The Thermals: Desperate Ground
For just over a decade The Thermals have stuck to their scrappy, good-timin’ punk formula. read more
Jessie Ware: Devotion
Eight months after the release of her debut LP in her native UK, Jessie Ware is finally getting a proper physical release in America for Devotion with four bonus tracks added to the original recording and one track altered due to legal complications. read more
Yeah Yeah Yeahs: Mosquito
People who can’t understand why “Mosquito” is the title track of Yeah Yeah Yeahs’ fourth album are thinking too big. read more
The Flaming Lips: The Terror
Some would argue that we all have a dark side. read more
Jonny Fritz: Dad Country
Country music loves a smartass. read more
James Blake: Overgrown
For his sake—and for ours—it's time to reassess James Blake. read more
The Knife: Shaking the Habitual
As befits a duo that dreams up an opera based on Charles Darwin’s On the Origin of the Species, The Knife is one of the smartest bands working. read more
Jake Bugg: Jake Bugg
The “new Dylan” designation is as trodden and well-known now as the “wunderkind” label thrown at any tuneful musician under the age of 20. read more
Dawes: Stories Don't End
With Stories Don't End, their third studio album, Dawes aimed to break free from their pigeonholed place in popular music. read more
Pyyramids: Brightest Darkest Day
As the story goes: OK Go bassist Tim Nordwind and He Say, She Say vocalist Drea Smith initially bonded via email over British post-punk bands from the '80s. read more
Kurt Vile: Wakin On A Pretty Daze
In most photos, he hides his face behind his hair. Long, dark, nappy in the summer months—Kurt Vile’s wavy strands fall like drapes over the edge of his microphone. read more
Lil Wayne: I Am Not A Human Being II
Soul-purging has never been Lil Wayne’s modus operandi, but his bravest, most mortal song was the Katrina-era “Georgia…Bush,” a righteous anti-Dubya screed where Wayne stewed over the shamefully preventable deformation of his native Nawlins. read more
Port St. Willow: Holiday
This all starts a ways back. A year ago, Port St. Willow self-released their debut LP, Holiday, with the album slipping by largely unnoticed. read more
Generationals: Heza
A couple years back, if you were lucky enough to have Generationals' “Ten-Twenty-Ten” find its way into your path, you found a lifetime member for your "hangout mix" whose handclaps, up-tempo elasticity and '60s guitar tones played like a paradigm of likable music. read more
Ólafur Arnalds: For Now I Am Winter
Since his emergence as a solo composer and producer in the mid-'00s, Icelander Olafur Arnalds has been categorized more for his nationality than his actual music—inextricably linked to the expansive, glacial imagery of his homeland. read more
The Besnard Lakes: Until in Excess, Imperceptible UFO
The Besnard Lakes find a musical intensity in contrast, playing songs that are both icy and fiery, ethereal and bombastic, pensive and explosive. read more
Depeche Mode: Delta Machine
In 2013, 33 years into their career, Depeche Mode’s chosen medium of electronic music is still generally what people think of as futuristic. read more
Milk Music: Cruise Your Illusion
The members of Milk Music are old souls. read more
Cold War Kids: Dear Miss Lonelyhearts
“Honestly, this is the first album where I do have expectations and I would be surprised and disappointed if the record didn’t do well and open doors for us. Being able to tour in Asia, play bigger venues, or record a song with someone like Elvis Costello, is the sort of thing I expect with this album.” read more
Telekinesis: Dormarion
Some artists are criticized for releasing the same album over and over, while others are condemned for not delivering seconds and "turning their back" on the sound that brought their fans to the table read more
