album review
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On Pianos Become the Teeth’s sophomore LP, the band sports all the qualities I look for in a screamo group. However, they stop short of separating themselves from many of the bands in this style. WATCH THE REVIEW
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On My Brightest Diamond’s newest album, singer-songwriter Shara Worden releases another set of heavily orchestrated art pop tunes. This time, many of the lyrical themes revolve heavily around relationships. WATCH THE REVIEW
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Tom Waits’ latest album, rather than showing a new side to the eccentric singer-songwriter, it somewhat of a retrospective, revisiting the numerous sounds that have made this guy so “bad” for all these years. WATCH THE REVIEW
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On Civil Civic’s debut album, the duo has backed up its past singles with new material, and made a move to revamp drum machine rock. WATCH THE REVIEW
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New audio album review! Yes! Just like the Big Troubles review, I’m accompanied by my good friend Derek Ljongquist. First off, I want to APOLOGIZE for the terrible quality of this audio recording. I had technical difficulties recording this Skype conversation, and I find it funny that I review
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Simply put, Wilco’s latest album is a huge rise in pop energy compared to the band’s last two releases, pumping out numerous catchy, straightforward rock tunes and ballads. WATCH THE REVIEW
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On the Future Islands’ new album, they continue breeding the simple, bare, and dramatic style of synth pop that caught ears in 2010 on the group’s last album, In Evening Air. WATCH THE REVIEW
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On his latest solo effort, legendary producer 9th Wonder invites some of his favorite MCs to spit over his beats and celebrate his relevancy as a fixture in hip hop. WATCH THE REVIEW
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On his first official full-length album on Roc Nation, rapper and producer J. Cole takes the talents he’s been perfecting on past mixtapes and goes big time with them. WATCH THE REVIEW
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Ah, the new Opeth record. Was I expecting to like this? No. Was I hoping I’d like this? Yes! A big, fat “yes,” actually. I’ve never been an Opeth fan. Their melodic and almost overproduced take on death metal–and progressive metal, generally–just doesn’t have anything
