The band again serves up a variety of memorable hooks and abstract, knife-to-the-heart lyrics.
The album is a welcome, if predictable, reminder of the days when the guitar-driven verse-chorus song was king.
The album offers a musical experience in which dark emotions become sublimated through rousing power pop.
We’ve collected a list of the 25 greatest songs in the band's dauntingly huge catalogue.
Robert Pollard is still coming up with new twists on his patented brand of anthemic power pop.
Many of the album’s best moments find the band in near-prog terrain.
Cool Planet qualifies as ample reason to give thanks for the continued reunion of one of indie rock’s most iconic bands.
This year, the festival boasted an enormous lineup of over 150 bands, almost evenly divided between regional upstarts and established artists.