Purple and Green’s awesome outré R&B.
Eric Grandy
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The Winter of Our Disc Content
Gang of Four’s Conflicted Comeback Album
Gang of Four’s conflicted comeback album.
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Never Forget
Blake Schwarzenbach’s War on Sentimentality
Blake Schwarzenbach’s war on sentimentality.
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Why Do People Hate CocoRosie?
An Examination in Six Parts
Five bad reasons to hate CocoRosie and one good one.
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Family Affair
Le Loup’s Celebratory Sophomore Album
Le Loup’s wide-eyed and optimistic second album, Family.
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Do You Believe in Magic?
YACHT’s Impossible New Age, New Wave Optimism
Go into the light with YACHT.
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This Love Is Fucking Right
The Pains of Being Pure at Heart’s Indie-Pop Perfection
The Pains of Being Pure at Heart’s Indie-Pop Perfection
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Summertime Bros
Why Animal Collective Is the Perfect Soundtrack for Your Summer, and Beyond
Animal Collective’s summery, un-tethered pop songs.
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Fated to Pretend
How Zac Pennington Became a Parenthetical Girl
Parenthetical Girls, deconstructed.
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The Sound of Settling
Islands’ Sophomore Album, Arm’s Way
In Nick Thorburn’s first band, the Unicorns, his songwriting was pulled by twin obsessions: the dream of pop-star immortality and the promise of real, personal death (with a little room for comedy and romance in between). Thorburn’s effective debut—following a scarcely circulated, self-released, 500-copy album called Unicorns Are People Too—was the Unicorns’ Who Will Cut […]
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Renewed Order
Cut Copy’s Balearic Pop Revival
In the 1980s, some strange shit was happening in Manchester, England. New Order were increasingly incorporating electronics and house music into their new wave and cutting dance 12-inches, Factory Records was backing the wildly out-of-control nightclub the Hacienda, some mates of the Happy Mondays were importing ecstasy into the city en masse—the punks were getting […]