U.F.O.F. is mostly listenable—if a bit derivative—indie folk with a few flashes of brilliance sprinkled throughout the tracklist.
Vampire Weekend embraces quantity over quality on Father of the Bride.
Mac DeMarco pares his songwriting down to something more minimal on Here Comes the Cowboy, losing a lot of personality along the way.
Confessions is far and away Logic’s worst rap album.
A Quiet Farwell is an inventive and consistently stimulating collage of underground hip hop and various strands of abstract music.
Gus Dapperton’s debut album is a shoddy mix of all the most agreeable sounds to have been popularized in the indie scene over the past decade.
Fishing for Fishies is a fun and eco-friendly boogie rock odyssey.
Anger Management finds Rico Nasty continuing to be one of the boldest voices in the current rap landscape, but the project’s brevity is unfortunately to its detriment.
CrasH Talk sounds strangely dated and is a disappointingly safe effort from Q following Blank Face.
Life Metal is Sunn O)))’s best sounding album to date, though not their most adventurous.
