Album Reviews

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  TORRES Is a Towering Presence on 'What an Enormous Room'

  PUBLISHED Jan 26, 2024

  I’ve started thinking about rooms, and what it means to have a room of one's own, differently since I moved to Toronto. The reasons for...

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  Ty Segall's 'Three Bells' Rings with Clarity

  PUBLISHED Jan 25, 2024

  Segall draws on his influences — psych rock, folk, heavy metal — and produces one of his most conceptual and narratively clarified records...

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  The Smile's 'Wall of Eyes' Feels Like a Comedown

  PUBLISHED Jan 24, 2024

  'Wall of Eyes' is an album of background music, a collection of songs that just weren’t good enough to be on its predecessor....

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  Knoll Make Themselves Heard on 'As Spoken'

  PUBLISHED Jan 23, 2024

  'As Spoken' should push Knoll out of the underground and into the pantheon of new grindcore greats...

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  Katy Kirby's 'Blue Raspberry' Savours the Artificial

  PUBLISHED Jan 23, 2024

  On 'Blue Raspberry,' Kirby marvels at the human desire to blend the lies and truths we embody every day into something delicious....

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  Future Islands Continue Toward Their Destination on 'People Who Aren't There Anymore'

  PUBLISHED Jan 22, 2024

  The band’s seventh album is an often excellent effort containing moments that see Future Islands really crystallize as its best self...

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  Hot Garbage Stake Their Claim with 'Precious Dream'

  PUBLISHED Jan 19, 2024

  For the past decade or so, there have been four bands heading the sooty psych rock battlements; the Black Angels, Osees, Frankie and the Wi...

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  Eliza McLamb Demythologizes Girlhood on 'Going Through It'

  PUBLISHED Jan 18, 2024

  Most people probably love illuminati hotties at their most wonky and unhinged, but I've always appreciated their ability to exercise restra...