Album Reviews
billy woods Inhabits a House of Horrors on 'GOLLIWOG'
PUBLISHED May 9, 2025
billy woods's outstanding 2023 album 'Maps' was a travelogue filled with food, weed and backstage shenanigans — a far-ranging tour around...
Men I Trust Gallop Through a Landscape of Impossible Beauty on 'Equus Caballus'
PUBLISHED May 8, 2025
It's easy to see why Men I Trust have been such a success in today's algorithm-driven music economy. Even without a label behind them...
Blondshell's 'If You Asked for a Picture' Is Exposure Therapy
PUBLISHED May 6, 2025
On her second record as Blondshell, L.A.-based musician Sabrina Teitelbaum serves up a melancholic reflection on pain, longing, and the...
PUP Bark Back at Millennial Malaise on 'Who Will Look After the Dogs?'
PUBLISHED Apr 30, 2025
Cohabitation is a tricky business, and that has never been better emphasized than through the self-deprecating, absorbing lens of PUP. The...
Model/Actriz 'Pirouette' into Ecstasy
PUBLISHED Apr 28, 2025
The year is 2025. You're at Studio 54. You've tried coming for weeks to no avail, but tonight, you're in. Crossing that red velvet rope is...
You Can't Escape Samia's 'Bloodless' Unscathed
PUBLISHED Apr 25, 2025
The cover of every Samia album so far has seen its auteur obscuring herself more and more from the camera lens. On 2020's 'The Baby,' she's...
SUMAC and Moor Mother Find Startling Cinematic Symmetry on 'The Film'
PUBLISHED Apr 22, 2025
Describing an album as "genreless" or "genre-defying" can be a temptation rooted in cowardice — the fear of identifying something as...
Julien Baker & TORRES Harness the Achy-Breaky Spirit of Country on 'Send a Prayer My Way'
PUBLISHED Apr 14, 2025
If you didn't know any better, you might assume TORRES (a.k.a. Mackenzie Scott) and Julien Baker's new album, 'Send a Prayer My Way,' was...
