Album Reviews

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  Mastodon's 'Hushed and Grim' Is the Grandest Realization of Their Artistry

  PUBLISHED Oct 27, 2021

  Four years ago, Emperor of Sand proved that a streamlined Mastodon doesn't result in a worse Mastodon. This might not be the same Atlanta s...

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  Charlotte Cornfield Embraces Sweet Emotion on 'Highs in the Minuses'

  PUBLISHED Oct 27, 2021

  The beautiful thing about Charlotte Cornfield's music is how she is able to make stories so personal to her, feel personal to you. On her f...

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  Archspire Attain Technical Death Metal Mastery on 'Bleed the Future'

  PUBLISHED Oct 26, 2021

  There's no arguing that when it comes to technical death metal, Canada knows what's up. Several of the genre's modern key players hail from...

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  Wine Lips' 'Mushroom Death Sex Bummer Party' Is a Trippy Garage Rock Clinic

  PUBLISHED Oct 26, 2021

  We all know that scene from Pulp Fiction when Uma Thurman's character Mia overdoses on drugs, and Vincent (John Travolta) stabs a needle of...

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  The War on Drugs Aim for Arena Grandeur on 'I Don't Live Here Anymore'

  PUBLISHED Oct 25, 2021

  The War on Drugs was always essentially a solo project — the product of songwriter Adam Granduciel holing up in a studio, playing most of t...

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  Wale Gives Himself His Flowers on 'Folarin II'

  PUBLISHED Oct 25, 2021

  Wale's greatest artistic gift has always been his ability to make hard work sound effortless. The DMV emcee has a natural knack for riding...

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  Lana Del Rey's 'Blue Banisters' Delivers Elizabeth Grant, Unfettered

  PUBLISHED Oct 22, 2021

  Everything Lana Del Rey does is cinematic and with careful intention; she's spent so much of her career crafting and redefining personas, c...

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  Grouper's Latest Brings Every 'Shade' of Liz Harris into Focus

  PUBLISHED Oct 21, 2021

  Over the past two decades, Liz Harris has embarked on a series of northward moves up the Pacific — Los Angeles, Portland and then further n...