I don’t believe those that claim this album can be listened to as a completely separate “work of art” from the Disney remake. After all, every other track is an audio snippet from the film. It doesn’t…
Album Review: Big K.R.I.T. – “K.R.I.T. IZ HERE”
Big K.R.I.T. is getting some traction, and this fourth album from the Mississippi rapper has attained some measure of commercial success. Promoted by four singles of varying quality, it’s been markete…
Album Review: Hot Chip – “A Bath Full of Ecstasy”
Hot Chip have always had a streak of violence in them, most memorably in the title track of The Warning which warned: “Hot Chip will break your legs/Snap off your head/Hot Chip will put you down…
Album Review: Kate Tempest – “The Book of Traps and Lessons”
Because I like almost everything about Kate Tempest and her music/poetry (she won the Ted Hughes Award for poetry before she made her name as a rapper), I was less dismayed than usual to read early re…
Album Review: Sebadoh – “Act Surprised”
They long ago abandoned the lo-fi aesthetic that made them famous, and Sebaoh’s latest is another set of slick rock songs. Whether that’s a good thing or not will depend on your level of saturation wi…
Album Review: Rhiannon Giddens & Francesco Turrisi – “There is No Other”
Rhiannon Giddens is a folk singer in the truest sense of the world: she spins yarns to music about ordinary American folk, tracing a lineage of suffering for her people that stretches right back to wh…
Album Review: Vampire Weekend – “Father of the Bride”
Once the disappointment wanes that there’s nothing on here as stunning as “Diane Young” or “Hannah Hunt” (although lead single “Harmony Hall” comes pretty close), you’ll quickly fall in love with …