Album Reviews

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  Cat Power Is Devotee, Student and Messenger on 'Cat Power Sings Dylan: The 1966 Royal Albert Hall Concert'

  PUBLISHED Nov 7, 2023

  Almost 60 years after his mythic performance at the Manchester Free Trade Hall, we're still talking about Robert Zimmerman. The infamous ac...

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  Badge Epoque Ensemble Break Down the Essentials on 'Air, Light & Harmony'

  PUBLISHED Nov 3, 2023

  What's the next step after cutting your most accomplished effort to date? For Badge Époque Ensemble, the horizon beyond last year's Clouds...

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  Bry Webb's 'Run with Me' Is Both Conclusion and Rebirth

  PUBLISHED Nov 3, 2023

  Sometimes people disappear gradually. Archival evidence of their being remains, standing in for their actual presence, but when (or if) the...

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  bar italia Are Out for Blood on 'The Twits'

  PUBLISHED Nov 2, 2023

  Not content with only releasing their nervy Matador debut Tracey Denim this year, bar italia venture into fuzzy, clanging britpop on their...

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  Hotline TNT Defy Space and Time on 'Cartwheel'

  PUBLISHED Nov 2, 2023

  How did Wisconsin-born Will Anderson go from making grunge-pop in Vancouver to shoegaze-adjacent rock in Brooklyn while signing with a tast...

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  Marnie Stern Returns Guitars Blazing on 'The Comeback Kid'

  PUBLISHED Nov 2, 2023

  Marnie Stern spent the better part of a decade serving as a beacon of exuberance, vigour and complexity in rock music. Not content to rely...

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  Jockstrap Are Chopped to Bits on 'I<3UQTINVU'

  PUBLISHED Nov 1, 2023

  In the world of '80s sci-fi movies, misguided attempts were often made to imagine what music might sound like a century or two in the futur...

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  Drop Nineteens Have Lost Their Thorns on 'Hard Light'

  PUBLISHED Nov 1, 2023

  Whether shoegaze's enduring cross-generational appeal and TikTok meme-ability had anything to do with Drop Nineteens reactivating and dropp...