Year: 2015
Review: Jon DeRosa – Black Halo
Jon DeRosa Black Halo Rocket Girl Street: 05.25 Jon DeRosa = Jens Lekman + The Magnetic Fields + Beat Happening When I listened through this record a time or two, generally enjoying the 1950s pop of Buddy Holly and Roy Orbison filtered through the skewed lens of Stephin Merritt’s fey, minor-chord subversiveness, I had to
Review: Jenny Hval – Apocalypse, girl
Jenny Hval Apocalypse, girl Sacred Bones Street: 06.09 Jenny Hval = Laurie Anderson + Kate Bush + FKA Twigs Apocalypse, girl is intimate, redolent of how an experimental documentary art film might translate to sound. Jenny Hval pervades her reality with musings about her state of being in the world—how she wants to live and
Review: King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard
King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard = Thee Oh Sees / The Murlocs … read more
Review: Kendrick Lamar – To Pimp a Butterfly
Kendrick Lamar To Pimp a Butterfly Top Dawg Entertainment Street: 03.15 Kendrick Lamar = The past 100 years of black American music x Compton At this point, Butterfly is old news. Still, it’s worth mentioning that it’s one of the most important pop records ever made. Few albums are this salient in their time, this
Review: Kitty Empire – Superliminal Audio Wreck
Kitty Empire = Revolting Cocks + Pierrepoint + G.G. Allin … read more
Review: Kathryn Calder – Self-Titled
Kathryn Calder = The New Pornographers + Maria Taylor + The Shins … read more
Review: Jessica Lee Wilkes – Lone Wolf
Jessica Lee Wilkes = Jessica Hernandez and the Deltas + The Detroit Cobras … read more
Review: Jonny Manak & the Depressives – Cold Pizza &...
Jonny Manak & the Depressives = The Cramps + The Sonics + Dead Boys … read more
Review: KMFDM – Salvation
KMFDM= Ego Likeness + Chant + MDFMK … read more
Review: Jóhann Jóhannsson – Sicario
Jóhann Jóhannsson = Carter Burwell + Hans Zimmer + Swans … read more
Review: Joanna Newsom – Divers
Joanna Newsom = Dirty Projectors + Björk + Kate Bush … read more
Review: John Wesley Coleman III – Greatest Hits
John Wesley Coleman III = Chad VanGaalen + Scott Walker
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