Album Review: Amber Coffman – “City of No Reply”

For her first solo album City of No Reply Amber Coffman, formerly of the Dirty Projectors, has crafted a batch of songs that largely evoke the struggle of learning to love yourself, and know that you are enough. The first song on…

Melody on Music: Texturized Heartbreak

Editor’s note: From 2012 to 2014, Melody Rice wrote the music column Matt on Music for The Eastern Echo, the student newspaper for Eastern Michigan University. In 2016, Melody relaunched this column on The Young Folks. You can read past installments…

Album Review: Dirty Projectors — “Dirty Projectors”

Perhaps more so than usual, especially of late, I walk away from Dirty Projectors’ latest, self-titled album Dirty Projectors of two different, maddeningly inconsistent minds. The first album to come from the band in five years, it’s both a self-pitying,…