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Hurray for the Riff Raff, Life on Earth

Alynda Segarra expands in seemingly every direction at once on Life on Earth, working in the new while retaining the old.

February 18, 2022
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Big Thief, Dragon New Warm Mountain I Believe in You

The ambitious folk-rock group achieves a fully-assured sound at an epic scale by letting Adrianne Lenker’s songwriting talent flow unrestrained.

February 15, 2022

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In Conversation
Cate Le Bon on Chasing Curiosity and Spontaneity on Pompeii

The Welsh songwriter details the process of putting together her sixth album, which arrives this week.

January 31, 2022
Reviews
Songs: Ohia, “Songs: Ohia” [25th Anniversary Edition]

This is Jason Molina at his most uncut and unadorned, less an album than a found-audio recording.

November 18, 2021
In Conversation
In Conversation: Courtney Barnett on the Quiet Contentment of “Things Take Time, Take Time”

The Australian songwriter discusses covering new ground while remaining entirely singular on her third solo album.

November 10, 2021
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Hovvdy, “True Love”

Their latest LP finds the duo peeling back the layers of their previous work until they arrive at the essential center.

October 13, 2021
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Ada Lea, “one hand on the steering wheel the other sewing a garden”

Lea gives each song its own sonic identity, taking what could become monotony and creating anything but.

October 06, 2021
In Conversation
In Conversation: illuminati hotties’ Sarah Tudzin Climbs to Her Peak on “Let Me Do One More”

The LA-based songwriter discusses brevity, tenderpunk, and her new label home.

September 29, 2021
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Grizzly Bear, “Yellow House” (15th Anniversary Reissue)

The 2006 LP gives us a snapshot of a band working through the kinks, establishing a framework for an impressive future catalogue.

September 21, 2021
In Conversation
In Conversation: José González on the Intentional Directness of “Local Valley”

The Swedish-Argentinean songwriter’s fourth album removes the veneer, contemplates the contradictions in our nature, and embraces all our messiest vestiges and claws.

September 14, 2021
In Conversation
In Conversation: Jelani Aryeh on His Cohesive, Guitar-Driven Vision for “I’ve Got Some Living to Do”

Aryeh discusses the overnight success of “Stella Brown,” how the track shaped his vision for the new album, and the ways in which he creates his own scene.

July 28, 2021
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Lightning Bug, “A Color of the Sky”

The dream pop group’s third album finds beauty in quiet and noise, the natural and the otherworldly, change and acceptance.

July 15, 2021
A Luscious Mix of Words and Tricks: The Shins’ “Oh, Inverted World” at 20

Revisiting one of the most unlikely hit records of the early 2000s.

June 22, 2021
On the Young Adult Sorrow and Undeniable Bops of Fountains of Wayne’s “Welcome Interstate Managers”

With 2003’s “Stacy’s Mom”–toting LP getting a Real Gone Music reissue, we revisit the power-pop group’s uncool and understated third release.

June 01, 2021
In Conversation
In Conversation: Current Joys’ Nick Rattigan Explores Memory, Place, and Time on “Voyager”

Rattigan discusses his most collaborative solo album yet, as well as the catharsis of defeating his own personal Pennywise the Clown.

May 12, 2021
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Dinosaur Jr., “Sweep It Into Space”

Their 12th record tries to reach a singular vision, but it’s hard not to hear the many voices attempting to roar as one.

April 28, 2021
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Esther Rose, “How Many Times”

“How Many Times” is pristine—you half expect the record to come with 3 fingers of bourbon and a cool summer breeze.

March 31, 2021
In Conversation
In Conversation: Tune-Yards Continue to Expand Their Perspective on “sketchy.”

Merrill Garbus on the uncomfortable conversations and creative choices that characterize the band’s fifth album.

March 23, 2021
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Cloud Nothings, “The Shadow I Remember”

The band’s 7th LP is a wily repurposing of former selves while, at the same, whittling away what no longer fits.

March 03, 2021
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Arlo Parks, “Collapsed in Sunbeams”

The London songwriter is able to achieve a collision of cool and gut-wrenching that is all her own. 

January 29, 2021
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