reviews
fanclubwallet's Specifics Are Personal but the Vibes Are Relatable on 'Hurt Is Boring' EP
PUBLISHED May 12, 2021
Written during and about the pandemic (with the added stress of a 10-month recovery from an unrelated health flare-up), fanclubwallet's deb...
Sons of Kemet Contextualize the Past on 'Black to the Future'
PUBLISHED May 12, 2021
In many respects, jazz has acted as a vehicle in which musicians can draw from a vast well of historical and contextual memory, transformin...
Czarface Collab 'Super What?' Does MF DOOM's Legacy Justice
PUBLISHED May 11, 2021
When a person dies, loved ones are often told to remember how they lived. Think of the times they were vibrant and carefree and in his elem...
The Beaches Recall Classic Rock and Better Days on 'Future Lovers'
PUBLISHED May 11, 2021
The Beaches are back with their defiant pop-rock sound on the Future Lovers EP. Two years after the release of their last EP, The Professio...
Devours' 'Escape from Planet Devours' Is an Electropop Quest to Rebuild Confidence
PUBLISHED May 11, 2021
Escape from Planet Devours was born from a nervous breakdown. Jeff Cancade, a.k.a. Vancouver electropop gaylien Devours, spent the pandemic...
St. Vincent Makes the Most of Her Dive into '70s Shimmer on 'Daddy's Home'
PUBLISHED May 10, 2021
Annie Clark has become a modern guitar hero precisely for the fact that half the time, you'd hardly know she was playing guitar. From the b...
With 'Jupiter's Legacy,' the "Self-Aware Superhero" Genre Has Jumped the Shark
Created by Steven S. DeKnight
PUBLISHED May 10, 2021
Jupiter's Legacy is the latest misanthropic Mark Millar comic adaptation — he of Kick-Ass, Kingsman and Wanted fame. Like all of those prop...
TEKE::TEKE Showcase Many Possibilities of Their Kaleidoscopic Psych Rock on 'Shirushi'
PUBLISHED May 10, 2021
No one else is doing it quite like TEKE::TEKE. The Montreal-based psych septet became known internationally on the backs of their fearsome...