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X ‘Smoke & Fiction’ Review: A Too-Complacent Final Testament
Even in their earliest days in Los Angeles’s punk scene, X had one eye on rock music’s past. Guitarist Billy Zoom’s twisted riffs made nods to Chuck Berry, while Doors keyboardist Ray Manzarek produced...
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Uniform ‘American Standard’ Review: An Oppressive, Intensely Personal Ritual
For Uniform, heavy music is a means to confront the most difficult experiences in life. A case in point is the 21-minute title track of the noise-rock band’s fifth studio album, American Standard, on...
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Alan Sparhawk ‘White Rose, My God’ Review: A Playful but Palpable Expression...
Alan Sparhawk’s White Roses, My God resists easy interpretation. That’s due, in no small part, to the fact that the former Low singer-guitarist filters every note that he sings through Auto-Tune,...
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Geordie Greep ‘The New Sound’ Review: Former Black Midi Frontman Takes on...
Former Black Midi singer-guitarist Geordie Greep takes stock of contemporary masculinity with his first solo album, The New Sound. Where Black Midi constructed elaborate worlds to tell stories about...
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Mount Eerie ‘Night Palace’ Review: Bucolic Indie Rock That’s as Fickle as...
Mount Eerie’s 2017 album A Crow Looked at Me and its follow-up, 2018’s Now Only, were largely acoustic efforts filled with intensely pained songs written in the aftermath of the death of songwriter and...
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Lauren Mayberry ‘Vicious Creature’ Review: An Album That Falls Short of Its...
Over the last decade, Chvrches singer Lauren Mayberry’s lyrics have grown increasingly concerned with the challenges of being a woman in a male-dominated industry. The duo’s 2021 album Screen Violence...
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The Weather Station ‘Humanhood’ Review: The Calm Before the Storm
The Weather Station’s seventh studio album, Humanhood, is prickly and less accessible than the Canadian band’s previous work, reflecting their determination to innovate. The group’s folk leanings still...
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Review: Sharon Van Etten, ‘Sharon Van Etten & the Attachment Theory’
Sharon Van Etten, who’s studying psychology with the hopes of one day becoming a therapist, lifted the name for her new band, Sharon Van Etton & the Attachment Theory, from a theory devised by...
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