chamber pop
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The emotionally potent and timely Carnage finds Nick Cave and Warren Ellis letting loose with the aesthetic they forged on the previous Bad Seeds trilogy.
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The Weather Station plays the sophisti-pop sound as safely as possible on Ignorance.
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Weezer’s 2021 output is off to a great start with OK Human.
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While Shore finds Fleet Foxes stumbling on a few risks, the album mostly serves to streamline the band’s sound and remind us what made them so special in the first place.
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Set My Heart on Fire Immediately covers even more aesthetic ground than No Shape did, only occasionally coming across as disjointed.
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Ana Frango Elétrico’s authentically vintage fusion of chamber pop, rock, samba, and jazz is a real blast!
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Some of Angel Olsen’s unique personality traits as a singer-songwriter sadly get lost in All Mirrors‘ grander instrumental palette.
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Lana Del Rey improves as a songwriter by leaps and bounds on NFR.
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In League with Dragons is missing just about everything that has made past Mountain Goats albums so great.
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I Am Easy to Find returns to the dullness of The National’s early 2010s output.
