Album Reviews

Intensive Care and the Body Was I Good Enough review

Intensive Care & The Body : Was I Good Enough?

A blistering industrial-noise collaboration with subtle, melodic moments

Lonnie Holley Tonky review

Lonnie Holley : Tonky

Another excellent set of music from the veteran artist, one that blurs the line between music and poetry

Venamoris to cross or to burn review

Venamoris : To Cross or To Burn

Dave and Paula Lombardo’s sophomore album seeks a path toward healing through heavy sounds

Derya Yilddrim Yarin Yoksa review

Derya Yıldırım & Grup Şimşek : Yarın Yoksa

The Berlin-based group’s Leon Michels-produced new LP incorporates funk, Anatolian rock and psychedelic folk in a fusion swirl

Goodbye Horses The Many Lives of Q Lazzarus review

Q Lazzarus : Goodbye Horses: The Many Lives of Q Lazzarus

The companion album to the documentary about the enigmatic artist reveals a world of music beyond “Goodbye Horses”

Hiroshi Yoshimura Flora review

Hiroshi Yoshimura : Flora

Recorded in 1987 but unreleased until three years after the ambient artist’s death, this serene album is given a much-welcome reissue

SASAMI Blood on the Silver Screen review

SASAMI : Blood on the Silver Screen

An album of emotional and escapist pop with a subtle classical influence

The Tubs Cotton Crown review

The Tubs : Cotton Crown

The UK group’s sophomore album pairs heartbreaking lyricism with bright, jangly guitars

Jason Isbell Foxes in the Snow review

Jason Isbell : Foxes in the Snow

A stripped down and nakedly vulnerable album written after Isbell’s divorce

Bartees Strange Horror review

Bartees Strange : Horror

The singer/songwriter’s latest is a sure-footed album about trying to find confidence

Point Contact a fleeting point in terrifying beauty review

Point Contact : A Fleeting Point in Terrifying Beauty

Harsh zeniths and quietly brooding atmospheres stitched side by side

you, infinite review

you, infinite : you, infinite

A solid if slightly vexing set of post-rock

Youth Lagoon Rarely Do I Dream review

Youth Lagoon : Rarely Do I Dream

An indie pop album that echoes life itself

Miya Folick Erotica Veronica

Miya Folick : Erotica Veronica

The California singer/songwriter offers an album for the romantics

Masma Dream World Please Come to Me review

Masma Dream World : PLEASE COME TO ME

The sophomore release from Devi Mambouka is a dark and haunting ritual

Ichiko Aoba Luminescent Creatures review

Ichiko Aoba : Luminescent Creatures

The Japanese singer/songwriter returns five years after the acclaimed ‘Windswept Adan’ with a gorgeous new set of songs

The Murder Capital Blindness review

The Murder Capital : Blindness

The British post-punk revivalists offer a set teeming with ideas if steeped in the past

Darkside Nothing review

Darkside : Nothing

Expanding to a trio with drummer Tlacael Esparza, Darkside embrace a more urgent energy

Baths Gut review

Baths : Gut

Will Wiesenfeld returns after eight years with a more personal, less electronics-driven LP

FACS Wish Defense review

FACS : Wish Defense

FACS have a particular talent for carving dense, brutalist structures into sleeker contours and captivating…