reviews

Kneecap Are Great Craic on "Sick in the Head"

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PUBLISHED Feb 21, 2024

Translate the Irish bars on "Sick in the Head" and you'll gain a greater view of this anthem of resilience in facing mental exhaustion...

Hurray for the Riff Raff Has Arrived on 'The Past Is Still Alive'

PUBLISHED Feb 21, 2024

'The Past Is Still Alive' might just be Hurray for the Riff Raff's best album yet...

Sleepytime Gorilla Museum Write the Story 'of the Last Human Being'

PUBLISHED Feb 21, 2024

The band's latest is full of absurdity, unorthodoxy and a revolutionary vision teetering between terror and triumph...

MGMT Put the LOL in 'Loss of Life'

PUBLISHED Feb 21, 2024

'Loss of Life' sees MGMT moving into an uncertain future and finding stability in indestructible love...

Denis Villeneuve Can 'Dune' No Wrong in Glorious 'Part Two'

Directed by Denis Villeneuve

PUBLISHED Feb 21, 2024

The success of 'Dune: Part One' in 2021 can be, at least in part, attributed to the fact that a sequel was, more likely than not, imminent...

'Seagrass' Embraces the Chaos of Family Dynamics

Directed by Meredith Hama-Brown

PUBLISHED Feb 21, 2024

Canadian director Meredith Hama-Brown contends with a lot in her feature film debut. The breakdown of a marriage, mixed-race relationship...

Erika de Casier Is Soft and Steely-Eyed on 'Still'

PUBLISHED Feb 20, 2024

'Still' brims with just as much character as Erika de Casier's last two projects, its very title plotting it alongside them in a continuum...

Chromeo Ease Into Midlife on 'Adult Contemporary'

PUBLISHED Feb 20, 2024

Chromeo are facing midlife head on with 'Adult Contemporary,' the funk duo’s sixth full-length and the follow-up to 2018’s 'Head Over Heels'...