Music Reviews

Peter Gabriel Scratch My Back

It's no "Shock The Monkey".   It's not even "In Your Eyes". 

The Besnard Lakes The Besnard Lakes Are the Roaring Night

The Montreal sextet's epic new album ups the ante by expanding their psychedelic tendencies to a  grand scale.

Ted Leo and the Pharmacists Brutalist Bricks

Ted Leo's latest full length is a sloppy and uneven disappointment.

Toro Y Moi Causers Of This

Toro Y Moi releases his debut full-length amid two peaks, the popular reign and critical boredom of still-infant subgenre chillwave.  Or was that glo-fi?  And what about shit-gaze?  Seriously, I read an album-review classified as shit-gaze yesterday...  Anyway, well after Causers Of This is finished and released, Toro Y Moi has his work cut out for him.

Freelance Whales Weathervanes

Weathervanes is too lacking in substance to make it more than an occasional indulgence (like a fried Twinkie) or a novelty album for snugglin'.

Julianna Barwick Florine

Strikingly innovative, intensely private, surreally beautiful.

White Hinterland Kairos

After crafting a jazz aesthetic with their debut, the Portland duo switch to a synthesized template, an almost-unrecognizable reinvention that inverts the meaning of a sophomore slump.

Thee Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra Kollaps Tradixionales

Despairing, bleak, hopeless and defiant.  Yay!

Lil Wayne Rebirth

Zu The Way of the Animal Powers (Reissue)

Out-of-print for five years, Zu’s The Way of the Animal Powers is being reintroduced to obscurity.