Haywire: I Don’t Wanna Say Goodbye Album Review
For decades, aspiring bands were given the same advice: If you want to get noticed, play as many…
Cara Delevingne: Not Normal Album Review
The problem is, there’s just so much going on. “Lights Up” and “The Mask” have striking melodies (and,…
Greg Freeman: All Set the Bone Album Review
In Greg Freeman’s music, every passing second is an emergency, another last chance not to be alone forever.…
Emily A. Sprague: Cyano Album Review
Anna Atkins, the 19th century botanist and photographer whose Photographs of British Algae: Cyanotype Impressions is widely regarded…
The Drin: I Lost My Way for Centuries Album Review
Perhaps it’s just a strange coincidence that the leader of the Drin bears a name that reads like…
After: Fell Asleep in the Sun Album Review
Graham Epstein and Justine Dorsey are a match made in platonic-friendship heaven. The members of After—their anachronistic “trip-pop”…
Emma Ruth Rundle: These Killing Times Album Review
Emma Ruth Rundle is discovering that there’s more to life than loneliness. Across a decade-plus of solo recordings,…
Beck: Ride Lonesome Album Review
Beck rose to fame in the early 1990s as an absurdist poet who mashed together blues, folk, and…
Neil Young / The Chrome Hearts: Second Song Album Review
Second Song is an act of hypnosis. For all of Neil Young’s enduring and endlessly regenerative influence, that…
Carly Rae Jepsen: Day and Night Album Review
It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single Carly Rae Jepsen record must be in want of…
Curbside Lambsear: Put Rings on All My Fingers to Weigh Down My Hands EP Album Review
Curbside Lambsear means nothing. As a band name, it’s drawn from a photo Magdalena McLean posted on Instagram…
Bloc Party: Anatomy of a Brief Romance Album Review
In Before Midnight, the final film in Richard Linklater’s Before Sunrise trilogy, Julie Delpy’s character poses a question…