vlog
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Mike Patton and company make Oddfellows a step back toward their experimental and alternative rock sound, abandoning the Native American music influences that made Anonymous such a strangely spicy album. However, it’s still a pretty odd, catchy collection of tracks–with a few undeniable potholes, unfortunately. WATCH THE REVIEW
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Just a quick group of quick and cursory reviews of various songs and releases that I didn’t get a chance to talk about this week. Thank you for watching! WATCH THE REVIEW
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On their sophomore full-length, New York’s Buke and Gase continue fine-tuning their unique combination of noise pop, folk, and indie rock with loads of strangely idiosyncratic melodies and textures. WATCH THE REVIEW
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On Comadre’s new, self-titled album, the California screamo outfit releases one of the catchier albums I’ve heard in the genre for a long time. WATCH THE REVIEW
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On This Town Needs Guns’–now officially shortened to “TTNG”–sophomore full-length, the band is premiering a new singer and a slightly smoother math rock sound. WATCH THE REVIEW
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This time around, the singer-songwriter duo known as Foxygen writes an album with much more focus and cohesion than 2011’s Take the Kids off Broadway. 21st Century Ambassadors is simply one neatly crafted retro pop jam after another. WATCH THE REVIEW
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On this new album, Toro Y Moi is able to maintain many of the grooves that have continually made this project interesting, but the newly added vocal samples, vocal experiments, and songs don’t go over well much of the time. WATCH THE REVIEW
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New York’s Pro Era drops one of the freshest throwback mixtapes in hop hop, putting themselves at the forefront of this new, nostalgic wave in rap. WATCH THE REVIEW
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Yo La Tengo’s latest effort, Fade, is one of the band’s softest and most consistent efforts yet. WATCH THE REVIEW
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Screamo outfit Circle Takes the Square are back with their first full length in about 8 years. WATCH THE REVIEW
