Max Richter – In a LandscapeDecca Records Max Richter, the German-born British composer, has never shied away from a concept. More from Spin: Band Jury: Los Bitchos’ Serra Petale Defends Red Hot Chili Peppers’ ‘One […]
Peel Dream Magazine’s Weightless Exercise in Memory Tourism
Peel Dream Magazine – Rose Main Reading RoomTopshelf Records If you’re ever looking to come down from a panic attack, the fourth album from Peel Magazine Dream, Rose Main Reading Room, would be a novel […]
Uniform’s ‘American Standard’ Is Brilliantly Devastating
Uniform – American Standard Sacred Bones Some light verse from the pen of Uniform vocalist Michael Berdan: More from Spin: At Oblivion Access, Heaviness Comes in Many Forms The 25 Best Metal Songs of 2017 The […]
Laurie Anderson Soars on ‘Amelia’
Laurie Anderson – AmeliaNonesuch “Here come the planes,” intoned Laurie Anderson on “O Superman,” the lead single from her debut album, 1982’s Big Science. Now, 42 years after her narrator witnessed the coming of American […]
Body Meat Elevates Experimental Vision on ‘Starchris’
Body Meat – StarchrisPartisan Records Chris Taylor likes leaning into sonic chaos—fusing dance, metal, and trap to shape Body Meat’s strikingly tumultuous electronic pop. More from Spin: SPIN Returns to Print for the First Time […]
Zeal & Ardor Sound Burdened By Black-Metal Roots on ‘GREIF’
Zeal & Ardor – GREIF Redacted GmbH Rejection of metal orthodoxy is baked into the concept of Zeal & Ardor, the onetime solo project of Swiss-born musician Manuel Gagneux, who now oversees a full six-piece […]
For Melt-Banana, ‘3 + 5’ Equals Amped-Up Exhilaration
Melt-Banana – 3 + 5 A-Zap Call it Japanoise, hardcore, noise-rock, grind-core, noise-punk (as yours truly did above) or what have you, but after 30 years of banging out inordinate chunks of brain-melting genius, Melt-Banana have […]
Fontaines D.C. Leave Post-Punk Behind on the Exhilarating ‘Romance’
Fontaines D.C. – RomanceXL Where do you go after you’ve made a debut like Dogrel? More from Spin: Lee DeWyze’s ‘Gone For Days’ Is An Introspective Love Letter To the Moon Unit Zappa and Back […]
Tinashe Continues Her Winning Streak With ‘Quantum Baby’
Apt to mix the erotic and the romantic, a woman for whom an empty bed is an existential hostility, Tinashe Jorgensen Kachingwe is the Christine McVie of modern R&B. The late Fleetwood Mac singer-songwriter, poet […]
Garbagebarbie Rises From the Rubbish
How does an unknown band, one that’s never headlined an established venue, manage to sell out their first show at the Echo in Los Angeles? For garbagebarbie, the quartet of Fletcher Milloy (singer/guitar), Daniel Karasev […]
Oso Oso Return to a Sweet Spot on ‘Life Till Bones’
Oso Oso – Life Till BonesYunahon Entertainment It’s starting to feel like Jade Lilitri was born with a bottomless bag of perfect pop-rock hooks slung over his shoulder. More from Spin: Update: Eddie Vedder Leads […]
Mal Not Bad’s Debut Holds Our Hand Through the Pain
Mal Not Bad – This Is Your New Life(Same Same) Even when we’re old enough to understand that many things are out of our control, it doesn’t make it easy to accept that life is […]