Category: RECORD REVIEWS

Essential New Music: Beauty Pill’s “Beauty Pill Describes Things As They Are”

On its first album in 10 years, D.C. band Beauty Pill takes a sledgehammer to boundaries and orthodoxies. Prior releases

Rock ‘n’ roll doesn’t get any better than this. Period. These three albums—1990’s We Are They Who Ache With Amorous

Even when a mere year separated the release of Low Cut Connie’s second album from its first, the energetic combo

Since 1994, the Danish indie rockers in Mew have found interesting and engaging ways to bend progressive rock into exotic

In an about-face to the insular world of American noise music, which he’d been the preeminent voice of for nearly

A curiously self-titled Wire album betrays a lack of new ideas When a band names its debut after itself, the

May 19, 2015 / RECORD REVIEWS

“So much that I can’t say to you,” Mark Kozelek croons on “Drop,” a raw, ethereal epic toward the end

R.I.P. MAGNET Senior Writer Jonathan Valania