Favorite Albums

Review: THEESatisfaction – awE naturalE

THEESatsifaction have put all of the creative energy that has been swirling in them and between them into awE naturalE. It’s a pride-infused, soulful space journey that demands as much hip shaking as it does poetry analysis.

Review: The Shins – Port of Morrow

Port of Morrow is the fourth and most potent Shins album. These songs are nearly all chorus, big and upfront where his first two records were twisty and plucky.

Review: Daniel Rossen – Silent Hour / Golden Mile

The more I let the nuances of this stunning EP trickle through my porous heart, the more holes it heals. Stark requiems rarely sound this triumphant.

Review: Burial – Kindred EP

Burial pins down the unsettling elements of everyday urban life — the anonymity, the disorienting movement, the shared loneliness — and communicates them, nearly wordlessly, in a way that makes them seem simultaneously familiar and foreboding

Review: The Men – Open Your Heart

With Open Your Heart, The Men’s virtuosic treatment of post-punk hardcore has exponentially expanded.

Review: Bruce Springsteen – Wrecking Ball

Wrecking Ball, Bruce Springsteen’s 17th studio album, is his angriest and most vital work since 1982′s Nebraska.

Review & Stream: Andrew Bird – Break It Yourself

Andrew Bird releases are always discussed but how good they are doesn’t necessarily make headlines because, well, what else would you expect? “Andrew Bird Makes Another Good Album”. Yea, no shit.

Review & Stream: School of Seven Bells – Ghostory

Ghostory is the third record from SVIIB, but their first since the departure of vocalist Claudia Deheza – for “personal reasons” – in 2010. How have they survived? They’ve thrived.

Review & Stream: Perfume Genius – Put Your Back N 2 It

An album that stands apart not only in evident terms of the revealing lyrical content, but in its plaintive style.

Review & Stream: Grimes – Visions

In a zeitgeist where we’ve started valuing repetitive minimalism in electronic music, Grimes really sounds like the chaotic and ultimately irresistible future. The kind where everything is happening, all of the time.

Review: John Talabot – fIN

It might be February now, but bring little warmth into your ears with the help of John Talabot and his stunning debut.

Review & Stream: Sleigh Bells – Reign of Terror

How do you catch thunder in a bottle twice?

Review & Stream: Tennis – Young & Old

Young and Old is the perfect sophomore album. Tennis has followed its newlywed gem Cape Dory with an album that does everything exactly right.

Review & Stream: Islands – A Sleep & A Forgetting

A Sleep & A Forgetting is the work of a seasoned, matured Nick Diamonds, who may be over the hype and is ready to sincerely share his true artistry through honest, simple songs.

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