Album Reviews

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  Casper Skulls Find Beauty in Childhood Trauma on 'Knows No Kindness'

  PUBLISHED Nov 12, 2021

  Knows No Kindness finds Casper Skulls a long way from the shoegazing rock of previous material, from 2015's "King of Gold" single to 2017 d...

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  'Crawler' Is the Sound of IDLES Running on Empty

  PUBLISHED Nov 12, 2021

  Well, they've done it. Against all odds, IDLES have become… boring. What an unlikely feat! For a group of rowdy British punks who rose to p...

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  Damon Albarn Blurs Past and Present on 'The Nearer the Fountain, More Pure the Stream Flows'

  PUBLISHED Nov 11, 2021

  What's Damon Albarn to do with a pandemic? Blur hasn't performed since a one-off gig for one of Albarn's Africa Express events in London in...

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  Summer Walker Goes Beyond the Breakup Record on 'Still Over It'

  PUBLISHED Nov 11, 2021

  Still Over It, Summer Walker's follow-up to 2019 breakthrough Over It, clearly lays out its subject matter in no subtle terms with song tit...

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  Jon Hopkins' 'Music for Psychedelic Therapy' Is a Trip

  PUBLISHED Nov 10, 2021

  The Tayos Caves of Ecuador are steeped in myth and history. Its landscape draws many seeking a special connection to its unique, natural wo...

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  Technical Kidman's Mathieu Arsenault Soundtracks Self-Discovery on Seulement's 'EX PO'

  PUBLISHED Nov 10, 2021

  EX PO, the debut album from Seulement (a.k.a. Mathieu Arsenault of Montreal's Technical Kidman), is an electronic collection of songs that...

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  Something Is Missing, Is Missing from Courtney Barnett's 'Things Take Time, Take Time'

  PUBLISHED Nov 9, 2021

  Courtney Barnett's best songs twist fleeting moments into profound observations — like the way she turned a real estate hunt into a heart-w...

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  Radiohead's 'KID A MNESIA' Still Feels Terrifyingly Relevant

  PUBLISHED Nov 4, 2021

  In hindsight, Y2K paranoia seems absurd — but at the time, it really did feel like the turn of the millennium could reset the world's compu...