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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
Reviews
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
Reviews
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
Reviews
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
Reviews
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
Reviews
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
Reviews
Lande Hekt, “Going to Hell”

The Muncie Girls songwriter finds much more fertile ground in the internal on her solo debut.

January 21, 2021
Reviews
Shamir, “Shamir”

This self-titled LP is a record of hits, misses, and left-field bangers—but it’s Shamir’s and Shamir’s only. 

October 07, 2020
Reviews
Bully, “SUGAREGG”

Alicia Bognanno’s third LP benefits from a newfound willingness to let go.

September 09, 2020
Reviews
Fontaines D.C., “A Hero’s Death”

The band pick at every scab they’ve developed during their arduous last twelve months.

August 10, 2020
Reviews
Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit, “Reunions”

Isbell’s seventh album works best when it exists in the vagaries, where the lines of fact and fiction mix.

May 28, 2020
Reviews
Car Seat Headrest, “Making a Door Less Open”

“MaDLO” is full of holes, but wholly unique. 

May 08, 2020
Reviews
Hamilton Leithauser, “The Loves of Your Life”

“Loves” sees a veteran artist sauntering along his creative borders with glee.

April 13, 2020
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