Reviews

Review & Stream: Dr. Dog – Be the Void

A vivid rendition of an ageless sound with fresh flourishes.

Review & Stream: The 2 Bears – Be Strong

“Pop-hip-house.” “Liquid-bmore-house-step.” “Rave-garage.” Just when you thought the UK house scene could not possibly concoct anymore arbitrary sub-genres, along frolics our faux ursine duo drafting an indietronica doctrine for world peace.

Review & Stream: A Place To Bury Strangers – Onwards to the Wall

Onwards to the Wall is loud, it’s really loud, it’s five walls of sound that each feel like they’re collapsing in a slow-motion earthquake.

Full Stream: Frankie Rose – Interstellar

Once a Dum Dum Girl, a Vivian Girl and even a Crystal Stilt, Frankie Rose is now doing her own thing, doing it darn well. On February 21 she will…

Review & Stream: Air – Le Voyage Dans La Lune

This is the album we’ve been waiting for, Air’s grand return to the cosmos, the proper follow-up to Moon Safari. 

Review: Die Antwoord – TEN$ION

Ten$ion presents a group that, for the moment, has eschewed evolution in order to enjoy its transition to success.

Full Stream: Tennis – Young & Old

Tennis’ follow-up to last year’s lovely Cape Dory isn’t out until February 14, but the band has put the entire record up on SoundCloud to stream. Enjoy.

Full Stream: Islands – A Sleep & A Forgetting

A full week before its February 14th release date, Islands’ newest record, A Sleep & A Forgetting is available online for your streaming pleasure. If you haven’t already, grab a…

Review & Stream: Sharon Van Etten – Tramp

Sharon Van Etten’s tender third LP, Tramp, produced by The National’s Aaron Dessner, is the best of this young year.

Review & Stream: of Montreal – Paralytic Stalks

Once again, Kevin Barnes gives us crystallizing glimpses of raw emotion, smothered with superfluous noise. Taken in context, this album may be his best work yet. Take it out, you might as well be blind to what you’re staring right at.

Review & Stream: Lindstrøm – Six Cups of Rebel

Some moments are stronger than others, but Lindstrøm has created really fun, relistenable electro-disco that tenaciously refuses to be boring or predictable.

Sébastien Tellier: New Album, My God Is Blue, Hear New Song

Sébastien Tellier will follow-up 2008′s Daft Punk-produced Sexuality with My God is Blue, due out on April 16. Of the album, Tellier has this to say: “Don’t listen to my…

New Build – Yesterday Was Lived and Lost 4-Track Album Teaser

You know about New Build, the brand new project of Hot Chip’s Al Doyle and Felix Martin and their sometime producer Tom Hopkins – you’ve no doubt heard their collaborations…

Rufus Wainwright Announces Mark Ronson Produced Album: Out of the Game

Rufus Wainwright has announced, Out of the Game, his 7th studio album. The album will be produced by Mark Ronson, who is best known for his work with Amy Winehouse…

Album Review: ScHoolboy Q – Habits & Contradictions

It would be difficult to come up with a better title for ScHoolboy Q’s second album, Habits & Contradictions. It’s a calming album at times, but leaves the listener’s pulse racing, even after 17 tracks and over an hour of music.

Jack White Announces New Album: Blunderbuss, Hear New Single

A year after The White Stripes call it quits, Jack White announces ‘Blunderbuss.’ Listen to first single “Love Interruption” now.

Album Review: Leonard Cohen – Old Ideas

Thank heavens these old ideas never cease to create art worth learning from.

Madonna Details New Album, MDNA

Pop’s iconic fairy godmother, Madonna, fresh off an unexpected win at the Golden Globes for Best Original Song, has offered details for her forthcoming 12th studio album, MDNA. The album,…

Album Review: Lana Del Rey – Born To Die

Most people — let’s call them The Lucky Ones — live in blissful ignorance of Lana Del Rey and the insufferable debate she has ignited. If you know her name, you’ve already entered the fray, however unwittingly.

Album Review: Porcelain Raft – Strange Weekend

Porcelain Raft’s jockeying between maximalist, synthesized chamber indie, hazy dance music, borderline art-dubstep chopped-and-screwed beats and drones, and mixtape-closing reverby guitar pop make Strange Weekend endlessly compelling, fascinatingly layered, and never predictable.

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