Favorite Albums

Review: El-P – Cancer For Cure

Cancer For Cure, El-P’s first album in five years, is his most complete solo effort to date.

Download: Nicolas Jaar’s Essential Mix

Stop whatever you're doing and listen Nicolas Jaar's remarkable two-hour long Essential Mix for BBC Radio 1.

Santigold Master of My Make-Believe cover

Review: Santigold – Master of My Make-Believe

The whole world is eagerly watching, tweeting, ruminating over Master Of My Make-Believe, another long awaited memento of why we fell in love with Santigold; a fresh beat to greet the encroaching summer.

Review: Lower Dens – Nootropics

Lower Dens’ first album, Twin Hand Movement, was a fantastic collection of songs that established the band’s ability to plunge from carefully crafted rock melodies into psychedelic moments of dark beauty; somehow, Nootropics is able to dive even deeper.

Review: Toro y Moi – June 2009

Raw tracings of indie yesteryear to next summer’s next big thing.

Review: Death Grips – The Money Store

It feels like something new and it should come with an “I Survived The Money Store” t-shirt.

Review: Jack White – Blunderbuss

Blunderbuss is outstanding, Jack White’s finest and most consistent work to date.

Review: Moonface – With Siinai: Heartbreaking Bravery

With Siinai: Heartbreaking Bravery is Spencer Krug’s most ambitious effort yet.

Review: Spiritualized – Sweet Heart Sweet Light

What elevates Sweet Heart Sweet Light to magnum opus status is the best parts are unexpected — and gigantic.

Review: Lotus Plaza – Spooky Action at a Distance

Spooky Action at a Distance is a revelatory record in the most literal sense of the word.

Review: Alabama Shakes – Boys And Girls

Boys And Girls is really a tour de force like no other. It’s not time-warp, but instead sounds like a the concoction several decades in the making; it’s chronologically ambiguous.

Review/Stream: New Build – Yesterday Was Lived and Lost

Considering complex pop-music has almost become an oxymoron, this album is a much needed reminder of what it can sound like.

Review: Chromatics – Kill For Love

These Streets Will Never Look The Same. Birds of Paradise. A Matter of Time. No Escape. A few song titles off Chromatics excruciatingly-awaited LP, Kill For Love.

Review: Bear In Heaven – I Love You, It’s Cool

With longtime bassist/keys player Sadek Bazarra leaving to focus on his graphic design ambitions Bear in Heaven are tasked with navigating the “spiky psych-prog tendencies” and “Southern rock spirit” spectrum bestowed by critics with one less astronaut.

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