The Walkmen frontman trades in his booming vocal style from the past and adapts to more of a '50s and '60s croon, tackling both joyous pop tunes and the slow sway.
Peter Matthew Bauer // Liberation!
by Alex Bieler7/9/2014, 9:20 AM
The Philadelphia-based musician takes listeners on a spiritual journey on his debut.
How to Dress Well // What is This Heart?
by Alex Bieler7/9/2014, 9:10 AM
For his third album under the moniker How to Dress Well, Tom Krell showcases his R&B-tinged pop sound in various states of undress.
Say Anything // Hebrews
by Jess Scutella7/9/2014, 9:00 AM
Max Bemis is back with a reinvented Say Anything – still vibrant but more mature, electronic, and reflective than ever before.
The Last Hombres // Odd Fellows Rest
by Cory Vaillancourt6/23/2014, 12:06 PM
It's been almost a decade since influential roots rockers The Last Hombres produced anything of note; but their latest release, shows that this band's been doing everything but resting.
F---ed Up // Glass Boys
by Alex Bieler6/23/2014, 12:03 PM
Glass Boys has plenty to like, notably the ringing walls of guitar on opener "Echo Boomer" the fuzzy outro of "Warm Change," and Abraham's ferocious growls on "Led By Hand."
The Antlers // Familiars
by Alex Bieler6/23/2014, 12:00 PM
Latest Antlers' album Familiars extrapolates on the dreamlike haze of their 2012 EP Undersea, a set of nine slowly evolving atmospheric tracks.
Strand of Oaks // HEAL
by Alex Bieler6/23/2014, 11:59 AM
The Philadelphia storyteller turns the camera on himself on the unflinching HEAL.
Jack White // Lazaretto
by Ben Speggen6/16/2014, 9:09 AM
If 2012's Blunderbuss offered us insight to the post-divorce tormented, jaded lover, Lazaretto seems – lyrically – chiefly concerned with isolation, identity, and vision.
onewayness + dRachEmUsiK // immeasurable
by Cory Vaillancourt6/16/2014, 9:07 AM
Dreamy but not dreary, sparse but not slight, and intense but not overwhelming, "immeasurable" is a deeply textured sonic landscape.
Owen Pallett // In Conflict
by Alex Bieler6/16/2014, 9:06 AM
The album may abandon many of the fantastical elements of past albums, eschewing sci-fi and adventurous themes for personal first-person takes, but the results are surely fantastic.
Parquet Courts // Sunbathing Animal
by Alex Bieler6/16/2014, 9:04 AM
An album that finds the Brooklyn band more focused than before, but without sacrificing the ramshackle feel that drew in listeners from before.
The Reissuing of Lavender Country, the first openly gay country album
by Dan Schank6/11/2014, 6:24 AM
An Interview with Patrick Haggerty
The Black Keys // Turn Blue
by Ben Speggen5/28/2014, 6:47 AM
Turn Blue goes full-measure, taking the band into its most experimental places yet.
Wye Oak // Shriek
by Alex Bieler5/28/2014, 5:50 AM
Shriek feels more like a screech than it does a warm, dreamy coo over the course of ten tracks.
