indie
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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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Big Thief’s second album of 2019 takes the band’s sound back to basics, which is far from a bad thing.
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If you have a relatively high threshold for lo-fi recordings, you should find Come in to be one of the year’s most creative and impassioned rock albums.
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Vivian Girls’ first album in almost a decade is their most abrasive yet.
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Sleater-Kinney tries new things throughout The Center Won’t Hold and, more often than not, they don’t pan out.
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Immunity is at its best when Clairo manages to find power in simplicity and subtlety, which happens only some of the time.
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David Berman’s wryly depressive (or depressively wry) songwriting seems to have only gotten sharper during his decade away from music.
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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.
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U.F.O.F. is mostly listenable—if a bit derivative—indie folk with a few flashes of brilliance sprinkled throughout the tracklist.
