Album Reviews

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  Teenage Fanclub Continue to Do What They Do on 'Nothing Lasts Forever'

  PUBLISHED Sep 21, 2023

  There are certain bands who seem almost unbothered by how music has evolved over time, existing in a sort of peaceful stasis in the niche t...

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  Chappell Roan Gets Hot, Heavy and Heartbroken on 'The Rise and Fall of a Midwest Princess'

  PUBLISHED Sep 20, 2023

  Chappell Roan likes to get down, in every sense of the phrase. On her very danceable debut album, The Rise and Fall of a Midwest Princess,...

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  Loraine James Preserves Love's Artifacts on 'Gentle Confrontation'

  PUBLISHED Sep 20, 2023

  With every album, one gets the sense that Loraine James has discovered new facets of herself, however big or small they may be. "I really c...

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  yeule Is Beginning to Heal on 'softscars'

  PUBLISHED Sep 20, 2023

  You could be forgiven if you'd assumed that electronic musician yeule was just the latest upgrade in the music industry's quest to build a...

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  CHAI's Self-Titled Album Is Sweet and Sticky but Never Saccharine

  PUBLISHED Sep 19, 2023

  Japanese pop experimentalists CHAI espouse a philosophy that they call Neo Kawaii. A reference to the Japanese word for cute, Kawaii encour...

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  'Laugh Track' Is in the Centre of the National's Venn Diagram

  PUBLISHED Sep 18, 2023

  Albums come in twos these days for Aaron Dessner. He produced and co-wrote most of Taylor Swift's 2020 double-header, and this year oversaw...

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  The Beaches' 'Blame My Ex' Is a Win

  PUBLISHED Sep 15, 2023

  As far as album titles go, you can't get much more pointed than Blame My Ex, the latest pull-no-punches full-length from the Beaches. Relea...

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  Baroness Are Streamlined and Focused on 'STONE'

  PUBLISHED Sep 14, 2023

  Since their first true full-length release, 2007's Red Album, Baroness have been trying to mutate their primal sound. The sludgy, progressi...