With Bend Beyond, Woods makes the most noticeable change of their past three records with a serious attitude adjustment, presenting more warm, bright, and inviting songs than ever. WATCH THE REVIEW
Cumbia supergroup Ondatrópica puts over forty musicians to work on what might be the most essential Latin music record of 2012. WATCH THE REVIEW
On their fourth album, New York black metal outfit delivers roughly the same sound they’ve been working with for the previous three. However, despite the lack of shockingly new ideas, the band proves to hold a lot of compositional power in the methodically fine-tuned progressive black metal style they’
Radiohead’s Thom Yorke drops a new track from his Atoms For Peace project. Originally, it seemed to be an assembly of musicians used to play live renditions of material from 2009’s the Eraser. Now, with a full-length album on the way, Atoms For Peace is becoming so much
Experimental hip hop outfit Death Grips closes out the 2012 edition of Adult Swims summer singles series with a track named after the trio’s Twitter handle. WATCH THE REVIEW
On their sophomore effort, London dream pop outfit the xx drum up more of the skeletal, emotive style their first album delivered. WATCH THE REVIEW
On his latest effort, Dan Deacon starts fleshing his heavily electronic and classically influenced compositions with some top-notch orchestral instrumentation. WATCH THE REVIEW
Mount Eerie drops the second album that was promised in 2012, and while it is a bit more aggressive than its predecessor, Clear Moon, it’s surprisingly disjointed. WATCH THE REVIEW
On his third full-length album, Swedish singer-songwriter Jens Lekman returns with a more simplistic approach, toning down the extremely colorful instrumentation that coated his last LP. Thankfully, the man’s charm and wit is all this album needs to stay afloat. WATCH THE REVIEW
With Centipede Hz, experimental music outfit Animal Collective is following its poppiest album, 2009’s Merriweather Post Pavilion, with one of its most hectic.
