Album Reviews

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  Pkew Pkew Pkew Are Easy to Root for on 'Siiick Days'

  PUBLISHED Sep 26, 2023

  Siiick Days sees Toronto's Pkew Pkew Pkew making tongue-in-cheek reference to a certain pandemic from recent history. Although COVID-19 sti...

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  Wilco Arrive on New Shores with 'Cousin'

  PUBLISHED Sep 26, 2023

  Bringing something new to the table after nearly three decades is never an easy task, nor is it the safe option. But with the help of a new...

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  Animal Collective Find New Life on 'Isn't It Now?'

  PUBLISHED Sep 26, 2023

  At their best, Animal Collective deconstruct pop forms and ecstatically regurgitate them in inspired spurts, alive with ideas that resist n...

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  Luge's 'I Love It Here, I Live Here' Takes Their Complexity to New Heights

  PUBLISHED Sep 25, 2023

  Look no further than the title: Luge isn't messing around about messing around. On their fourth full length release (not counting some Band...

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  Will Butler + Sister Squares Stake Their Claim on Their Self-Titled Record

  PUBLISHED Sep 22, 2023

  Life is a constant stream of shit, but sometimes getting beaten down can lead to a hot streak. Food, flowers, and psychedelics flourish whe...

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  Tomb Mold's 'The Enduring Spirit' Is an Unstoppable Ascension

  PUBLISHED Sep 22, 2023

  Death metal is metal's most overbearing and blunt subgenre. Often depicting cruelty, violence, disease and cynicism, the genre has a reputa...

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  KEN Mode Are Cold, Brutal and Somehow Inviting on 'Void'

  PUBLISHED Sep 22, 2023

  There are many ways people deal with trauma, with pain, with isolation. Some retreat into themselves; others search for company and connect...

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  'Tim: Let It Bleed Edition' Captures the Replacements as Clearly and Boldly as Fans Could Hope

  PUBLISHED Sep 21, 2023

  Though music fans have every right to be cynical about remixed and remastered reissue campaigns, few such releases feel as startling and mi...