As It Ever Was, So It Will Be Again The Decemberists (YABB, 2024) With their latest album, the aptly named As It Ever Was, So Will It Be Again, the...
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Long Way Home Ray LaMontagne (Liula Records, 2024) Twenty years after the release of his first studio album (2004’s Trouble), Ray LaMontagne is comfortable in...
Five Dice, All Threes Bright Eyes (ARC, 2024) On Five Dice, All Threes, Bright Eyes serves up one of their most conceptually coherent albums in years. With 10...
Manning Fireworks MJ Lenderman (ANTI-, 2024) Sometimes it’s hard to decide whether we should yell at or empathize with the masculine lonely jerks in our lives...
The Auditorium Vol. 1 Common & Pete Rock (Loma Vista, 2024) Theologian Alejandro Nava argues that hip hop should be considered engraced “street scriptures...
Don’t Forget Me Maggie Rogers (Debay Sounds, 2024) When Maggie Rogers became famous after the release of her 2019 album Heard It in a Past Life, she realized...
Brat Charli XCX (Atlantic, 2024) Am I crying, or is the lime green just searing my eyes? Brat, the latest dispatch from pop maverick Charli XCX, is packaged as...
Dark Matter Pearl Jam (Monkeywrench, 2024) When you love a band, it can be a challenge to write about them. I have seen Pearl Jam live in concert at least six...
Cowboy Carter Beyoncé (Columbia Records, 2024) Beyoncé is one of the few artists in popular music today who makes albums that aim for the heft and significance...
Prelude to Ecstasy The Last Dinner Party (Island, 2024) London-based indie/baroque rock band The Last Dinner Party makes an impressive debut with Prelude to...
