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Kurt Vile: Bottle It In
Kurt Vile: Bottle It In Album Review by Josh Goller → Read More
Phosphorescent: C’est La Vie
Phosphorescent: C’est La Vie Album Review by Josh Goller → Read More
Orbital: Monsters Exist
Orbital: Monsters Exist Album Review by Josh Goller → Read More
Anna Calvi: Hunter
Anna Calvi recently told the Evening Standard that she feels she's always made queer music, and therefore doesn't consider her third album, Hunter, a coming-out moment, but the British singer-songwriter has never expressed her gender fluidity as directly as she does here. She ponders whether more fully embracing her masculinity would allow her to understand her lover on the jaunty “As a Man,”… → Read More
Wild Nothing: Indigo
Singer-songwriter Jack Tatum seeks tranquility amid the disorienting thrum of a chaotic world on Wild Nothing's fourth album, Indigo. The band eschews the forays into shoegaze and '60s psych-rock that marked 2016's Life on Pause in favor of synth-pop and yacht rock that vividly evokes the lazy days of summer. Jaunty basslines, shimmering guitar, bright synth washes, and sultry sax seamlessly gel… → Read More
Interpol: Marauder
For their sixth studio album, Marauder, Interpol brought in an outside producer for the first time in over a decade. Dave Fridmann, best known for his work with Mercury Rev and the Flaming Lips, encouraged the New York trio to commit their music to analog tape by recording over each previous take in a process frontman Paul Banks has referred to as “destructive recording.” The result is an album… → Read More
Florence and the Machine: High As Hope
Florence and the Machine: High As Hope Album Review by Josh Goller → Read More
Nine Inch Nails: Bad Witch
Nine Inch Nails: Bad Witch Album Review by Josh Goller → Read More
Lykke Li: So Sad So Sexy
Lykke Li: So Sad So Sexy Album Review by Josh Goller → Read More
Neko Case: Hell-On
Untamed natural forces drive much of the poetic storytelling on Neko Case's seventh album, Hell-On, but the singer-songwriter remains most concerned with the volatility of human nature. Though the album's title and cover art—in which Case wears a cluster of cigarettes on her head and appears to light her hair aflame—may hint at a fixation on self-destruction, the theme of persevering in the face… → Read More
Chvrches: Love Is Dead
Chvrches: Love Is Dead Album Review by Josh Goller → Read More
Parquet Courts: Wide Awake!
Parquet Courts: Wide Awake! Album Review by Josh Goller → Read More
Okkervil River: In the Rainbow Rain
Okkervil River: In the Rainbow Rain Album Review by Josh Goller → Read More
Alexis Taylor: Beautiful Thing
Alexis Taylor: Beautiful Thing Album Review by Josh Goller → Read More
Brazilian Girls: Let’s Make Love
Brazilian Girls: Let’s Make Love Album Review by Josh Goller → Read More
Eels: The Deconstruction
Eels: The Deconstruction Album Review by Josh Goller → Read More
The Voidz: Virtue Album Review by Josh Goller
When Julian Casablancas looks at the modern world, he sees the increasingly blurry distinction between lies and truth. On Virtue, his second album with the Voidz, the New York rocker ponders whether it's possible to, as he told Vulture, “make complex truth sexy.” He attempts this feat with a more eclectic approach than on the Voidz's frustratingly abrasive 2014 debut, Tyranny. With Virtue,… → Read More
Shannon and the Clams: Onion
Shannon and the Clams: Onion Album Review by Josh Goller → Read More
Franz Ferdinand: Always Ascending
Franz Ferdinand: Always Ascending Album Review by Josh Goller → Read More
Tune-Yards: I Can Feel You Creep Into My Private Life
The album promotes a personal reckoning of one's complicity in an increasingly toxic culture. → Read More