Articles by Ian Gormely

LCD Soundsystem

Electric Lady Sessions

PUBLISHED Feb 8, 2019

A live-in-the-studio album in 2019 seems like just another drip from the firehose of live content the internet has to offer. Got a favourit...

Maggie Rogers' Overnight Success Took Years

PUBLISHED Jan 23, 2019

Though she's reticent to go into detail over the phone, there's enough in the lyrics of "Light On," a highlight from Maggie Rogers' major-l...

Taking Back Sunday

Twenty

PUBLISHED Jan 17, 2019

Taking Back Sunday were always a fan's band, a pivotal part of Long Island's turn-of-the-millennium punk scene who mostly confused critics....

Maggie Rogers

Heard It in a Past Life

PUBLISHED Jan 17, 2019

There's a brief moment in the middle of Maggie Rogers' full-length debut where she brings things to a screeching halt. Up until piano balla...

Troye Sivan, SOPHIE, Tirzah and Empress Of Represent the Future of Pop

Best of 2018

PUBLISHED Dec 17, 2018

While a whiff of nostalgia hung across the 2018 pop landscape, the past 12 months were nevertheless a banner year for forward-thinking pop...

The 1975 on Living on the Internet, New Album 'A Brief Inquiry Into Online Relationships,' and Why Another One's Coming Soon

PUBLISHED Nov 29, 2018

A lot of artists can thank the internet for their career, but few embrace it as wholeheartedly as a total aesthetic as the 1975. From lead...

The 1975

A Brief Inquiry Into Online Relationships

PUBLISHED Nov 28, 2018

Audacity is the 1975's bread and butter — no idea is too bold, no question too messy. So when word came that the English quartet were plann...

Microphones, Mount Eerie and Melancholy: The Career of Phil Elverum

PUBLISHED Nov 5, 2018

In another life, Phil Elverum could have had Conor Oberst's career. A wunderkind recording wiz who made beguiling DIY recordings in the lat...