The great women artists of modern history knew that the most intense and powerful rage can wield a hammer, but the hammer is the means …
Yaeji: With a Hammer Album Review
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Wednesday: <em>Rat Saw God</em>
Wednesday’s raucous, raucous sound finds a home in the quiet, lonely corners of America. Their excellent new album is the reason why they are one …
Bambii: “One Touch”
The insane new single from the Toronto club producer is a mix of siren synths, distorted dancehall samples and down-tuned vocals.
Boygenius: The Record Album Review
“With You Without Them” is a kitchen anthem sung in soft morning light; it’s a song about history, heritage, and in that spirit it continues …
Arooj Aftab / Vijay Iyer / Shahzad Ismaily: Love in Exile Album Review
Since 2015, Arooj Aftab has slowly distilled the essence of his work. On his debut album, bird under water, the Pakistani-born, Brooklyn-based composer melded ghazal, …
Lana Del Rey: Did You Know That There’s a Tunnel Under Ocean Blvd Album Review
Such a sentiment could easily be extrapolated to a comment about millennial unease, but this feels more personal. It’s Lana, a self-made emblem of vulnerable …
Yves Tumor: Praise a Lord Who Chews but Which Does Not Consume; (Or Simply, Hot Between Worlds) Album Review
Yves Tumor began his career in the low-ceilinged world of experimental noise, but from the beginning, his yearning for bigger stages, sweeping statements, limitless horizons, …
100 gecs: 10,000 gecs Album Review
On the surface, gecs are the least serious bunch this side of early 90s Ween, always up for a deceptively stupid good time. That the …
Lonnie Holley: Oh Me Oh My Album Review
A descendant of slavery, Holley also taps into the intergenerational lineage of black trauma, dramatizing an exchange between an enslaved person and their enslaver on …
Fever Ray: “Shiver” Track Review
Echoing through Fever Ray’s “Shiver” are four pleading words: “Just a little touch.” An urgent message from the heart of our touch deprivation crisis, not …