Review: Lorde – “Pure Heroine”
Talk is cheap but Lorde’s debut shows how a young talent can dominate with a emotional and dynamic record.
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Review: Justin Timberlake – “The 20/20 Experience 2 Of 2”
JT’s penmanship is cheesy at times but Part 2 reinterprets pop music and presents yet another guilty pleasure.
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Review: Stray From The Path – “Anonymous”
As the Long Island outfit show, it’ll years before anyone can copy Anonymous and its shift in pitch and lyrical execution.
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Review: The Flatliners – “Dead Language”
Even in the face of anxiety and an unclear future, The Flatliners’ find a way to hit every note like they fucking mean it.
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Review: The Weeknd – “Kiss Land”
Abel has come out of the shadows of half naked models but his debut still settles for an eerie world of anxiety.
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Review: Arctic Monkeys – “AM”
The Monkeys barely write the same tunes and it’s why AM – aka “girlfriend music” – revels in drop dead experimentation.
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Review: Balance And Composure – “The Things We Think We’re Missing”
The Doylestown, PA, outfit have confronted memories and maturity, and in turn, have written one of the decade’s best LPs.
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Review: Chelsea Wolfe – “Pain Is Beauty”
Chelsea Wolfe didn’t exactly write a break-up album with Pain Is Beauty, but it certainly grates a bleeding heart.
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Review: King Krule – “6 Feet Beneath The Moon”
Like the Dreamworks kid, Archy Marshall is content being on his podium because there’s so much more to come.
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Review: Earl Sweatshirt – “Doris”
An 8-bit grayscale piece, Doris rotates moods, producers and guests to create causalities and a definitive identity.
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