The National I Am Easy To Find 4AD After several phenomenal albums and a recent Grammy win for Best Alternative Album, The National has raised the bar. Their eighth album I Am Easy To Find represents continuity and change, contrast and unity [...]
LOCAL NATIVES w/ MIDDLE KIDS @ THE COMMODORE BALLROOM, VANCOUVER MAY 15, 2019 Local Natives kicked off their new Spiral Choir world tour at the Commodore Ballroom tonight. This new tour follows the recent release of Violet Street, their fourth [...]
Vampire Weekend Father Of The Bride Columbia Records After nearly six years and the departure of multi-instrumentalist and producer Rostam Batmanglij, Vampire Weekend has released their fourth album Father of the Bride. It is a sprawling, [...]
Local Natives Violet Street Loma Vista Recordings Local Natives have evolved throughout each album. Their debut LP, Gorilla Manor, featured the rough-around-the-edges energy of a young band letting loose, while Hummingbird introduced a more [...]
Josh Ritter Fever Breaks V2 Records Benelux Recorded down in Nashville, Fever Breaks may be Josh Ritter’s most obviously country album. From the instrumentation and lyrics to the vocal inflections Ritter uses as he sings phrases like “y’all [...]
M83 Knife + Heart (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) Mute Records Knife + Heart is the first M83 release since 2016, their third feature film soundtrack, and the first album to feature both Anthony Gonzalez and Nicolas Fromageau since 2003. [...]
Weezer The Black Album Crush Music/Atlantic Records After an upbeat cover album of mostly ‘80s hits, fans may have expected Weezer to explore a darker, grungier side on their self-titled Black Album, possibly returning to their alternative rock [...]
Sharon Van Etten Remind Me Tomorrow Jagjaguwar Given that Remind Me Tomorrow comes five years after Sharon Van Etten’s last album and was written during a time of significant personal change, it is no surprise that it is markedly different from [...]
Hammock Universalis Hammock Music Hammock, Mark Byrd and Andrew Thompson’s ambient project, has released its eleventh studio album, Universalis, channelling an atmospheric post-rock style similar to artists like Robert Fripp and Brian Eno. [...]
We Are The City Above Club Boompa Records On their third full-length release, Above Club, We Are the city continue to push musical boundaries with their extremely interesting pop-rock music. Above Club features more electronic elements than the [...]
We Are The City At Night Light Organ Records We Are the City’s fourth full-length album, At Night, is a fundamentally experimental album, entirely written, recorded, and self-produced in less than two weeks. This raw and unpolished creative [...]
