Album Reviews

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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...

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  Green Day Hit a Late-Career High on 'Saviors'

  PUBLISHED Jan 18, 2024

  What needs to be said about Green Day at this point? Billie Joe Armstrong, Mike Dirnt and Tré Cool are the multi-million-selling post-Nirva...

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  PACKS' 'Melt the Honey' Keeps Things Raw

  PUBLISHED Jan 16, 2024

  In March 2022, the same month that she released Crispy Crunchy Nothing, her sophomore LP as PACKS, Madeline Link and her band headed into t...

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  glass beach Go for Broke on 'plastic death'

  PUBLISHED Jan 16, 2024

  Emerging from the watery depths a half decade after their debut, glass beach's plastic death is a monolith of an album, narratively entwine...

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  Marika Hackman Tells Grown Up Stories on 'Big Sigh'

  PUBLISHED Jan 11, 2024

  It's always been a fool's errand to try and encapsulate Marika Hackman's music with a simple genre tag. One need only glance at the list of...

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  Full of Hell and Nothing Find Common Ground on 'When No Birds Sang'

  PUBLISHED Dec 13, 2023

  When we say that something is greater than the sum of its parts, it's assumed that the parts themselves are perfectly fine or capable on th...

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  'The Complete Budokan 1978' Captures Bob Dylan in Metamorphosis

  PUBLISHED Nov 16, 2023

  Recontextualizing one of Bob Dylan's most divisive live albums, The Complete Budokan 1978 proves that "less is more" isn't necessarily alwa...

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  Danny Brown Balances the Wild and the Wise on 'Quaranta'

  PUBLISHED Nov 15, 2023

  "This rap shit done saved my life / And fucked it up at the same time," Danny Brown states at the top of Quaranta, his ferociously sincere...