Album Review

PXE (2021), pronounced “pixie,” is the newest EP from multi-hyphenate artist Zak Arogundade, also known as Ecco2k. Following the release of a few singles and the artist’s debut album in 2019, PXE now move...

With a band as prolific and experimental as King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard (KGATLW), it is hard to imagine what a self-titled album, an artist’s definition of their sound, might be like. Still, it is surp...

If you spend as much time on TikTok as I do, it is likely you have heard the slowed, acoustic version of “Home” by Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros sung by Edith Whiskers. You might have heard the class...

On their fourth studio album, SHYGA! The Sunlight Mound (2021), The Psychedelic Porn Crumpets combine poppy hooks, layered psychedelic textures, and hard riff-based alternative rock, comfortably leaning into a ...

“Rise and Shine, let’s get it.” These are the words that Tyron Framton, more commonly known as Slowthai, shouts on the opening track of his sophomore album, TYRON (2021). After his last public appearance ...

Released early in the first few weeks of quarantine, Heaven To a Tortured Mind (2020) is Yves Tumor’s third studio album, and calling it a masterpiece is an understatement. Every single one of Tumor’s proje...

YUNGBLUD’s recent album is a tale for the ages. The UK-based singer-songwriter’s sophomore album, weird!, is an ode to the lost youth of today’s society. With tracks about polyamory, depression, and suici...

In 1985, New Order had already proven themselves to be one of the biggest musical innovators of the 80s, and absolutely the most successful new wave band in transitioning from post-punks to bona-fide booty-movi...

If any artist should exist with the merit to soundtrack the apocalypse, let it be 26 year old Phoebe Bridgers.  On November 20, 2020, Phoebe Bridgers released her four-track EP Copycat Killer featuring Rob ...

If you live in Los Angeles long enough you’ll probably hear about Angelyne. If you’re lucky, you might see her shopping on the West Side in Maribou stripper heels or prowling the hills in her magenta Corv...

Jean Dawson’s Spotify bio reads “The life and times of a boy exploring identity, intimacy, and escapism,” and that sums up his sound pretty well. Standing as his debut studio album, Pixel Bath (2020) is ...

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Magic Oneohtrix Point Never (2020) is possibly Daniel Lopatin (the composer behind the moniker) at his most Oneohtrix Point Never. While this may sound like nonsense, let me explain. Following the release of t...

Gorillaz surprised everyone when they got back together in 2017 for their next album, Humanz. Although they’ve now been back for a while and have made two decent records since, the band was seeming a bit los...

Machine Gun Kelly, or MGK’s, sixth album Tickets to My Downfall (2020) is a prime example of creativity without limits. The rapper stayed true to his high school roots while straying from his typical sound w...