Royal Blood How Did We Get So Dark? Warner Music Modern rock innovators, Royal Blood have returned with their sophomore full length album, How Did We Get So Dark?. The record follows the band’s massively successful self-titled album from 2014. [...]
Ride Weather Diaries Wichita Recordings On Ride’s first album in over 20 years, they shine with a new, yet unmistakably familiar, light. For a lot of the youngsters out there, you may not have the slightest clue who Ride is. The band was formed [...]
Goldie The Journey Man Metalheadz/Cooking Vinyl The Journey Man, is, in fact, itself a journey. It’s got the backbeat sound that Goldie’s known for; a little bit of electronic, add some synths, and sometimes a sultry voice. The latter half of [...]
Pattern Language Total Squaresvielle Happy Robot Records What would be motorik in terms of music? I guess something to get you motorin’ down the Autobahn, or the open highway, if you are from Colorado like Chris Frain, aka Pattern Language. Or [...]
Moby And The Void Pacific Choir More Fast Songs About The Apocalypse Mute Records The genius of Moby is that you just never know what is going to come out of your speakers when you put on any album he releases. More Fast Songs About The [...]
The Fremonts We Don’t Live There Independent With haunting stories of contemporary American life and the compelling characters who people that landscape, The Fremonts’ debut full length We Don’t Live There has been at the top of my [...]
Phoenix Ti Amo Loyaute/Glassnote Records When this one hits the stores, I’ll be sitting back comfortably in my armchair waiting for the flak to start flying around by both critics and those who consider themselves Phoenix fans. I can tell you [...]
Pixx The Age Of Anxiety 4AD The “sound of the 80’s” has been creeping its way back into the music industry more and more lately. This synth pop sound is especially noticeable the moment The Age of Anxiety by Hannah Rodgers, known as Pixx, begins [...]
Sufjan Stevens, Nico Muhly, Bryce Dessner, James McAlister Planetarium 4AD 2017 is certainly shaping up to be the year of the album. This album has taken on almost mythical proportions. The group came together in 2012 for a performance at a [...]
Chuck Berry Chuck Dualtone Records Anyone who picks up an electric guitar and plays power chords, whether they know it or not, are saluting the original rock guitar hero, Chuck Berry. The twelve-year-old plugging away in his room may think he’s [...]
Prairie Cat Is Cary Pratt Fuzzy Logic Recordings Prairie Cat is Cary Pratt and Is Cary Pratt is the name of his latest release. Pratt is the lone member of the band, playing all the instruments, and writing the entire album. The album was [...]
London Grammar Truth Is A Beautiful Thing Ministry of Sound Recordings/Columbia Records British pop-trio London Grammar isn’t your mainstream, radio band. Their songs often span five and six minutes, featuring shorter verse lyrics and longer [...]
Alt-J Relaxer Atlantic Records/Infectious Music Leeds’ Alt-J reclaims their status as nerdy, literary indie-pop savants on their third full length LP, Relaxer. But before we talk about Relaxer, let’s talk context. Context is everything. As [...]
U2 The Joshua Tree (30th Anniversary Edition) Universal Music Music feeds nostalgia, it places moments in time, and for a certain generation, few records documented a time and place more precisely than U2’s fifth record, The Joshua Tree, in [...]
ShitKid Fish PNKSLM Recordings Sweden-based songwriter Åsa Söderqvist began releasing irreverent, bedroom-constructed garage pop under the name ShitKid on Soundcloud and Bandcamp early last year. It wasn’t long before audio streaming crate [...]
Amber Arcades Cannonball Heavenly Recordings Amber Arcade’s Cannonball EP is exactly what you would want out of a five track playlist from the sweet voice behind Fading Lines. Front-woman Annelotte de Graaf opens with a buoyant transformation of [...]
Dan Auerbach Waiting On A Song Nonesuch Records Waiting on a Song is Dan Auerbach’s soon to be gem. I hate to say it, but It’s better than most of the Black Keys’ recent albums. ‘Mellow’ is the best word to describe this album as the tracks are [...]
Saint Etienne Home Counties Heavenly Recordings Saint Etienne is a trio, who have been recording music since 1991. Their eighth release, Home Counties is their first album since 2012’s Words and Music by Saint Etienne, and to say this album is [...]
Sleep Party People Lingering Joyful Noise Recordings Sleep Party People is really Brian Batz, a Danish artist who has been recording since 2010. This is the fourth album by Batz under the name Sleep Party People, and the first album he has [...]
Bleachers Gone Now Sony Music Stop for a second, and you might miss Jack Antonoff’s next move. His career started in a small band called Outline, but really gained traction with Steel Train. The band would go on to record three albums from 2005 [...]
Headstones Little Army Cadence Music Since reforming in 2011, Kingston ’90s hard rock outfit Headstones have released one full length studio album, Love + Fury, as well as One In The Chamber Music, an acoustic album, along with a pair of [...]
Roger Waters Is This The Life We Really Want? Sony Music Roger Waters, one of the most consistently strong songwriters to emerge from the booming 1960s British invasion rock scene, has returned with Is This The Life We Really Want?, his first [...]
Lil Yachty Teenage Emotions Universal Music Canada At a time when rap seems sometimes to be drifting aimlessly, lingering in the doldrums, along comes Atlanta, Georgia’s Lil Yachty. Without going overboard about his flow, it is fair to say that [...]
Oh Susanna A Girl In Teen City Stella Records This album is a pleasant surprise. When I read the description of the record, I was a bit worried it would be full of angst and be self absorbed. I was wrong. It turned out to be a pleasant, [...]
