Cover Me: Emily Haines reminisces on the stories behind her band’s album covers, including the frantic process for Fantasies, the unnoticed references in Formentera, and the callback to their origins on Romanticize the Dive.
On her third album, the Missouri pop singer emerges fully-formed: distinguished and disgusting. It’s a massive level-up from her previous work, which failed to set itself apart from other head-empty, hyperpop-adjacent tunes of its time.
Time Capsule: Rage Against the Machine’s second album was meaner, sleeker, more focused. The volatile songs, fronted by “Bulls on Parade,” urged listeners to throw a molotov at the powers that be.