Reviews

Review: Suckers – Candy Salad

Although Candy Salad is more consistent than Wild Smile, most tracks rely more on catchy hooks and opening licks while the rest of the song is more repetitive.

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: M. Ward – A Wasteland Companion

A Wasteland Companion is a slight but very enjoyable album that has moments of bliss along with moments of inoffensive filler.

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: Future Unlimited – Future Unlimited EP

Future Unlimited demonstrate a willingness to experiment in order to achieve fuller expressions of complex emotions, and that is to be applauded.

Review: Nicki Minaj – Pink Friday: Roman Reloaded

Nicki’s 2010 debut Pink Friday felt “guarded” in her mind. Now we get a full frontal 22-deluxe edition track assault on what her reality looks and feels 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: Willis Earl Beal – Acousmatic Sorcery

Acousmatic Sorcery is less a collection of songs and more an experiment in sound-making, as if Willis Earl Beal walks to and fro, picking up instruments and figuring out how to use them make something like music.

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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