The Leeds junglist tells a story in the wrong order, in the right way.
Ruminations is prolific singer-songwriter Conor Oberst’s rawest and most earnest album in years.
The album wields the Orb’s trademark synths, samples, and stray noises toward a more personal end.
The album’s production is as versatile as Brown’s voice, though it favors off-kilter intensity.
These Systems Are Failing too often obscures Moby’s message with abstractions and platitudes.
Revolution Radio manages to survey almost the entire bag of tricks Green Day has pulled from over the past 25 years.
Friends so incessantly refers to its seasons-change premise that its emotional impact is blunted by album’s end.
BROOKZILL’S cultural synthesis couldn’t be accomplished if the instrumentation wasn’t so consummately realized.
Three serves as a progression for a duo that takes vivid inner turmoil and projects it outward.
Enjoying the Pixies’s sixth album, Head Carrier, is mostly a matter of managing expectations.
The hooks on WALLS are surprisingly hard to come by for an album this ostensibly geared toward radio.
22, A Million synthesizes archaic and future styles to address and remedy the ailments of the present.
Blood flows freely on Blood Bitch, a carefully composed collage album with a pronounced focus on body horror.
Shape Shift with Me reexamines the dynamics of power, place, and belonging.
By grounding Sonderlust in the duality of love’s joy and pain, Kishi Bashi achieves transcendence.
American Band is concise, laser-focused, and brutally efficient, lyrically and musically.
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Primal Scream’s Screamadelica is a reckoning of past and future injected with real-life rock debauchery.
Skeleton Tree is at once Cave’s darkest, most emotionally devastating work to date, and his most painfully vulnerable.
The album too often feels half-baked, with Dupieux stirring up interesting ideas only to tire of them too quickly.
As the album unfolds, the band’s experimental impulses show themselves, but in a pithier fashion.