2012
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The latest Magnetic Fields album sees the band returning to form a bit with the incorporation of synthesizers, but it just doesn’t feel like the old days, to me. WATCH THE REVIEW
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Beach House drops a new track titled “Myth,” which is from the duo’s newly announced album, Bloom. After improving their recording quality on Devotion, and increasing the variety of sounds in their music on Teen Dream, Beach House seems content to settle on the advances they’ve made with
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Mississippi rapper Big K.R.I.T. drops another monstrous free album, making 4evaNaDay the third installment in a winning streak of consistent and high-quality digital releases. WATCH THE REVIEW
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This is a series of short spiels discussing albums that I’ve failed to review for the past month or so. Sorry I didn’t get to them. I would have liked to, but I’m just one man. I can’t review everything. Here are the albums and artists
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On March 19th, Austrian singer-songwriter Anja Franziska Plaschg will be dropping her second album under the Soap&Skin pseudonym, Narrow. “Wonder” is the second track to drop from the album, and the track is as simple as it is painful. Anja’s weary voice coos softly over gently played
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A new collaborative track and video from Dumbo Gets Mad and Venice. Keeping in line with 2011’s Elephants At the Door, DGM and Venice load this psychedelic pop track with odd sound effects and bouncy, retro synths. A fun, little tidbit to follow up last year’s DGM debut.
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MP3 Singers Stasia Irons and Catherine Harris-White make up THEESatisfaction, which is an underground R&B and soul project dropping an album in March on Sub Pop. The title: awE naturaLE. You probably caught the project’s two members on the Shabazz Palaces album, Black Up, that dropped last
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For the past several days, I’ve been listening to the new Napalm Death album, Utilitarian. I was sorta lukewarm on it at first, but now I’m coming around; however, I feel like this new band-directed video is throwing me back into a pit of emotional ambiguity. For a
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With WZRD, rapper Kid cudi tries his hand at producing a rock-influenced record with a longtime associate of his, Dot Da Genius. While many of the elements are here, what’s ultimately lacking is passion. WATCH THE REVIEW
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March 20th / Alternative Tentacles Track list: 1. Rat 2. Decay 3. No Chance 4. Pigeon 5. Metropolis 6. Ghost 7. Don’t 8. Stuck 9. Roach 10. Ha Ha Ha
