Ian Cohen
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Screaming Females: Desire Pathway Album Review
The New Jersey band turns in another solid album of old-school riffs and ripping solos, but the songs stop just short of the radio-rock anthems they want to become. → Read More
파란노을 (Parannoul): After the Magic Album Review
On the South Korean artist’s astounding third album, the past and the present, the real and the fake dissolve seamlessly into surreal, maximalist pop music. → Read More
M83: “Oceans Niagara” Track Review
Returning to a pop culture landscape that reflects his band’s own neon image, Anthony Gonzalez seeks to show the M83 copycats how it’s done. → Read More
Current: Yesterday’s Tomorrow Is Not Today Album Review
A totemic box set from Numero Group collects the output of the Midwestern emo band, whose melodic, sentimental take on D.C. hardcore served as a microcosm of the genre’s transition. → Read More
파란노을 (Parannoul) / Asian Glow: Paraglow EP Album Review
A new joint release from the Seoul artists feels like a true collaboration, fusing their distinct styles with shoegaze production and alt-rock guitars. → Read More
Birds in Row: Gris Klein Album Review
The French trio’s third album trends towards accessibility without losing its taste for the visceral pleasures of more technical post-hardcore. → Read More
Preoccupations: Arrangements Album Review
Grim, grey, and dour, the Canadian band’s fourth album offers a bleak look at the world and delivers some new textures but lacks some of the musical tension to really create sparks. → Read More
Phoenix: “Tonight” [ft. Ezra Koenig] Track Review
The chic, Ezra Koenig-assisted lead single from Alpha Zulu seizes joyfully on millennial nostalgia. → Read More
Jouska: Visions From the Bridge Album Review
Originally intended for release in 2018, the second album from the short-lived Philadelphia-via-Albany DIY band is a pristine time capsule powered by lo-fi ingenuity. → Read More
Pool Kids: Pool Kids
Filled with gut punch hooks, the Tallahassee band’s second album is carried by their battle-tested friendship and irrepressible chemistry. → Read More
Interpol: The Other Side of Make-Believe Album Review
With slight changes in disposition and geography, the New York band’s seventh record strives toward a refreshed sound and outlook. → Read More
Greet Death: New Low EP
The Flint, Michigan, doomgazers’ follow-up to 2019’s New Hell dabbles in new styles while doubling down on the unrelenting misery. → Read More
Foals: Life Is Yours Album Review
Foals’ streamlined seventh album does away with their trickier instrumental interplay and subtler emotions, leaving nothing at all open to interpretation. → Read More
Porridge Radio: Waterslide, Diving Board, Ladder to the Sky Album Review
Broadening its sound and tightening its lyrical focus, the Brighton post-punk band conjures mantras of despair and anthems of pure frustration. → Read More
Sunflower Bean: Headful of Sugar Album Review
On its latest album, the New York band works hard to sound effortless, hindered by inert performances and unconvincing lyrics. → Read More
Heriot: Profound Morality Album Review
The debut EP from the UK metalcore revivalists is a triumph of concision. Whatever you like about the genre, you can find it here. → Read More
Prince Daddy & the Hyena: Prince Daddy & the Hyena Album Review
The Albany emo band takes a big swing with a concept album about the meaning of death, reimagining mall-emo, alt-rock, and pop-punk with a theatrical flourish that all works surprisingly well. → Read More
Vein.fm: This World Is Going to Ruin You Album Review
The second album from the Boston hardcore group is a tentative push toward accessibility, exploding its sound in new directions while nodding to familiar touchstones. → Read More
caroline: caroline Album Review
Five years in the making, the UK band’s debut accomplishes something nearly impossible for a largely instrumental post-rock album: to project urgency and timelessness simultaneously. → Read More
Anxious: Little Green House Album Review
The Connecticut quintet’s debut is the work of pop-punk professionals, modeled after the genre’s mainstream breakthroughs in the early 2000s. → Read More