Album Reviews

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  Night Lunch Are Running Through the Dark on 'Fire in the Rose Garden'

  PUBLISHED Oct 17, 2023

  On Fire in the Rose Garden, Montreal's Night Lunch make their weird little home beneath layers of post-disco punk haze, R&B, obscure sugar...

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  Squirrel Flower Taps into the Minutiae of Apocalypse on 'Tomorrow's Fire'

  PUBLISHED Oct 13, 2023

  Music about climate disaster usually feels somewhat dogmatic and thematically grandiose. But on Tomorrow's Fire, Ella Williams of Squirrel...

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  Fern Sully Have Infinite Potential on Their 'Better Luck Next Time' EP

  PUBLISHED Oct 13, 2023

  While online information about Fern Sully is scant, this much we can glean: the band — whose earliest music materialized online in March 20...

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  The Drums' 'Jonny' Is Haunting and Hopeful

  PUBLISHED Oct 13, 2023

  A decade ago, Jonathan Pierce returned to his childhood home in Horseheads, NY, to reckon with his past. While his parents were away at ser...

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  Holly Humberstone Lets the Light in on 'Paint My Bedroom Black'

  PUBLISHED Oct 12, 2023

  The Japanese art of Kintsugi is about repair without concealment. Fusing broken pottery back together with gold-dusted lacquer, it repairs...

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  Land of Talk Scale New Heights on 'Performances'

  PUBLISHED Oct 12, 2023

  It's a common occurrence for artists to describe their latest album as the best work they've ever made. But Lizzie Powell may be one of the...

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  Helena Deland Attempts to Say What Cannot be Said on the Lovely 'Goodnight Summerland'

  PUBLISHED Oct 11, 2023

  Helena Deland sings about connectivity — to intimate partners, passing images and the world at large — from the vantage point of someone un...

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  Faith Healer's 'The Hand That Fits the Glove' Reshapes Pop Conventions

  PUBLISHED Oct 11, 2023

  "I'm so tired of playing the game," deadpans singer Jessica Jalbert on The Hand That Fits the Glove opener "The Game," her voice droning on...