Having released a truly astonishing debut (one of our favorites of 2019), Crows might have easily fallen into a sophomore slump, especially with the Album Reviews
Crows
Beware Believers
May 2nd, 2022 | by Stephen Slaybaugh | published in Album Reviews | Leave A Comment »
Having released a truly astonishing debut (one of our favorites of 2019), Crows might have easily fallen into a sophomore slump, especially with the
Johnny Marr
Fever Dreams Pts. 1–4
February 22nd, 2022 | by Stephen Slaybaugh | published in Album Reviews | Leave A Comment »
It’s been more than 30 years since The Smiths broke up and yet the band’s music remains hallowed ground despite their obstreperous mouthpiece continuing
Spoon
Lucifer on the Sofa
February 15th, 2022 | by Stephen Slaybaugh | published in Album Reviews | Leave A Comment »
It’s tempting to call Spoon’s latest, Lucifer on the Sofa (Matador Records), a return to form, but aside from a couple of mediocre albums midway through their
Arab Strap
As Days Get Dark
March 17th, 2021 | by Stephen Slaybaugh | published in Album Reviews | Leave A Comment »
Someone once said that suffering breeds great art, but I wonder what they would have made of a year spent dealing with a global pandemic. For 20 years
Adulkt Life
Book of Curses
November 16th, 2020 | by Stephen Slaybaugh | published in Album Reviews | Leave A Comment »
With the band including members of Huggy Bear and Male Bonding, it’s hard not to have high expectations for the debut album from Adulkt Life, Book of Curses
Melenas
Dias Raros
June 29th, 2020 | by Stephen Slaybaugh | published in Album Reviews | Leave A Comment »
Melenas, which translates roughly to “heads of hair,” are an all-female quartet hailing from Pamplona, Spain (yep, of bulls running through the streets fame)
Wire
Mind Hive
February 12th, 2020 | by Stephen Slaybaugh | published in Album Reviews | Leave A Comment »
If Wire had called it a day after releasing their first three seminal records (which they supposedly had at the time), it would have been enough to cement
Pere Ubu
The Long Goodbye
October 30th, 2019 | by Stephen Slaybaugh | published in Album Reviews | Leave A Comment »
It’s been 40-some years since Pere Ubu emerged from the ashes of Rocket from the Tombs, so one could be forgiven for thinking that the seminal
Baby Shakes
Cause a Scene
September 24th, 2019 | by Richard Sanford | published in Album Reviews | Leave A Comment »
Baby Shakes bring renewed vigor and focus to their spiked-sugar attack with their fourth album, Cause a Scene. The title track’s burst of aggression belies ease
Jenny Hval
The Practice of Love
September 16th, 2019 | by Richard Sanford | published in Album Reviews | Leave A Comment »
Jenny Hval trades the signifiers of expansiveness and rawness of her earlier work for an investigation into deceptively smoother surfaces on her seventh