Rina mostly lets go of her alternative edge on Hold the Girl. Hold The Girl by Rina Sawayama
The quality songwriting at the core of TMV is squandered by the band’s drabbest sound palettes to date.
A step up from her already auspicious debut.
The Garden’s punchiest record so far. Horseshit on Route 66 by The Garden
Even on a shorter project like this, Yeat’s sound has trouble going the distance.
An oddball pop debut with plenty of beauty. I Love You Jennifer B by Jockstrap
When the world needed NAV the most, he returned.
Darnielle & co.’s most thematically focused and hardest-hitting project since Goths, but the results are still a little mixed. Bleed Out by The Mountain Goats
Megadeth’s latest has a few highlights, but repulses in greater measure.
Already Ghais has a knack for standout bars and samples. There Will Be No Super-Slave by Ghais Guevara