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 …
Album Review: The Mountain Goats – “In League With Dragons”
In League With Dragons is no more a concept album about Dungeons & Dragons than Sgt. Pepper is a concept album about its titular band: in both instances most of the actual songs on the r…
Album Review: The O’Jays – “The Last Word”
You guessed it from the album title: this is the last collection of music we’re going to get from the vocal group who helped to usher in the Philly soul sound back in 1972 with “Back Stabbers” the sin…
Album Review: The Chemical Brothers – “No Geography”
In their awesome 90s run, The Chemical Brothers revitalised The Beatles’ Revolver for the techno age and hence turned their newfound genre, big beat, into every rock n’ roll fan’s favourite …
Album Review: Khalid – “Free Spirit”
Yeah, he could never be young, dumb and broke forever. We knew that. And like any teen who goes platinum with their first album, the road to maturity that lies ahead is filled with all sorts of perils…