David Nance - "Negative Boogie" | Album Review
Furnsss - "Furnsss" | Album Review
Terrible As The Dawn - "A Shadow Circuit" | Album Review
Mauno - "Tuning" | Album Review
Kindling - "Hush" | Album Review
Irreversible Entanglements - "Irreversible Entanglements" | Album Review
Angel Olsen - "Phases" | Album Review
As Angel Olsen proves over the course of her new compilation Phases and many artists before her have, these collections not only are an opportunity for the artist to give insight into the creative process, but also let us hear a batch of songs that might be strong, but may not have fit into the thematic or stylistic arcs of their LPs or EPs.
Bethlehem Steel - "Party Naked Forever" | Album Review
Flat Worms - "Flat Worms" | Album Review
Calgrove - "Wind Vane" | Album Review
Old Maybe - "Piggity Pink" | Album Review
Bad History Month - "Dead And Loving It: An Introductory Exploration of Pessimysticism" | Album Review
It holds both a singular vision and an array of contradictions, which build to create a sprawling record that is easily the band’s most polished. I’m not sure if there’s a way to classify Dead and Loving It within any narrative-- as either nihilistic or hopeful, as triumphant or a downer -- a complication which ultimately gives weight and grace to the band’s first full-length in four years.
Dark Mtns - "Dark Mtns II" | Album Review
Pope - "True Talent Champion" | Album Review
True Talent Champion, Pope’s overdue follow-up to Fiction, presents the bleak, fractured narrative currently facing the contemporary rock band. In addition to Skalany and Seferian coordinating individually-penned songs, the duo—with Atticus Lopez on drums—overcome the variabilities inherent in balancing songwriting and touring as members of an additional band as well as their respective solo projects
Treadles - "Bees Are Thieves Too" | Album Review
Heaters - "Matterhorn" | Album Review
The Effects - "Eyes to the Light" | Album Review
Sleater-Kinney - "Live In Paris" | Album Review
Weaves - "Wide Open" | Album Review
Wide Open dims the manic lights of the rambunctious Weaves the world knew only a year ago, and this restraint proves necessary. A main theme of the album is the need for change; discussing its hardline, vital subject matter over arrangements as cartoonish as those on Weaves might have undermined Burke’s points.