Green to Gold represents a mostly successful sonic and lyrical calming of the storm for The Antlers. Seven years after their last album, The…
sketchy. is a generous, insightful record and a welcome return to the grand balancing act of Tune-Yards’ finest work. The music that Merrill Garbus…
Is 4 Lovers both reminds of DFA’s appeal and evinces the diminishing results when they stray from their template. Death From Above 1979 seem…
Adult Mom’s latest is a lyrically-tight exploration of shared human bonds under the weight of a failed system. Adult Mom’s third record, Driver, brings…
Little Oblivions is a sonically expansive, linguistically mature step forward for Julien Baker. “Faith Healer,” the third track on Julien Baker’s latest album, Little Oblivions,…
Ignorance brings depth to Tamara Lindeman’s songwriting, working with The Weather Station for bigger production and grandiose performance. Oftentimes, the best solutions are also the…
Lunch in the Park is a tough-to-stomach, badly-mixed album that sees Sun Kil Moon ill-advisedly embrace for electro-ambient leanings. There’s a lesson to be learned…
Distractions isn’t the most high-profile release from Tindersticks, but it symbolizes a step in a bold direction for the band as they embark on their…
screen time may be considered only a side project for Thurston Moore, but its cinematic and emotional touchstones make the album an important work in…
By reuniting with producer Steve Albini for this new release, Cloud Nothings look to the past while continuing to pursue new avenues with The…
Buck Meek paints an emotionally potent self-portrait on the introspective Two Saviors. Buck Meek follows up his 2018 self-titled solo release and a considerably…
This sample-heavy team-up between Madlib and Four Tet manages to showcase both their talents while creating something sonically unlike anything they could have made…
Lopatin’s patchwork panoply of snippets and songs in collision is kaleidoscopic, peaceful, and placating. The purloined production of Daniel Lopatin’s Magic Oneohtrix Point Never,…
If songs/instrumentals is to mark a pause in Lenker’s prolific output over the past couple years, it’s a fitting and intimate ellipses. After a prolific year…
Barwick’s latest is still welcomingly adventurous but the artist’s slight pivots make for diminishing returns here. For an artist who’s been heavily characterized by…
Gold Record isn’t Bill Callahan’s greatest sonic effort, but it represents a thematic, emotional maturation for the artist. Nobody broods quite like Bill Callahan. From…
Whole New Mess might be a reinterpretation of old material but its intimate, melancholic shift poignantly reflects 2020’s somber mood. Angel Olsen is back, this…
Deftones have somehow managed to remain relevant since they first emerged out of the nu-metal explosion of the late 1990s and early 2000s, but…