Category: RECORD REVIEWS

Four Tet is usually all about addition, juxtaposition and harmonious collision of potentially incompatible elements. This half-hour EP feels like

Not much happens on Russian Circles’ sophomore album. In fact, you’ll be nearly three minutes into the opening “Campaign” before

For more than a decade, Drew Daniel and MC Schmidt have been taking electronica for a joyride. They’ve sampled liposuction

The Constantines have always come across as a hard-working outfit, but on the 12-track Kensington Heights, they seem for the

Sean Scolnick has one hell of a band behind him. Anybody who’s felt its force in a live setting can

Nobody said loving Tindersticks was easy. Since 1992, the Nottingham, England, outfit has pursued a sonic and lyrical palette according

There’s an old saw about sophomore records: You get a decade to write your first record and four months to

It’s hard to imagine, nearly three decades down the line, improving on what the Replacements did in their 11-year tenure

If your John Reis fix has been sated in recent years via his signature fretwork in Hot Snakes, it might

When Pepi Ginsberg opens her mouth to sing, countercultural throwback signifiers come spiraling out: rose-tinted glasses, patchouli clouds, gypsy skirts,

The too-easy quip about Other People is that it sounds like, well, other people. But unless you’ve been watching MTV

When Charles Thompson resurrected his Black Francis moniker for last year’s hard-rocking Bluefinger full-length, the results were uneven but fun.

Even though a sizable chunk of the indie community worships the Radar Bros., the L.A. outfit’s narcotic qualities typically prove

What’s that? An audible, intelligible voice? Singing lyrics that rhyme, in metered cadences? Yes, indeed. In violation of nearly every