6/10
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Though an improvement on his previous solo effort, Kurt Vile’s new album could have used some trimming.
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Russian dance music outfit Little Big continue to drop supremely weird, provocative rave music.
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Apart from the slightly improved production quality and a couple of stylistic risks, Electric Messiah is a pretty standard High on Fire album.
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ZillaKami and SosMula bring a ton of bark and not too much else to this debut City Morgue album.
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Mudboy is one of the oddest trap rap albums I’ve heard in a while.
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Among Tim Hecker’s least direct efforts, Konoyo at its best is sonically and conceptually rich thanks to contributions from gagaku ensemble Tokyo Gakuso. Unfortunately, the sound-play is lacking on a few of the pieces.
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Lil Wayne is in rare form on the best parts of his fifth installment of the Carter series, but bogs this album’s full potential down in a number of underwhelming cuts too.
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While it’s certainly pleasant and stands out in the current mainstream music landscape, Hozier’s latest EP doesn’t offer much that indie songwriters and folk artists haven’t done better in the past couple of decades.
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Abstract hip hop fans ought to give budding ornithologists a shot, even if it isn’t one of Milo’s standout albums.
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$uicideBoy$’s debut album delivers a dark and grimy vibe, but the duo hasn’t evolved much artistically since they first started turning heads on Soundcloud.
