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Want an exciting and raw indie punk-rock album to add to your collection? Get in line for Sleater-Kinney’s No Cities to Love. Don’t want the new Sleater-Kinney album? Fuck you.

“Storytone” comes in two formats: a full orchestral album and its acoustic demos. These two versions band-aid each other’s weak points to make this one of Young’s best albums since 2005’s “Prairie Wind.”

Perhaps this is the definition of a modern pop record: sonically intriguing, clad in fashionable cloaks and curly locks, and melodically unwilling to move beyond the notion of a (mumbled) top-line hook.

Caribou Our Love MERGE 8/10 A review of Caribou‘s Our Love will be dominated by the sheer brilliance of its opening…

Lost in Alphaville is a tragic case of what could have been, which is disappointing considering the fifteen-year wait for the album. Matt Sharp’s lyrical whimsy and exploding synths are still here, but he chooses bombast over beauty.

For her third album, singer-songwriter Sarah Jaffe has decided to push her songwriting envelope. Instead of acoustic thrumming, a smorgasbord of instrumentation has been assembled by Midlake’s McKenzie Smith.

They Want My Soul is a hit straight back to 2007’s Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga or even 2005’s Gimme Fiction, but with even more depth

Gamel is underpinned throughout by the clinking sound of the gamelan. As you’d expect with something so specific, the album has its moments, and its flaws.