music commentary
Carpe Diem, With Care
On How to Solve Our Human Problems, Pt. 3, Belle and Sebastian remind listeners that "everything is now."
Man of the Woods Is Misguided Red-State Kitsch
Justin Timberlake seems to have free-associated most of these songs while flipping through an L.L. Bean mailer.
How to Solve Our Human Problems, Part 2 Stretches the Meaning of “Love”
The band's second EP in a three-part series explores family, relationships to God, friendship, self-love, and, of course, romance.
Tune-Yards Is Addressing What It Is to Be a “Colonizer”
I can feel you creep into my private life grapples with the inherent racism of whiteness.
On Belle and Sebastian’s Solutions to Our Human Problems
The band has succeeded in providing insights that might make the world better, one listener at a time.
Porches’ The House Feels Like Home
Listen to it while you shower, dance to it in the mirror, melt into it while melting into your extra-large puffer jacket on the E train.
Songs of Experience Tells the Same Old U2 Stories
We don’t need any more broad, generalized ideas about how to make our declining world a better place.
Circuit des Yeux’s Magical, Spiritual Progress
Each song on Reaching for Indigo is its own little self-contained movie.
Rubba Band Business as Usual
Thoughts on the classic Juicy J flow—and sometimes tired politics—on the rapper's new record.
I Wanted to Believe in Morrissey (Or His Music, at Least)
With Low in High School, Moz commits sacrilege against himself.











