Rock
Jake Bugg is hardly a punk, but he’s definitely acquired a bite that he didn’t have on his debut album.
At its best, “BE” is an adventurous album, which automatically makes it an improvement over Beady Eye’s 2011 debut.
Hopefully, Death Grips can keep finding new ways to convey contemporary dissonance, because as it stands now they have produced four of the most important musical works of the 21st Century.
Despite the band’s obvious affinity for alcohol, there’s nothing sloppy about OTP. They’re a tight unit.
A pithy critical consideration of new releases from Flaming Lips, The Frights, Mind Spiders, Radioactivity, Ólöf Arnalds, Lee Bannon, Armand Hammer, and Haunted Horses.
This is a movie that one Stone Roses fan made for other Stone Roses fans to enjoy. There’s nothing wrong with that though, and judged in this way, it’s a winner.
Lou Reed has left us, but the truths he took pains to show us about ourselves and our society – much as we try to cover them up – remain.
As those of you who have already heard “Reflektor” no doubt know, the album is fantastic, one of the best of the year for sure, whether the Grammys take notice or not.
Lightning Bolt, Pearl Jam’s tenth and latest studio album, takes the band’s newfound (or at least newly re-found) appreciation for radio-friendly mainstream rock and successfully stretches its parameters a bit.
With this LP, Daniel Lopatin has crafted an immaculate aural landscape that one can (and will want to) lose oneself in for hours.
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