Album Reviews

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  The Drums' 'Jonny' Is Haunting and Hopeful

  PUBLISHED Oct 13, 2023

  A decade ago, Jonathan Pierce returned to his childhood home in Horseheads, NY, to reckon with his past. While his parents were away at ser...

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  Holly Humberstone Lets the Light in on 'Paint My Bedroom Black'

  PUBLISHED Oct 12, 2023

  The Japanese art of Kintsugi is about repair without concealment. Fusing broken pottery back together with gold-dusted lacquer, it repairs...

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  Land of Talk Scale New Heights on 'Performances'

  PUBLISHED Oct 12, 2023

  It's a common occurrence for artists to describe their latest album as the best work they've ever made. But Lizzie Powell may be one of the...

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  Helena Deland Attempts to Say What Cannot be Said on the Lovely 'Goodnight Summerland'

  PUBLISHED Oct 11, 2023

  Helena Deland sings about connectivity — to intimate partners, passing images and the world at large — from the vantage point of someone un...

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  Faith Healer's 'The Hand That Fits the Glove' Reshapes Pop Conventions

  PUBLISHED Oct 11, 2023

  "I'm so tired of playing the game," deadpans singer Jessica Jalbert on The Hand That Fits the Glove opener "The Game," her voice droning on...

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  Jamila Woods Bravely Explores the Tributaries of Selfhood on 'Water Made Us'

  PUBLISHED Oct 11, 2023

  In a her 1995 essay "The Site of Memory,"  Toni Morrisson spoke about the memory of water.  "You know, they straightened out the Mississipp...

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  Yukon Blonde's 'Shuggie' Asks More of Life

  PUBLISHED Oct 10, 2023

  What does it mean to write in the second person? In literature, it means a great many hefty things, mostly to do with ascription. But in po...

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  The Menzingers Keep It Pushing on 'Some of It Was True'

  PUBLISHED Oct 10, 2023

  For a band that has written so much about feeling lost and uncertain about the passage of time, the Menzingers are settling nicely into the...