“You watch the cops choke out a man like me… ‘til my voice goes from a shriek to a whisper, ‘I can’t breathe’” goes Killer Mike on “Walking in the Snow”, a song recorded months ago, and which now sounds…
Album Review: Jason Isbell & the 400 Unit – “Reunions”
We’re lucky to have a songwriter as warm and talented as Jason Isbell to share with us his journey, a not uncommon one, of troubled young drifter and alcoholic to (relatively) contented family man, as anyone who’s followed the progress…
Album Review: Waxahatchee’s “Saint Cloud” is a folk-rock triumph
How fitting that Katie Crutchfield would release her best album in the midst of an unprecedented (in our lifetimes at least) global storm, given that her last album was called, well, Out in the Storm. Of course, Crutchfield conceived and recorded Saint…
Album Review: Body Count disappoint on “Carnivore”
Ice-T’s rap-metal outfit is most famous for 1992’s “Cop Killer”, from their debut album, which caused outrage at the time and had to be removed following heated criticism from many prominent figures including President George H. W. Bush. Nearly 30…
Album review: Grimes’ “Miss Anthropocene” is a disappointment compared to earlier works
The first big disappointment of the year. Grimes has gone from strength to strength and got better with every album, but it couldn’t have lasted forever. Could it? It’s a little saddening to have followed her progress from the dense,…
Album Review: Green Day – “Father of All…”
Re-listening to Green Day’s oeuvre recently left me with the same sinking feeling that I’ve had re-listening to Muse and The Killers, a feeling that the bands which seemed so brilliant in my adolescence might not be all that. Green…
Album Review: Drive-By Truckers – “The Unraveling”
Possibly the greatest band whom Pitchfork consider it beneath them to review, Drive-By Truckers aren’t just an American Band (the name of their wonderful last album), they’re a great American Band. And they constantly question what it is to be American, what it…
