6/10
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Jack of all musical trades Jim O’Rourke makes a colorfully arranged return to pop music with Simple Songs.
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Blanck Mass’ sophomore LP takes the noisy, texture, drone-laced production of Fuck Buttons, and lays it against a varied series of electronic music styles.
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Electronic music producer Holly Herndon’s latest release here is an expansion of the glitchy and abstract ideas on her last album, tossing some art pop tracks into the mix in the process.
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Singer-songwriter Kristian Matsson, a.k.a. The Tallest Man On Earth, lets the instrumental floodgates break on his latest album.
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A Danish experimental rock band with connections to underground music acts such as Iceage, Vår, Lower, and Sexdrome makes their Sacred Bones Records debut.
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Super producer Tom Jenkinson releases a series of glitched and overwhelming takes on drum ‘n’ bass, dubstep, and more.
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West Coast electronic music producer Shlohmo releases a particularly dark album with Dark Red.
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Earl Sweatshirt’s latest release is noticeably darker than his last, but it doesn’t necessarily surpass it.
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Godspeed You! Black Emperor hangs in their comfort zone on this new, relatively unambitious record of theirs.
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Athens indie vets of Montreal return with their usual blend of verbose, difficult lyricism, and colorful psychedelic pop rock.
