Album Reviews

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  Knoll Make Themselves Heard on 'As Spoken'

  PUBLISHED Jan 23, 2024

  'As Spoken' should push Knoll out of the underground and into the pantheon of new grindcore greats...

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  Katy Kirby's 'Blue Raspberry' Savours the Artificial

  PUBLISHED Jan 23, 2024

  On 'Blue Raspberry,' Kirby marvels at the human desire to blend the lies and truths we embody every day into something delicious....

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  Future Islands Continue Toward Their Destination on 'People Who Aren't There Anymore'

  PUBLISHED Jan 22, 2024

  The band’s seventh album is an often excellent effort containing moments that see Future Islands really crystallize as its best self...

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  Hot Garbage Stake Their Claim with 'Precious Dream'

  PUBLISHED Jan 19, 2024

  For the past decade or so, there have been four bands heading the sooty psych rock battlements; the Black Angels, Osees, Frankie and the Wi...

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  Eliza McLamb Demythologizes Girlhood on 'Going Through It'

  PUBLISHED Jan 18, 2024

  Most people probably love illuminati hotties at their most wonky and unhinged, but I've always appreciated their ability to exercise restra...

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  Green Day Hit a Late-Career High on 'Saviors'

  PUBLISHED Jan 18, 2024

  What needs to be said about Green Day at this point? Billie Joe Armstrong, Mike Dirnt and Tré Cool are the multi-million-selling post-Nirva...

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  PACKS' 'Melt the Honey' Keeps Things Raw

  PUBLISHED Jan 16, 2024

  In March 2022, the same month that she released Crispy Crunchy Nothing, her sophomore LP as PACKS, Madeline Link and her band headed into t...

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  glass beach Go for Broke on 'plastic death'

  PUBLISHED Jan 16, 2024

  Emerging from the watery depths a half decade after their debut, glass beach's plastic death is a monolith of an album, narratively entwine...