Six months into 2022, this year has already given us several memorable albums in every genre, from reggaeton to dream pop to hip hop to post-punk. In fact, there were enough great albums that we couldn’t quite leave this list…
‘Dragon New Warm Mountain I Believe in You’ review: Big Thief maintain their consistency on latest album
Big Thief are the kind of band who inspire grandiose natural-world metaphors in reviews of their music. Let me add one more to the pantheon: listening to their latest, a loosely structured yet tightly wound double album, reminded me of…
The 10 best new songs of January : The Weekend, FKA Twigs, and more
January has already come and gone and while, for the most part, it was a slog to get through (at least for the East Coasters in the US facing down gray skies and blizzards) there were, at the very least,…
Album Review: Big Thief – “Two Hands”
Perhaps the most heroic feat of this album is that it’s the second universally acclaimed album from Big Thief this year. That might not have been much of a feat in the 60s, when Dylan, Stones and the Beatles released several outstanding…
The Young Folks’ Top 50 Albums of 2017
For the second year in a row, The Young Folks music staff has compiled a list of our Top 50 favorite albums of the year. For the 2017 installment we have expanded the list to include all 16 active music…
Album Review: Big Thief – “Capacity”
Adrianne Lenker appears to have been predestined to become one of indie rock’s most naturalistic songwriters, bearing her soul on the track in a manner that genuinely feels as though it is devoid of effort or pretense. She can’t help…