Album Review: Ivan Ave – Every Eye

Norwegian rapper Ivan Ave first garnered attention as the author of the Low Jams EP. The five-track project was released by Berlin label ..

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Album Review: Sam Smith – The Thrill of It All

In live performance Sam Smith sometimes seems to forget about the audience. Eyes half-closed, hands hugging elbows or buried in pockets, ..

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Album Review: Shamir – Revelations

Shamir Bailey’s tale is one of reclamation. The 22-year-old musician underwent a series of personal and professional dilemmas over ..

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Album Review: Fever Ray – Plunge

Fever Ray has always been an outlet for independence. Karin Dreijer does things on her own terms, and while that’s obvious in The Knife ..

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Album Review: Conway – More Steroids

Westside Gunn, the high-pitched voice and gold-toothed face of Buffalo’s Griselda Records, did not originally plan to be a rapper. ..

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Album Review: Julien Baker – Turn Out the Lights

No one is more critical of Julien Baker than herself. Throughout Turn Out the Lights, her groundbreaking second album, and first for Matador ..

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Album Review: Weezer – Pacific Daydream

For the life of me, I’ve never been able to tell if Rivers Cuomo grew up too soon or was some kind of late bloomer. It shouldn’t ..

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Album Review: Destroyer – ken

The most freeing — and to some, confounding — thing about the music of Destroyer, the decades-long personal project of The New Pornographers’ ..

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Album Review: Bully – Losing

Losing is a record marked by loss within the life of Bully mastermind Alicia Bognanno, but it’s not that loss, however multifaceted, ..

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Album Review: Margo Price – All American Made

Margo Price doesn’t seem to care for the notion of being a country traditionalist and the cult success that comes along with it. The 34-year-old ..

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Album Review: Jessie Ware – Glasshouse

Over the past seven years, Jessie Ware has built up a stellar reputation as a critically lauded pop singer always on the cusp of breaking ..

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Album Review: St. Vincent – MASSEDUCTION

On every previous St. Vincent album cover, you see Annie Clark’s face. On her first records, Marry Me and Actor, the images are simple ..

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Album Review: Wu-Tang Clan – Wu-Tang: The Saga Continues

In recent years, a certain kind of New York City rap experienced a resurgence of sorts. Ushered in by the likes of Action Bronson, Joey ..

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Album Review: Beck – Colors

If the respective rises of alternative rock and hip-hop were the most significant musical developments of the 1990s, we can credit Beck ..

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Album Review: Melkbelly – Nothing Valley

There’s something desperate about the Midwestern summer, a certain revved-up edge to any nice day that’s brought about by memories ..

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Album Review: Kelela – Take Me Apart

Kelela is unafraid of the darkest parts of herself and frequently given to diving deep on her long-awaited debut album, Take Me Apart. ..

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Album Review: Wolf Parade – Cry Cry Cry

In 2005, Wolf Parade named their album in playful regret of an incident that occurred aboard an ocean liner. With Cry Cry Cry, they’re ..

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Album Review: Michael Jackson – Scream

Right, he was the King of Pop and all that stuff, but Michael Jackson was a capital-A album artist through and through once Quincy Jones ..

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Album Review: Liam Gallagher – As You Were

Former Oasis frontman Liam Gallagher may be one of his generation’s greats, but that doesn’t mean anyone was expecting ..

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Album Review: Miley Cyrus – Younger Now

From the hyperpolarizing emergence of the Trump Administration to social justice activists battling actual Nazis in the streets, the American ..

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Album Review: Shania Twain – Now

  Now, the first new Shania Twain album in 15 years, has a strange dual existence. There are an abundance of questions and expectations ..

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Album Review: Protomartyr – Relatives in Descent

Heraclitus of Ephesus, also known as “The Obscure” or “The Weeping Philosopher,” had a saying: “No man steps ..

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Album Review: Torres – Three Futures

When Sprinter, Mackenzie Scott’s second album as Torres, came out in 2015, it was an astoundingly assured statement from a young artist ..

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Album Review: Moses Sumney – Aromanticism

If hard work is the key to success, then patience is the carabiner that keeps it from being misplaced along the way. It’s about ..

