Girl Scout’s confidence mirrors their range on Brink
The 13 fuzzy, guitar-driven songs on the Swedish band’s debut cover an impressive amount of sonic ground, channeling spiky post-punk, synth-pop, deadpan wit, and garage-rock scrappiness.
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Snail Mail is more confident than ever
After vocal surgery, a multi-year tour, rehab, and a move to North Carolina, Lindsey Jordan chased upscaled alt-rock ambitions, light reinvention, and big moral questions while making her third album, Ricochet.
Courtney Barnett sticks to what she knows on Creature of Habit
Musically and lyrically, the Aussie rocker’s fourth album is a treatise on why humans are such habitual creatures; she seldom strays from familiar ground but never to a fault.
Dagmar Zuniga remixes and rewires the carousel of time
Paste Pick: Re-released this month by AD 93, in filth your mystery is kingdom / far smile peasant in yellow music is a project with both clear roots in a loner folk lineage of decades past and a deadset mission to sidestep any sense of tradition in form or function.
Chance the Rapper wins $35 in lawsuit against former manager
The settlement comes after a five-year legal battle between the Chicago rapper and Pat Corcoran.