REVIEW: Wintersleep – “Hello Hum”
Starting with the swirling, multi-faceted “Hum”, Wintersleep’s fifth album builds through some jovial guitar riffs before crashing and…
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REVIEW: Metric – “Synthetica”
Balancing what’s real and what’s artificial, Metric appear as if they’re having a difficult time shaping Synthetica into the superior indie…
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REVIEW: Architects – “Daybreaker”
At some capacity, the Brighton four-piece have never really found it problematic to be novel. Their fifth record, Daybreaker, tears the eyes…
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REVIEW: Sigur Ros – “Valtari”
Approaching 20 years together making music, Icelandic ambienteers Sigur Ros have gone in a somewhat more subdued, but nonetheless…
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REVIEW: Japandroids – “Celebration Rock”
Japandroids don’t do quiet. It’s why the Vancouver duo’s second record hangs onto a rib-shaking mentality and pushes out the motive to…
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REVIEW: The Walkmen – “Heaven”
Even in its most tender, lovesick heart-dusting moments, Heaven unravels in your arms to show it’s mature. Compared to the rest of the…
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REVIEW: El-P – “Cancer For Cure”
If hip-hop is a poetic form of culture, is there a limit on how creative you can be? If there is one, Brooklyn mic wrangler El-P knows how to…
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REVIEW: Beach House – “Bloom”
From “Saltwater” to “Irene”, the Baltimore duo have been able to encapsulate feelings and sounds and let them reign free across visual…
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REVIEW: Killer Mike – “R.A.P. Music”
From the get-go, it’s clear that R.A.P. Music isn’t a slouching ambassador of what rap should be. Maybe it’s fellow MC El-P’s distinctive…
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REVIEW: Silversun Pickups – “Neck Of The Woods”
Neck of the Woods is the third album from L.A.’s Silversun Pickups, and the most recent since 2009’s Swoon, which featured their first…
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