Album Review: Interpol – “Marauder”

Let’s face it, Interpol were by some distance the dullest band of the early 2000s indie-rock revival wave. Yet I had enough admiration for 2004’s Antics – in my view, their best, a solid rock album – to have followed…

Album Review: M. Ward – “What a Wonderful Industry”

For the rebellious folkie in all of us, the idea behind M. Ward’s What a Wonderful Industry feels brilliant at first glance—or, perhaps, ridiculously self-important depending on who you ask. It is, after all, a proclaimed criticism of the very…