art rock
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Re-Animator finds Everything Everything taking a few more risks than on A Fever Dream, but hits similar lows.
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Even as it gets more of a pulse going in a new wave direction, Petals for Armor is a disappointingly derivative debut.
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The more direct and tuneful approach King Krule takes on Man Alive! makes it—to my ears—a vast improvement over The Ooz.
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Everyday Life is a well-produced but unfocused album with an incomplete message.
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Richard Dawson outdoes himself with this modernist spiritual successor to 2017’s Peasant.
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With Tranquility Base Hotel + Casino, Arctic Monkeys aim for an admirably weird space-age lounge sound, but often the execution leaves something to be desired.
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Iceage dials down the abrasiveness and theatricality on the still pretty solid Beyondless.
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Jack White’s Boarding House Reach is his most unorthodox stroke of genius since going solo.
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Following the (fraternal) twin lead singles “Leave It in My Dreams” and “QYURRYUS,” The Voidz have shared “Pointlessness,” the closing track of their sophomore album Virtue. As the title suggests, the song is a bit of a downer in both theme and sonic palette, but judging from this and Tyranny
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King Krule returns with a series of vague, moody musical sketches
