Album Reviews

ALL HANDS_MAKE LIGHT are Time Travellers on 'Darling the Dawn'

PUBLISHED Apr 20, 2023

While the Internet's proclivity for describing spaces as 'liminal' has reached its stultifying peak, "Darling the Dawn" — the debut long pl...

Bestfriend Leave It All Behind on 'places i've left'

PUBLISHED Apr 20, 2023

It seems like 2023 is the year of the anxious and angsty millennial (and Gen Z cusp?) album. From Paramore's This Is Why to boygenius' the...

William Prince Sounds Larger Than Life on 'Stand in the Joy'

PUBLISHED Apr 18, 2023

The perfected sonic palette on William Prince's latest record, Stand in the Joy, rests in the careful mix of his deep, gentle baritone with...

Fenne Lily Zooms Out on the Lovely 'Big Picture'

PUBLISHED Apr 13, 2023

A common thread throughout Fenne Lily's Big Picture is the way our feelings of love are based on the specific circumstance at a given momen...

Kristi Lane Sinclair Offers Rest and Rage on 'Super Blood Wolf Moon'

PUBLISHED Apr 12, 2023

We often describe women who survive terrible things as "brave." It's a swift designation that seems to reward one's bearing the violence of...

Kara Jackson Asks the Big Questions on 'Why Does the Earth Give Us People to Love?'

PUBLISHED Apr 12, 2023

The first song recorded by Bessie Smith, the Empress of the Blues, is 1923's "Downhearted Blues." It starts with Smith pining after unrequi...

Wavves x Cloud Nothings

No Life for Me

PUBLISHED Apr 11, 2023

After teasing their collaboration for several months, Wavves' Nathan Williams and Cloud Nothings' Dylan Baldi decided to drop No Life for M...

Kid Koala Is All Fun and Games on 'Creatures of the Late Afternoon'

PUBLISHED Apr 11, 2023

Montreal-based turntablist Eric San, best known as Kid Koala, has been one of the most wonderfully inventive and wholesomely cathartic arti...