Album Review

Archy Marshall has grown up. The 25-year-old Londoner behind post-punk act King Krule recently got married, had a baby girl, and moved from South London to Wigan. Hey World!, a short film featuring four new so...

I have never – and will never – consider any Disney movie superior to The Lion King (1994). I’ve watched the original countless times, and the 2019 remake three times in theaters; somehow each time I’m ...

In the first few seconds of the first song on London Calling (1979), The Clash drags you into a punk post-apocalypse and refuses to let you go. The title track is a statement, a story, a prophecy, and an irrev...

For over twenty-five years, Beck has been a known variable in music for his experimental pop and genre-defining innovation. Hyperspace marks fourteen studio albums, his third of the 2010s, and twenty years sinc...

Mikaela Straus, known better as King Princess, recently released her debut album Cheap Queen (2019). The queer pop icon has racked up a lot of attention since dropping three singles last year: “1950,” “Pu...

I had been awaiting a full-and-loaded album from R&B/soul artist Summer Walker for what seemed like way too long. So when Over It (2019) was finally released in early October, it's all I listened to for at ...

This past October, singer Tamino-Amir Moharam Fouad, better known as Tamino, released the deluxe version of his debut album Amir (2019), which contains virtually all of his significant work to date. Listening t...

On October 25th, 2019 The Growlers released their latest album, Natural Affair, as if to tell listeners that, yes, they did indeed peek in 2014 and it has been all downhill from there. It lacks the luster of th...

To make it clear, I’ve gotten high less than 10 times, and during the handful of times I’ve had a bad trip, only music can calm me down and stop me from feeling like I’m sinking into myself. Electric Gues...

Kanye West has always thought of himself as a prophet of sorts, a conduit destined to receive divine inspiration from God himself.  This belief, or dare I say delusion, that he has been chosen by the creator h...

The following is an excerpt from a short story called “An Eventful Walk Through New York” lampooning the bizarre, critical-flop of an album that is Rush’s third record, Caress of Steel (1975). The story f...

On their fourth album and their second for the Mexican Summer label, Lahs (2019), the Allah Las produce a solid psychedelic indie rock record that, however, regrettably sounds very similar to most of their othe...

Regardless of someone’s degree of Beatles fandom, a look at the cover of their final recording reveals a deeper familiarity with the world culture overall. Abbey Road, 1969’s greatest contribution to music,...

Growing up, I would come downstairs after sleeping in on a Sunday to my mom making crêpes in the kitchen. Picture spring in Portland: rain, dread (because it’s still raining and it’s June, literally where ...

Ma (2019), the tenth album from American-Venezuelan freak-folk artist Devendra Banhart is a fully articulated contemplation on love and all that binds humans together. Musically, the album carries over electron...