Onra Offers Up Future Funk, Balearic Beat, Synth Wave Jam on ‘Nobody Has to Know’
Nobody Has to Know by Onra is chill, fun, but it fails to strike as new or improved on anything.
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Palm’s ‘Rock Island’ Is Four Directors, No Script, One Massive Math Rock Fever Dream
Rock Island by Palm is so far the best indie rock record of 2018.
Ty Segall Goes Bonkers on ‘Freedom’s Goblin’ and We Love It
The polar opposite of last year's clear, clean self-titled outing, this double record is the refrigerator sandwich of Ty Segall's career.
Matthewdavid Creates a Beat Tape on ‘Time Flying Beats’
Time Flying Beats takes folders of unused beats and presents them in an atypical order, the more abrasive and simple at top, and the more swirling, complex and excellent at the bottom.
Sufjan Stevens Gives ‘The Greatest Gift’ to His Biggest Fans
The Greatest Gift is a record for those who are already Sufjan Stevens diehard fans, and there are a LOT.
Visible Cloaks: Lex (album review)
Visible Cloaks' goal on Lex is to get you to live. To live in spaces and places, to occupy another's zone.
Dan Deacon: Rat Film
For an artist like Dan Deacon so intensely involved with constant maximalism at the expense of almost all other endeavors, this is a left turn.
Avey Tare: Eucalyptus
Recalling Syd Barrett, the record continues here and there with intentionally poor pacing and a wacky progression.
Hopefully Not Lost in Translation: A Brief Chat with Cornelius
The Grammy-nominated soundscaper Cornelius is back with his first new non-soundtrack solo record in over a decade, and has stories of crazy fans and Spotifying with kids to go with it.
Arcade Fire: Everything Now
Arcade Fire is not old enough for this work as late career orthodoxy nor suave enough to cook these observations into delicious bites.
It’s Hummingbird Day: An Interview with Mark McGuire
For celebrated ambient/instrumentalist Mark McGuire, why bother updating your social media platforms when a hummingbird can distract you right outside your window?
Rolling Blackouts C.F.: French Press EP
Rolling Blackout C.F.'s new EP is for indie rock fans alone and can’t stretch past the borders of the genre.