On last year’s Together at Last, Jeff Tweedy stripped down some of his lengthy career’s most beloved tunes, presenting them as intimate, acousti…
Album Review: Poppy – “Am I a Girl?”
After a contentious lawsuit and a relocation to Japan, Poppy has returned with Am I a Girl?, a year after releasing her first studio album. After risi…
Album Review: Rita Ora – “Phoenix”
Hardly born with the gift of a golden voice, Rita Ora will have to come up with inventive ways to sound appealing in the cutthroat business of pop mus…
Album Review: The 1975 – “A Brief Inquiry Into Online Relationships”
Whenever one talks about The 1975, it comes with a slight turn of the head and a sharp side-eye. As they wisely pointed out in the video for “The Soun…
Album Review: Sleep – “The Sciences”
Although their career is far from prolific, each of Sleep’s towering releases makes a new crop of metalheads stop and take notice. Even without any ne…
Album Review: J.I.D – “Dicaprio 2”
In an age where lyrical ability in hip hop is becoming more and more irrelevant, Atlanta rapper J.I.D sticks out like a sore thumb. Everything he̵…
Album Review: Sun Kil Moon – “This is My Dinner”
The third leg of Mark Kozelek’s career has been an interesting one, to say the least. The former Red House Painters frontman has gone from being…