re all getting a little too old for this club.
Never has there been a more blatant case of false advertising than the title of Madeleine Peyroux’s fifth album, Bare Bones.
Free’s production team Dave Warrin, Tim Kvasnosky, and Miguel Migs are, unfortunately, addicted to butta.
If every decade needs its Seattle scene, then Glasgow might just fit today’s bill.
Cursive, Omaha’s little band that could, did.