Music
Review: Florence + the Machine — Everybody Scream
Florence + the Machine’s Everybody Scream is full of breathless pleas, praying and preaching from the realms of reality and depths of imagination meld together. … read more
Review: LANY — Soft
This album is precious. Like the title track and opener say, it is soft. It’s delicate. It’s a little hard to listen to if you aren’t in the throes of romance. … read more
Review: The Last Dinner Party — From The Pyre
From The Pyre refreshingly deters from the concept of digestibility. It is not interested in telling you how to feel while listening; it simply allows you to feel it. … read more
Review: Melody’s Echo Chamber — Unclouded
Melody’s Echo Chamber is the musical project of French musician Melody Prochet. Her latest album Unclouded is a shock to the senses. … read more
Review: Thien Dragon — CHAOS GARDEN
With low-poly graphics, dreamy pinks and purples and video game references, Thien Dragon’s world is a fun, playful adventure that lets you release your stress. … read more
Review: Lily Allen — West End Girl
My heart truly belongs to the pop girlies of the early 2000s and among the most underrated is Lily Allen. Post-90s, there was a sudden wave of women musicians. … read more
Review: Portugal. The Man — SHISH
If any band can pivot with confidence, it is Portugal. The Man. SHISH plays as both a reckoning and a renewal. It is lean, loud and full of character. … read more
Review: Aesop Rock – I Heard It’s A Mess There Too
Aesop Rock said in a press release, “The phrase ‘I Heard It’s A Mess There Too’ started as a lyric, but it got its hooks in me soon after.” … read more
Review: Ashes and Diamonds — Are Forever
Ashes and Diamonds is the new project from Daniel Ash, Bruce Smith and bassist Paul Spencer Denman. Are Forever is a record defined by driving rhythms. … read more
Review: King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard – Phantom Island
Phantom Island really does take a “Wall Of Sound” approach to its recording that we haven’t seen from King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard in the past. … read more
Review: Taylor Swift — The Life of a Showgirl
The Life of a Showgirl suffers from a bad case of shock-factor-laced lyrics, an unwelcome surprise for a woman who has wielded the English language like a sword. … read more
Review: The Chameleons – Arctic Moon
Arctic Moon doesn’t sound exactly like a place The Chameleons has visited before. Those expecting an extension of Where Are You? might even be surprised by how different Arctic Moon feels. … read more
