Category: Album

Stephen Braude asks for “steaming sensuality, and a rose between your teeth” in his description…

When a pitch email starts with the words ” indie‑folk ” I usually get ready…

MOMARZ returns with his album, THE NEW MAINSTREAM a fourteen-track record arriving on December 4…

Val’s second album, embers, gives the Chilean singer-songwriter ten songs to answer a difficult question:…

Indonesian-born, Singapore-based vocalist Reggie Pryor returns with his second full-length project six years after Love…

An EP called Rush Hour at The Servo begins with a joke about scale, reducing…

By the time the guitars have fully taken over Collaborate, the album has already established…

Grant Maloy Smith walks into Wild West: American Stories with eighteen songs, a hardcover companion…

On her third poetry album, Fella Cederbaum gives extraterrestrials the best seat in the house…

The title Peace I Can’t Wake To makes a disturbing bargain before the album begins:…

Three songs into Ars Erotica: Volume I, I had heard sin, saints, leather, pearls, group…

Amsterdam-based collective Mèraque grew from the shared fascination of percussionist and sound artist Jorick Bronius…

Acacia Grace, an independent singer-songwriter working across neo-soul, R&B and jazz, spends her second album…

Three minutes into First Flight, I had already moved through curiosity, irritation, laughter and surrender.…

Beginning before language and ending inside a defined rhythm section, inWaves turns six tracks into…

I kept returning to the title because then and after occupy adjacent positions in time…

A concept album about searching for a planet more liveable than Earth should logically produce…

A second person occupies nearly every corner of We’re A Long, Long Way From Home.…

Nayan turned fifty, took the milestone into Magpie Cage, and came out with an EP…

By album eleven, I expect either immaculate self-knowledge or a spectacularly stubborn set of habits.…

Eight years into playing together, East of West have reached the stage where three instruments…

Rupit enters public view carrying an entire mythology, with Bernardo van Bemmelen presenting music, fiction,…

Cover albums usually arrive with a built-in argument about memory, loyalty and how much renovation…

Jaden Sade has spent enough time inside his own head to know the furniture, and…

Venerate gave Riven by Ravens fourteen songs to carry across the West Coast, and the…

Six songs is not a lot of real estate to cover new love, self-preservation, getting…

Four people left Bozeman with ten songs and drove through the night toward Washington. By…

The phrase “emerging artist” carries an invisible date stamp. By the time a songwriter reaches…

Fingers Entwined made me think about good taste, a slightly dangerous compliment in a record…

Putting Tangerine Dream on the sleeve of your thirty-fourth album takes nerve. It also creates…

Eight years is a long time to be away from music when music is what…

Band names are a commitment you make before you know what you’re committing to. Deep…

Paulo Coelho’s The Alchemist is one of those books that divides a room cleanly in…

You could file The Dangerous Unc under hip-hop and be technically correct, but you’d be…

photo on the cover by David Zayas Jr Naming a harp album Rotten Fruit is…

Shu Lee‘s third solo album arrives with the kind of ambition that makes a critic…

Albums born from real suffering have a reliable instinct: open with the suffering. They front-load…

I should admit something up front: I’ve been listening to Raíz y Recuerdo in a…

Twenty-seven syllables and a comma. That is how much space the title of Longfield &…

The term “sophomore slump” has a specific history. It was coined by American journalists to…

I’ve long noticed a habit of mine: when I genuinely like an album, I put…

Blues has always been honest music. It was born on porches, in smoke-filled clubs, among…

Trip-hop has always possessed a strange quality — it aged beautifully. Massive Attack records from…

Howard Louis from Philadelphia took everything he knows how to do — rock, alternative, pop,…

The Nth Power have a habit that says a lot about this band: they release…

Songwriter Paul Kahn has released Willingness, a six-track country EP recorded with Grammy® winner Catherine…

Jada Di’Larosa turned a vanity table into a stage and a sleepless night into a…

An eighth album is a strange point in a career. The first is a debut.…

Freidrich$ and Azalias joined forces under a shared banner — and the result buries club…