Album of the Week: Vessel by Frankie Cosmos
A great step forward in Kline’s approach to songwriting, VESSEL is a true indie pop gem.
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Album of the Week: Alice Bag’s Blueprint
“The songs often find their inspiration in real-life moments that caused Bag to take stock and assess her own blueprint—to take a stand or fix a problem: personal, political, or both.”
...moreAlbum of the Week: Mount Eerie’s Now Only
“Stepping into the role of Phil Elverum of Mount Eerie held the promise of positive empathy and praise, but also the difficulty of inhabiting the intense grief that produced the music.”
...moreAlbum of the Week: Soccer Mommy’s Clean
“I’d always wanted my music to sound this way, I just didn’t have the means before.”
...moreAlbum of the Week: Mint Field’s Pasar De Las Luces
“Amezcua’s synths and Sanchez’s vocals craft the perfect soundtrack to get lost in…”
...moreAlbum of the Week: Loma by Loma
“[T]here was an unspoken feeling of urgency, and a sense that a big change was coming for all of us, and I think we all tried to channel that into the work.”
...moreAlbum of the Week: Blood by Rhye
“The past is in your blood, it’s about genetics, it’s about love, your heart.”
...moreAlbum of the Week: Nils Frahm’s All Melody
“ALL MELODY was imagined to be so many things over time and it has been a whole lot, but never exactly what I planned it to be.”
...moreAlbum of the Week: I Can Feel You Creep Into My Private Life by tUnE-yArDs
“…I am—as so many musicians do—taking those influences and turning them into music that’s under my name.”
...moreAlbum of the Week: Björk’s Utopia
“i feel in this time of trump it is a necessity to have a plan, a manifesto, an alternative.”
...moreAlbum of the Week: Charlotte Gainsbourg’s Rest
“I wasn’t scared about being personal. It’s an open dialogue to myself, to my sister, to my father.”
...moreAlbum of the Week: Peter Oren’s Anthropocene
“Should we all write protest songs? Only if that’s what’s on your mind. I can’t help but write political songs.”
...moreAlbum of the Week: Revelations by Shamir
“It’s not really that calculated anymore. I’m bearing my soul in these songs, and just giving it how it is.”
...moreAlbum of the Week: Julien Baker’s Turn Out the Lights
“Passivity is a tacit endorsement of evil we are too afraid to oppose actively. You can’t just always let go.”
...moreAlbum of the Week: Bully’s Losing
“To me, music is a personal and emotional thing.”
...moreAlbum of the Week: St. Vincent’s MASSEDUCTION
“You can’t fact-check it, but if you want to know about my life, listen to this record.”
...moreAlbum of the Week: Take Me Apart by Kelela
“The reality is that the way that I’m expressing myself on this record is coming from a place of vulnerability that is very much in the tradition of R&B.”
...moreAlbum of the Week: Moses Sumney’s Aromanticism
AROMANTICISM is a new vision of songwriting, a trip into contemporary loneliness, and proof that, nowadays, every man is an island.
...moreAlbum of the Week: Annie Hart’s Impossible Accomplice
Annie Hart, singer, keyboardist, and bassist for Au Revoir Simone, is debuting a solo album, IMPOSSIBLE ACCOMPLICE, out via Uninhabitable Mansions.
...moreAlbum of the Week: Nadine Shah’s Holiday Destination
“The fact that they had no shame in saying that whilst being interviewed, on national television… it really shocked me.”
...moreAlbum of the Week: Call It Love by Briana Marela
Call It Love is Briana Marela’s third album, and her first after signing with Jagjaguwar. In the album’s ten tracks, the Seattleite explores the many facets of love, from its early sweet moments to the ending of a relationship, with a detour inspired by the book The Farthest Shore by Ursula K Le Guin. “I write […]
...moreAlbum of the Week: Vic Mensa’s The Autobiography
At only twenty-four, Vic Mensa is already an established member of the Chicago music scene and a social justice activist—from protesting his hometown police department after the shooting of shooting of Laquan McDonald to flying to Standing Rock and joining with the protestors to fight against allowing construction the Dakota Access Pipeline, he’s made his […]
...moreAlbum of the Week: Mellow Waves by Cornelius
Cornelius is the alter ego of the legendary Japanese composer, producer, and multi-instrumentalist Keigo Oyamada. Twenty years after releasing their iconic album Fantasma in 1997, and putting an end to an eleven-year-long silence, the Tokyo-based musician and his band are now back with Mellow Waves, out now via Rostrum Records. Having shifted from the postmodern cut-and-paste […]
...moreAlbum of the Week: Waxahatchee’s Out in the Storm
Waxahatchee just released Out in the Storm, via Merge Records, last week. Back in April, singer-songwriter Katie Crutchfield spoke to Abby Haglage over at Lenny Letter about what’s behind the band’s fourth album: I don’t want to call it a break-up record, but it was a romantic and professional relationship that fell apart. I had to end it, and […]
...moreAlbum of the Week: Something to Tell You by HAIM
Four years after releasing their impressive debut album Days Are Gone, HAIM are back with their long-awaited sophomore project, Something to Tell You, out now via Polydor. The three Angeleno sisters Este, Danielle, and Alana have kept their distinctive, classic rock sound—inherited from the cover band they fronted in the early days together with their parents—smoothed out by […]
...moreAlbum of the Week: Dust by Laurel Halo
Born in Michigan but currently based in Berlin, Germany, Laurel Halo is one of the most compelling electronic producers around. Halo’s third album, Dust, is out now from Hyperdub, and is breaking all preconceptions about women in electronic music. Mixing experimental beats, synth pop, and abstract sounds, with techno hints that peek out in her live sets, the classical […]
...moreAlbum of the Week: Fake Sugar by Beth Ditto
After rising to fame a decade ago with her band Gossip, and following a five-year silence, Beth Ditto is back on the scene with her first solo album, Fake Sugar, out now via Virgin. Ditto’s charming pop performances find a new awakening in the twelve tracks of the album, on which she sings again about love, relationships […]
...moreAlbum of the Week: Bravado by Kirin J. Callinan
“With every decision I made, I picked the least-tasteful option,” Australian singer-songwriter Kirin J. Callinan told the FADER in discussing how his newest album, Bravado (Terrible Records) came to be. A wacky yet riveting journey into the clichés of contemporary pop but with a distinguished sonic quality and production, the album features guest appearances from DeMarco, […]
...moreAlbum of the Week: To Syria, With Love by Omar Souleyman
Before becoming one of the most praised electronic music producers of the last few years, Omar Souleyman was a successful wedding singer in his homeland Syria, with something like five hundred live albums released through 2011, the year the civil war broke in his country, forcing him to flee to Turkey, where he’s been based ever since. […]
...moreAlbum of the Week: True to Self by Bryson Tiller
Bryson Tiller made himself known in 2015, when, hailing from the streets of Louisville, KY, the then-twenty-two-year-old singer, rapper, and songwriter posted his debut single “Don’t” on his Soundcloud page, introducing a new style that blends “the urgency of trap music with the smoother sound of alternative R&B.” Subsequently, Tiller released his first album, T R A P […]
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