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Album Review: Phoebe Bridgers – Stranger in the Alps

There’s a winnowing that comes from distance and absence, in a way that reduces our connections with a person, place, or thing to a series ..

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Album Review: The Killers – Wonderful Wonderful

Brandon Flowers spent most of the promotional tour for the fifth Killers’ studio album apologizing for the fourth one. Back in July, ..

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Album Review: Yusuf / Cat Stevens – The Laughing Apple

The forward slash in Yusuf / Cat Stevens’ billing says quite a lot about the folksinger’s return to conventional Western recording ..

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Album Review: Son Little – New Magic

Son Little first came to prominence as Aaron Livingston, the unassuming Philadelphia-bred singer-songwriter with a clarion tone that pierced ..

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Album Review: Foo Fighters – Concrete and Gold

You know, it’s not that Dave Grohl doesn’t care about music. That idea would seem preposterous to his zillions of fans. But he wins ..

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Album Review: Deer Tick – Deer Tick Vol. 1 & 2

Tom Waits. Bruce Springsteen. Guns N’ Roses. The list of artists who’ve released two albums on the same day is short, and the list ..

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Album Review: Hundred Waters – Communicating

When Hundred Waters began five years ago, the Florida band was quiet by design, operating on a small scale with hushed whispers as they ..

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Album Review: Tori Amos – Native Invader

On June 28, 1996, Tori Amos performed to a sold-out Greek Theatre in Los Angeles months after the release of her third album, Boys for Pele. ..

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Album Review: Rostam – Half-Light

In just three years’ time, when we begin to look back and reflect on the music of the ‘10s, one of the most significant moments ..

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Album Review: Neil Young – Hitchhiker

Even as he’s settled into his mid-70s, Neil Young has continued to record at a blistering pace. Since 2010, Young has released roughly ..

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Album Review: Zola Jesus – Okovi

Find someone who skates through life with no issues, and chances are the person you’re talking to doesn’t live on Earth. For some, ..

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Album Review: Death from Above – Outrage! Is Now

If you take 10 years off between records, you might as well be starting from scratch. That was certainly the case for Death from Above 1979, ..

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Album Review: The National – Sleep Well Beast

There’s something sinister swimming around beneath the surface of The National’s seventh album. It’s not the spiders crowding ..

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Album Review: A$AP Mob – Cozy Tapes Vol. 2: Too Cozy

In 2011, A$AP Mob provided a jolt to a New York hip-hop scene that had been without a new star since 50 Cent’s debut eight years prior. ..

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Album Review: Ian Felice – In the Kingdom of Dreams

A sizeable chunk of our childhood memories aren’t memories at all. During the toddler years, our brains are busy taking in sights ..

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Album Review: Brand New – Science Fiction

Never the kind of band to do things by the book, Brand New’s career the last two decades has felt like a series of mazes. The Long ..

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Album Review: Iron & Wine – Beast Epic

Sam Beam has a traveler’s heart. After making a name for himself at the vanguard of indie music’s folk fascination of the early ..

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Album Review: Queens of the Stone Age – Villains

Truth be told, Josh Homme has it all. He’s reached the top of the rock A-list without ever appearing to have struggled for a hit single, ..

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Album Review: The War On Drugs – A Deeper Understanding

The War on Drugs should be headlining music festivals. Seeing how it’s 2017, and the model for rock bands who can feasibly headline ..

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Album Review: Grizzly Bear – Painted Ruins

Revisiting Yellow House, the 2006 folk masterpiece that helped Grizzly Bear break out to a wider audience in the indie rock community, ..

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Album Review: Alice Cooper – Paranormal

Mass appeal is what every artist wants but almost never asks for outright. There’s no better way to insure the longevity of one’s ..

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Album Review: Lana Del Rey – Lust for Life

We as music critics need to stop applying the overused term “victory lap” to Everyone Who Succeeds; what is the victory over ..

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Album Review: Arcade Fire – Everything Now

Arcade Fire’s 2013 rollout for Reflektor was, in many ways, as memorable as that record’s music. There was the guerrilla graffiti ..

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