Category: RECORD REVIEWS
Essential New Music: Lykke Li’s “Youth Novels”
As if her name wasn’t an obvious clue, Lykke Li is Scandanavian through and through. Her debut could be mistaken
JENNIFER O’CONNOR: Here With Me [Matador]
Things have never been better for Jennifer O’Connor—career-wise, at least—but you wouldn’t know it by listening to her ruminative fourth
THE WALKMEN: You & Me [Gigantic]
As an attempt to move beyond the post-punk noisiness of 2006’s A Hundred Miles Off, the fourth proper Walkmen album
Essential New Music: Shannon McArdle’s “Summer Of The Whore”
Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned, especially if she happens to be a songwriter with the means to
DAFT PUNK: Electroma DVD [Vice]
Those wondering where Daft Punk’s creative juices went during the period between 2001’s Discovery and 2005’s Human After All might
VARIOUS ARTISTS: Chamber Music [Fire] / STEPHEN EMMER: Recitement [Supertracks]
When did setting poetry to music become cool again, you ask? Well, it didn’t, of course. Ask around on the

















