Year Album Artist Stars Score Genre 2023 Javelin Sufjan Stevens ★★★★ 88 Rock Indie Folk Chamber Pop There’s beauty and innovation in every one of Sufjan Stevens’ releases, but Javelin brings all the best elements of his career together into one package. It has the old-world folk whimsy of his early years without the hokeyContinue reading “Javelin – Sufjan Stevens ★★★★”
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O Monolith – Squid ★★★½
Year Album Artist Stars Score Genre 2023 O Monolith Squid ★★★½ 77 Rock Alternative Rock Post Punk With O Monolith, Squid puts together a tighter album that cleans up some of the meandering moments on the band’s 2021 debut, Bright Green Field. In doing so, however, some of the character of the first album isContinue reading “O Monolith – Squid ★★★½”
Cave World – Viagra Boys ★★★★
Year Album Artist Stars Score Genre 2022 Cave World Viagra Boys ★★★★ 83 Rock Punk Rock Post Punk On Cave World, Viagra Boys channel the energy of a drunken Iggy Pop singing sarcastically about conspiracy theorists and internet trolls over new wave and alternative dance music. It’s fun, it’s funny, it’s energetic, it’s abrasive andContinue reading “Cave World – Viagra Boys ★★★★”
Zooropa – U2 ★★½
Year Album Artist Stars Score Genre 1993 Zooropa U2 ★★½ 55 Rock Alternative Rock To call Zooropa a misstep for U2 would be unfair. It would be tough for any album to match the success and status of Achtung Baby or Joshua Tree; anything coming after was sure to mildly disappoint, at a minimum. U2Continue reading “Zooropa – U2 ★★½”
Room on Fire – The Strokes ★★★★
Year Album Artist Star Score Genre 2003 Room on Fire The Strokes ★★★★ 85 Rock Alternative Rock Indie Rock It’s hard to follow up a debut album that reinvigorated an entire genre of music with anything but disappointment, but the Strokes really did the best anyone possibly could have on Room on Fire. The StrokesContinue reading “Room on Fire – The Strokes ★★★★”
El Camino – The Black Keys ★★★
Year Album Artist Stars Score Genre 2011 El Camino The Black Keys ★★★ 66 Rock Alternative Rock Blues Rock El Camino represents The Black Keys at their peak popularity. “Lonely Boy” was an absolute banger of a single that had a lot more energy than what they had offered the album prior, an energy that’sContinue reading “El Camino – The Black Keys ★★★”
Brothers – The Black Keys ★★★½
Year Album Artist Stars Score Genre 2010 Brothers The Black Keys ★★★½ 71 Rock Indie Rock Blues Rock I look back fondly on the days when The Black Keys were considered hip and cool, when they seemed like one of the last holdouts of the garage rock movement that started in the early 2000s withContinue reading “Brothers – The Black Keys ★★★½”
Everything is Alive – Slowdive
Year Album Artist Stars Score Genre 2023 Everything is Alive Slowdive ★★★ 67 Rock Alternative Rock Shoegaze Shoegaze stalwarts Slowdive return for the first time in six years with Everything is Alive, an album with a slightly different flavor than anything they’ve done in the past. The band seems to have pulled on the reins,Continue reading “Everything is Alive – Slowdive”
Girl with Fish – feeble little horse ★★★½
Year Album Artist Stars Score Genre 2023 Girl With Fish feeble little horse ★★★½ 78 Rock Indie Rock Shoegaze feeble little horse’s Girl with Fish is a quick, delightful indie rock record that, when necessary, utilizes a perfect amount of reverb, distortion, bendy dissonance and electronic sound effects to bring its seemingly intimate presentation toContinue reading “Girl with Fish – feeble little horse ★★★½”
Transatlanticism – Death Cab for Cutie ★★★★★
Year Album Artist Stars Score Genre 2003 Transatlanticism Death Cab For Cutie ★★★★★ 98 Rock Indie Rock Emo It’s probably obvious for me to say that the goal of a song, typically, is for the lyrics, vocals and instruments to all line up in perfect harmony. If that’s the case, the goal of a record,Continue reading “Transatlanticism – Death Cab for Cutie ★★★★★”
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