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Album Review: Shawn Colvin - The Starlighter (10/10)
Having explored children’s music in 1998, Shawn Colvin revisits this theme with The Starlighter, drawing from Lullabies and Night Songs, a book with musical arrangements by composer Alec Wilder ... -
Album Review: MGMT - Little Dark Age (9/10)
On their first album in five years, Andrew VanWyngarden and Ben Goldwasser upraise their obtuse admixture of synth pop and psychedelic rock to new heights of exuberant delirium. Amid ... -
Album Review: Vance Joy - Nation of Two (9/10)
Vance Joy’s 13-track Nation of Two once again capitalizes on the artist’s chief strengths: simplicity, honesty and metaphor. Simplicity by way of largely unadorned guitar and ukulele, honesty in ... -
Album Review: Lissie - Castles (7/10)
Fresh off her Twin Peaks cameo, singer-songwriter Lissie is back with her first release since 2016’s My Wild West. This time around the Illinois native strips ... -
Album Review: Mt. Joy - Mt. Joy (6/10)
Singer Matt Quinn’s vocals are the epitome of a mellifluous, double-edged sword on this wavering debut. Literary lyrics and indigo imagery mate elegantly alongside amber ... -
Matthew Stubbs And The Antiguas - Matthew Stubbs and The Antiguas (8/10)
AMAZING live-sounding production––like the band is right in front of you! Stubbs has released a classic album of instrumentals that references the best elements of ... -
Jules Shear - One More Crooked Dance (8/10)
For nearly 40 years, Jules Shear has been a songwriter’s songwriter, with hits recorded by The Bangles, Cyndi Lauper and others. A number of previous ... -
FREEWIFI - Join the Network (8/10)
Minneapolis newcomers Tha Rift, J. Plaza and Daddy Dinero dish an absorbing sampler-sized serving of crackerjack rhymes and oversized beats. Plaza and Rift’s lyrical dexterity ... -
Björk - Utopia (9/10)
Björk unleashes a remarkable effort with her latest recording. Coming off of the heartbreak depicted on her last album, here she utilizes a woman’s flute ... -
Watain - Trident Wolf Apocalypse (9/10)
Twenty years into their career delivering some of the most blasphemous metal this side of Sweden, the Theistic Satanists (look it up) continue to adorn ...
