Think back to your high school cafeteria. Picture the far corner where, behind a tray of Mashed Potatoes and Beige, one student always sat wearing outsized headphones and a look of practiced indifference. Perhaps, like me, you always wondered what music allowed them to transcend grim reality and reach such a serene mind-state. In hindsight, […]
In light of Belle and Sebastian’s newest project, a trilogy of EPs titled How to Solve Our Human Problems, it might be well worth the time to revisit their last full-length album, Girls in Peacetime Want to Dance. Idiosyncratic and whimsical in an unusual blend of rhythmic playfulness and lyrical depth, Girls in Peacetime Want […]
On November 10, Sleigh Bells duo Alexis Krauss and Derek Miller released the new seven-track album, Kid Kruschev. This 21-minute-long album comes a year after the 2016 release of Jessica Rabbit, and features a refreshed take on Sleigh Bells’ signature noise pop sound. The first track of the album, “Blue Trash Mattress Fire,” has already […]
An interesting artifact: an album that sounds like it was written 50 years ago.. that’s only a year old. This is an exquisite pick-me-up album. When I first heard this album all the way through I was having a pretty terrible day: it was rainy, I was sick, and was totally swamped with work. […]
Silky, enchanting vocals laid over a curiously complex aggregation of instrumental melodies. Overall this is a very reflective album, though there are a couple of breakaway songs that don’t place perfectly into the mood. It’s littered with longing choruses like: ‘Where did I go wrong?’, ‘You don’t know this guy’, and ‘I’ll try for […]
What I would listen to if I were somehow sunbathing at 2 or 3 AM. It would be dark out, but somehow still pleasantly warm — as if it were a nice, sunny day. This album gives me a uniquely eerie feeling that I’ve never really been able to find anywhere else. Many of […]
If you’re not careful (really, even if you are careful) this album will make you lose faith in your sense of reality …but in a sort of good way. Jerry Paper, who describes himself as an ‘11th dimension musical entity’ who occasionally occupies the body of Lucas Nathan, is absolutely obsessed with the simulations […]
An album so smooth that, if I was forced to choose when bedtime rolled around, I’d pick it over a soft blanky every time. This album is somehow very spacey and very tight all at once. While listening to a few of the tracks I found myself feeling like somebody was shooting lasers directly […]
Masseduction is Annie Clark (aka St. Vincent)’s fifth studio album and follow up to her 2014 critically acclaimed self-titled album. The album opener, “Hang on Me,” includes a repeating call to another to “hang on me/ ‘Cause you and me/ We’re not meant for this world.” It’s an interesting introduction to ideas Clark addresses later […]
A down-tempo, synth driven LP takes you back to a time you’ve never lived through. This LP is a soulful mix between vaporwave and 80’s synthpop. At times it’s wistful and a bit moody, but one of the best things about it is that it doesn’t take itself too seriously. It’s like Sports constructed […]
