Radiohead’s latest LP is a fan-pleasing piece of work. It’s loaded with beautiful and well-recorded sounds, and even Thom Yorke’s songwriting shows some muscle with moments like “Lotus Flower” and “Separator.” But there’s something that clicks away and eats away at the first half of this
Nicolas Jaar’s debut LP is a dark exercise in bleak dance beats, sound collages, and ambient interludes. Though the album doesn’t come off with a clear intent, Space Is Only Noise makes for a really heady and beautiful listen. What makes this album attractive isn’t exactly obvious
When it comes to black metal, Vreid’s V is as melodic and thrashy as they come. It’s actually difficult to simply call it a black metal album. The production is fantastic, and the musicianship is impressive during a lot of the solos, too. The issue I’m having
With all of this Odd Future buzz going around, the hip hop world seems pretty noisy right now, but I don’t want this to go unnoticed: Fresno rapper Fashawn has just dropped his latest mixtape, Higher Learning 2. It’s an army of new flows featuring beats that sample
I don’t really care for Lil B’s latest album. He seems like a nice guy, though. WATCH THE REVIEW
Boris will be releasing two new albums on 4/26, and one, I’m guessing, will be heading in a much different direction. The song “Party Boy” comes off one of the two albums due to be released, Attention Please. Is this track for you? Find out in this review.
Mogwai’s latest album is a potent concentrate of the band’s usual formula. Rather than varying in volume throughout a given song, the compositions here concentrate on adding more and more layers of guitars, keys, and effects as each song progresses. It’s pretty krautrock of them if you
New video for the Mogwai track “Mexican Grand Prix.” Does anybody else think this track breathes “krautrock”? Check my review of the band’s new LP, Hardcore Will Never Die, but You Will right here. Look for the album on Sub Pop. –
New York’s Beach Fossils are readying a new EP via Captured Tracks titled What A Pleasure. The first track to drop from it, “Out In the Way,” actually features Wild Nothing’s Jack Tatum. Nice! Listen for some lo-fi production, jangly guitars, and dreamy vocals. What A Pleasure comes
T,TC’s latest single goes down the same dark road we saw him on in Bastard. His flow and rhymes are better than ever, but I’m still hesitant to jump into the foxhole and start fighting for the future of Odd Future. There’s a ton of potential
