Album Review

  While the immediate catchiness of Mac DeMarco’s first two albums gained him a well-deserved following, the 23-year-old tries to escape his shadow and earn a slightly more serious reputation as a song...

Indie contortionists Walking Shapes traverse a variety of genres on their sophomore effort, Taka Come On. It’ll be their debut album, however, as the band’s prior release was a 13-track mixtape. They wan...

Raising their slightly less-than-traditional Dixie flag, Atlanta’s alt-rock group Manchester Orchestra comes out with guns blazing on their latest, Cope. Full of viscous guitars, distortion, and head-bangi...

Thievery Corporation gives universal meaning to saudade, an exclusively Portuguese word, in their newest album. Thievery Corporation's Saudade Since the mid-90s, Thievery Corporation, a D.C.-based duo consis...

Seahaven If there’s one thing about the new Seahaven record that cannot be stressed enough, it’s that listeners should leave all expectations at the door. As for weathered Seahaven fans, a change of pace ...

Shit Robot Irish producer Marcus Lambkin, aka Shit Robot, creates club dance tracks with late twentieth-century throwback sounds. His nostalgic style fits perfectly with the aesthetic cultivated by his label, ...

The War on Drugs' latest album Lost In The Dream While the real war on drugs is raging outside, Pennsylvania-based experimental indie group The War on Drugs is grappling with an internal subconscious on the...

Ledisi returns to spread the The Truth, which celebrates love and the reclaiming of the self. Ledisi Born in New Orleans, artist Ledisi’s musical talents effloresced with her when she moved to Oakland. Fr...

photo by Gregoire Alexandre Capitalizing on the modern revival of the British Invasion, Metronomy has synthesized a haunting electropop gem in Love Letters. The group's fourth installment is rooted in drum m...

Scott Mescudi as Kid Cudi has been pushing boundaries since the launch of his six-year Man on the Moon series, but with last week’s surprise 10-track album, the Cleveland astro-rapper has reached a new altit...

photo by Reuben Wu Tycho is driving music. The swirling, forward-moving, polyphonic symphonies on his latest album, Awake, couple with the static horizon of the Mojave desert in the distance, the boulders and...

Max Cooper has a Ph.D., a real affinity for Twitter, and a critically acclaimed music career that seemed to come out of nowhere. The UK producer showcased his raw, but expert chops with an electrifying perfo...

The ability to construct timeless recollections is perhaps the closest portal we have to fourth-dimensional travel. Summers at the local pool, polaroid photographs, zebra printed slap bracelets, and the aroma...

Natural Child's Dancin' With Wolves Nashville-based band Natural Child shows some serious growth with their latest release, Dancin’ With Wolves. The new album sees the typically gritty blues rockers explori...

Early reports that Beck’s new album Morning Phase would be a sequel to 2002’s melancholy classic Sea Change sent many fans of sad Beck into a state of delirious excitement. “Blue Moon,” the single rele...