Album Review

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...

Clipping’s new album Visions of Bodies Being Burned (2020) has one hell of a story to tell you. Released on the 23rd of October, the album serves as a sequel to last year’s LP There Existed an Addiction to...

Halloween is celebrated through disparate traditions by cultures around the world. Globalization in the United States has turned the season into an amalgamation of customs from across the world, the simulacrum...

As I was scrolling through the #sufjanstevens tag on TikTok (as one naturally does), I clicked on a high-quality video in which user @boyjr.69 covers Sufjan Stevens' indie hit song “Mystery of Love” in the...

Rapper and singer Kyle, from Ventura, CA, recently dropped his fourth album, See You When I am Famous!!!!!!!!!!!! (2020). A mix of new and old styles, SYWIF is a collection of songs which both remind of us of ...

English singer-songwriter Lianne La Havas just released her self-titled album, and though her previous records were filled with soul and rock sensibility, this cohesive record which focuses on the cyclical na...

The metal underground has seen a massive revival in the digital age, and it can be daunting to parse through dozens of terrible one-man basement black metal groups to find a gem. I can attest to this, as the 1...

Horror is paradoxically uncool: the elements of horror are ubiquitous and mainstream, and yet the genre itself remains insular and weird, the torch passionately carried by modern directors like Robert Eggers a...

Quarantine definitely has people with time on their hands. I have had a chance to not only catch up on some great albums I have been recommended, but also some of this year’s new releases. Normally I would l...

On April 10th, my love saga with The Buttertones made a sudden shift to feel like a brisk affair with an older man when they released their fifth album, Jazzhound. This album holds all of the integrity of thei...

Green Day’s February release, Father of All Motherfuckers (2020), is a tongue-in-cheek middle finger to the record industry. With almost no song exceeding three minutes in length, Green Day did the bare mini...

You find yourself in a cabin in a forgotten wood, and the grizzled wanderer across the fire tells stories about the dense, hushed forest outside your warm sanctuary. Through his bawdy, gruff guise, the strange...

In 2015 Grimes, or Claire Boucher, proved to non-believers that she was more than just Garageband bangers and beats with Art Angels. Her fifth and “last Earth album,” Miss Anthropocene (2020), sees the now...

The six years of painful silence from indie-rock band Vampire Weekend came to its anticipated end with Father of the Bride (2019) serving as a generous comeback filled with brightness and electricity. With its...