Pop
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Florence + The Machine pull together a succinct and tastefully written pop record on their latest effort here, How Big, How Blue, How Beautiful.
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Unknown Mortal Orchestra comes through with their most eerie, catchy, soulful, and idiosyncratic record yet.
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Hot Chip embraces house music and takes some vocal risks on their new record.
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The bubbly and danceable singles from Shamir’s debut LP are fun and fantastic, but the rest of Ratchet is weighed down by a series of off-the-mark ballads.
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Ohio pop/rap/rock/electronic music duo Twenty One Pilots chases 2013’s breakout Vessel with a series of radio pop and reggae-infused tunes on Blurryface.
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Electronic music producer Holly Herndon’s latest release here is an expansion of the glitchy and abstract ideas on her last album, tossing some art pop tracks into the mix in the process.
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On their major label debut, Hiatus Kaiyote delivers over an hour of faintly adventurous neo-soul.
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The previously loved Perfume Genius tags some visuals onto the Too Bright cut “Fool,” which had me curious considering the track features a completely unexpected ambient pop-style interlude right in the middle of its run-time. How exactly would this musical transition be handled? Well, with violet curtains, a feather boa,
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Download: The Neighbourhood – #000000 & #FFFFFF A producer needs a very convincing aesthetic on a mixtape in order to get cooperation from all of his collaborators. The way that every rapper on this tape steps into the atmospheric world and plays their character speaks volumes to the world’s authenticity.
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New York chiptune outfit Anamanaguchi are gearing up for another album cycle in 2015, and the title of this forthcoming release will be [USA]. While many automatically think of 8-bit music when the name Anamanaguchi comes up, the band’s last full-length touched down on a variety of genres: Japanese
