Metallic Life Review
Mining its deep archive of sampled metal objects—gongs, cheese graters, nitrous containers—the experimental duo’s reflective new con...
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Mic City Sons (30th Anniversary)
Third Man’s new reissue commemorates the Portland band’s 1996 album as more than just a breakthrough moment for its young prodigy, E...
Michelangelo Dying
The Welsh musician composed her seventh album in the wake of fresh heartbreak. In songs that pair ornate arrangements and billowing...
moisturizer
The UK duo’s second album is a near-reinvention, an unbridled and clear-eyed testament to their songwriting chops that hones their v...
Momma’s Welcome to My Blue Sky Is a Coming-of-Age Dream Drenched in Grunge Pop Glory
Brooklyn duo Momma have always had a knack for fusing vulnerability with distortion, but on their latest album Welcome to My Blue Sk...
More
After 24 years, Jarvis Cocker and his baroque-pop band return to remind you, with rakish wit and horny wisdom, that your whole life...
Music for Writers
The Brooklyn guitarist moves away from his customary folk and rock roots on an album of atmospheric ambient music intended as a comp...
Negotiations EP
On an EP of icy, chrome-plated pop that considers the body and mind as glitching machines, the Los Angeles musician seeks out a soft...
Neighborhood Gods Unlimited
On his sly, artful new album, the Los Angeles-based rapper confronts an inhumane information society with determination to claw back...
Neon Grey Midnight Green
Neko Case’s eighth album meets the storms of memory and grief with a clarity of purpose and an awe for life. It’s a reflective momen...
Never Enough
The biggest band in hardcore grows big enough to encompass electronic rhythms and flute meditation. Its new album winks to outsize e...
No One Was Driving the Car
On an album named after a deadly Tesla crash, the Michigan band channels its rage over greed, corruption, and empty promises into am...
No Rain, No Flowers
After a year of professional frustrations, the duo—with help from a suite of collaborators—trades its gnarled blues-rock for blues-i...
Nobody’s Girl
The songwriter and fiddle player’s latest record comes after her divorce from fellow Americana artist Jason Isbell. Comprising mostl...
Now That’s What I Call Crank! 25
Both nostalgic and forward-looking, the latest entry in the veteran DMV rap producer’s mixtape series offers an insider’s tour of a...
O Que as Mulheres Querem
Even when the São Paulo-based producer laces his mandelão—a harsh, noisy subgenre of Brazilian funk—with hints of global club styles...
once more EP
The New York rapper-producer refines his singularly unrefined style on a short, slaphappy new EP featuring a standout song with Osam...
Once Was Ours Forever
On his latest album, the Netherlands-based musician continues to refine his distinctive style of ambient guitar music, now bolstered...
Only Frozen Sky Anyway
On his 18th studio album, the eternally young-at-heart power-pop troubadour—joined by his old friend Jerry Harrison—turns his though...
Orcutt Shelley Miller
Amid a monumental string of solo records, the guitarist forms a power trio that marches delightfully toward psychedelic oblivion.
Pain to Power
Mesmerizing but somewhat disjointed, the Manchester group’s debut album boomerangs between hardcore, hip-hop, free jazz, and alt-roc...
Paradise Now
The Nigerian British pop star’s overstuffed new album shines when it’s danceable, complex, and ferocious.
Part Time Baby: A Track-by-Track Journey Through Came From a Woman
Part Time Baby – Came From a Woman | Exposed Vocals Album Review & Exclusive Interview Came From a Woman Part Time Baby Track-by...
Phantom Island
The prolific Australian group lavishes its gently trippy compositions with orchestral arrangements. The results are often frustratin...