Small Changes Michael Kiwanuka (Polydor, 2024) In the end, the world will be saved by beauty. This was one of Dorothy Day’s favorite quotes from Dostoyevsky...
Music
As Christians, we don’t typically view music the way we view activities like recreational sex or drunk driving. While Christian morality warns against...
Night Palace Mount Eerie (P.W. Elverum & Sun, 2024) Phil Elverum just wants to feel alive. All of his music, be it released under The Microphones or Mount...
Songs of a Lost World The Cure (Fiction Records, 2024) After 16 years of recording dormancy, British band The Cure is back with an album, Songs of a Lost...
Talking about his late friend Thomas Merton, acclaimed jazz vibraphonist Dick Sisto says jazz resembles Merton’s own approach to writing. Sisto, a former...
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...
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...
