album reviews
Mudhoney, Cruising on a Half-Pipe
Digital Garbage makes Cassie Ramone feel like a teenage boy at a skatepark in the '80s.
Driving Through the Sonoran Desert Listening to Low
Joey Burns (Calexico) on the transformative experience of Double Negative.
Pet Fox Makes Sinister Pop
"Like their namesake, the band is more at home in the night, skulking around in the wash of your headlights, half daring you to run it over."
Kazuashita Emerges From the Fog of Political Fatigue
Eartheater (aka Alex Drewchin) extols the virtues of Gang Gang Dance's non-escapist, non-pacifying new record.
Oh Sees Plough Onward Through Changes and Choices Infinite
Andy Falkous dissects the evolutions, both of genre and band name, on Smote Reverser.
Thank You For Today is a Peaceful Concession to Transience
Julien Baker reflects on Death Cab for Cutie's latest record and the inevitability of change.
On Youth and Growth in The Bluest Star
How sweet it would be if we acknowledged our friendships in music as much as we did our romances.
Garage Rock Is Dead
Or, at least, the new Ty Segall/White Fence collab makes Ali Koehler wish it were.
On John Coltrane, a Brilliant Asker of Questions
"John Coltrane's work was love in all of its messy and complicated and Godly glory."
The Ecstasies and Sorrows of Half Waif
Nandi Rose Plunkett's latest album explores the catch-22 of being human.
On the Endlessness of Deafheaven
"If the song is longer than four minutes and 20 seconds, you’re pushing it, buddy."
