SUPERBLOOM is the most recent MisterWives album, and it packs just as hard a punch as anything they’ve ever made before, leaning on their classic sonic landscape and some new emotional territory. At their worst, though, the band leans too…
Album Review: Norah Jones’s latest album is most powerful in its sonic palette
Norah Jones has been releasing albums pretty consistently since 2002, but besides the rollicking Little Broken Hearts in 2012, her overwhelming early work on Feels Like Home and Come Away With Me still hits the hardest. I hadn’t sat down…
Album Review: “Sideways to New Italy” is another mouthful from the rollicking Rolling Blackouts C.F.
Australian outfit Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever is back with their latest four-word album event: Sideways to New Italy. The quartet features three singer-songwriter-guitarists, and their latest is work full of eventful melodies and twisty lyrics, reminiscent in various parts of…
Carly Rae Jepsen: Nothing but smiles on”Dedicated Side B”
Carly Rae Jepsen is modern buttercup Pat Benatar. She caught the attention of the world with “Call Me Maybe” in 2011—a hit at every single bar/bat mitzvah and birthday party that year—but has emerged as much more than just a…
Phoebe Bridgers: three singles, two-and-a-half videos, and a contest in anticipation of “Punisher”
After the rocketing success of 2018’s Stranger in the Alps, two glorious collaborations in the form of Boygenius and Better Oblivion Community Center, and a canceled tour (moved online) with The 1975, Phoebe Bridgers is set to release her new…
Album Review: The Mountain Goats’ latest is called “Songs for Pierre Chuvin,” but it’s made for us.
Songs for Pierre Chuvin is The Mountain Goats’ latest album, recorded entirely on a Panasonic boombox, all since the pandemic. It’s based on “A Chronicle of the Last Pagans” by Pierre Chuvin, a French historian. Listening to this album, especially…
Album Review: Beach Bunny earns their earnestness on “Honeymoon”
My first introduction to Beach Bunny was on the app TikTok. Frontwoman Lili Trifilio whines her insecurities while the users of the app act out the lyrics, sappily: “Wish I was like you / blue eyed blondie, perfect body… if…
