Album Reviews

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  Sunset Rubdown Pick Up the Pieces on 'Always Happy to Explode'

  PUBLISHED Sep 18, 2024

  The gap between Sunset Rubdown's last record, 2009's 'Dragonslayer,' and 'Always Happy to Explode' is three times longer than the band's ...

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  Past and Present Collide on P:ano's Achingly Beautiful 'ba ba ba'

  PUBLISHED Sep 17, 2024

  It's a Tuesday, and P:ano have released their first album in 19 years. The day of the week is significant because, the last time the group...

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  WE ARE WINTER’S BLUE AND RADIANT CHILDREN Make the Good Themselves on 'NO MORE APOCALYPSE FATHER'

  PUBLISHED Sep 13, 2024

  "I never know how I feel on an overcast day when the sun is still bright despite the grayness and the light is very flat"...

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  Sarah Davachi Embraces the Divide on 'The Head as Form’d in the Crier’s Choir'

  PUBLISHED Sep 13, 2024

  Composer Sarah Davachi's The Head as Form'd in the Crier's Choir is the latest entry in an already remarkable body of modern classical work...

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  The Revolution Is Ready for Prime Time on Snotty Nose Rez Kids' 'RED FUTURE'

  PUBLISHED Sep 13, 2024

  Although their cheeky group name perhaps suggests something of a defiant, slacker attitude, Kitamaat rappers Darren "Young D" Metz ...

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  Nilüfer Yanya Is Caught in a Thrilling Stasis on 'My Method Actor'

  PUBLISHED Sep 13, 2024

  Conceptualizing the arch of a songwriter's artistic development can feel like an act of senseless problematization. Unlike judgments of...

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  Chastity's Self-Titled Album Is Both Battle Scar and Open Wound

  PUBLISHED Sep 12, 2024

  It's a new era for Chastity, and it starts off — quite literally — with a bang. A single, blown out tom hit is all the warning you're given...

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  Porches' 'Shirt' Is a Freewheeling, Feral Portrait of Suburban America

  PUBLISHED Sep 12, 2024

  On the darkly exhilarating sixth studio album from Porches, Aaron Maine is staring at the big sky, ditching school, climbing fences and...