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Feb 2, 2022
Laurel Hell - Mitski
Laurel Hell - Mitski // Album Review Mitski rejects binaries in ‘Laurel Hell’ set for release via Dead Oceans, Feb. 4 Getting a new...
Jan 30, 2022
Three Dimensions Deep - Amber Mark
Three Dimensions Deep - Amber Mark // Album Review Amber Mark’s debut album chronicles her journey through insecurities, coping...
Jan 30, 2022
Alone Together - Charli XCX
Alone Together - Charli XCX // DOC REVIEW Charli XCX chronicles the first COVID-19 surge through a creator’s lens in new doc A brief...
Dec 12, 2021
Riff Album Recap 2021
Riff Album Recap 2021 Wrote some words about some of my favorite albums of the year for Riff Magazine. My full personal top 30 end of...
Dec 3, 2021
KiCK - Arca
KiCK - Arca // Albums Review Arca has become known for her transgressive takes on pop and avant-garde over the past few years. The...
Nov 20, 2021
30 - Adele
30 - Adele // Album Review Adele harnesses her otherworldly vocals to delve into experiences of guilt, self-doubt, depression and an...
Nov 14, 2021
Between Us - Little Mix
Between Us - Little Mix // Album Review Little Mix stays above the fray on ‘Between Us’ released via RCA, Nov. 12 Little Mix is...
Oct 24, 2021
Blue Banisters - Lana Del Rey
Blue Banisters - Lana Del Rey // Album Review Lana Del Rey is back with her second album in six months, drawing a line in the Californian...
Oct 4, 2021
Friends That Break Your Heart - James Blake
Friends That Break Your Heart - James Blake // Album Review James Blake examines lost connections on ‘Friends That Break Your Heart’ set...
Oct 1, 2021
Flux - Poppy
Flux - Poppy // Album Review Poppy proves to be unstoppable with Flux released via Sumerian Records, Sept. 24 Poppy first earned her...
Sep 8, 2021
A Beautiful Revolution (Pt. 2) - Common
A Beautiful Revolution (Pt. 2) - Common // Album Review Common’s A Beautiful Revolution (Pt. 2) lacks its predecessor’s indelible hooks...
Sep 1, 2021
star-crossed - Kacey Musgraves
star-crossed - Kacey Musgraves // Album Review Kacey Musgraves dulls her sparkle on ‘star-crossed’ set for release via Interscope, Sept....
Aug 30, 2021
How Long Do You Think It's Gonna Last? - Big Red Machine
How Long Do You Think It's Gonna Last? - Big Red Machine // Album Review Justin Vernon and Aaron Dessner look back at what could have...
Aug 21, 2021
Solar Power - Lorde
Solar Power - Lorde // Album Review Lorde’s Solar Power is an airy body of work that refuses to stand in the long shadow cast by its...
Aug 9, 2021
Faking My Own Death - Allison Ponthier
Faking My Own Death - Allison Ponthier // EP Review With her debut EP, Allison Ponthier has brought us further into her world,...
Jul 30, 2021
Happier Than Ever - Billie Eilish
Happier Than Ever - Billie Eilish // Album Review Billie Eilish and Finneas capitalize on Eilish’s vertiginous rise to fame by broadening...
Jul 25, 2021
Gold-Diggers Sound - Leon Bridges
Gold-Diggers Sound - Leon Bridges // Album Review Notoriously calm, cool and collected musician (and twenty-first-century dandy) Leon...
Jul 15, 2021
Influences - K.D.A.P.
Influences - K.D.A.P. // Album Review As K.D.A.P., Toronto indie rock outfit Broken Social Scene frontman Kevin Drew circumvents the...
Jul 11, 2021
Baw Baw Black Sheep - Rejjie Snow
Baw Baw Black Sheep - Rejjie Snow // Album Review A departure from debut album Dear Annie’s post-relationship melancholy, Baw Baw Black...
Jun 25, 2021
CALL ME IF YOU GET LOST - Tyler, The Creator
CALL ME IF YOU GET LOST - Tyler, The Creator // Album Review Two years after the Grammy-winning IGOR, Tyler, The Creator has never...
Jun 24, 2021
To Enjoy is the Only Thing - Maple Glider
To Enjoy is the Only Thing // Album Review Maple Glider (real name: Tori Zietsch) reaches far and wide across the emotional spectrum to...
Jun 8, 2021
Ancient Dreams In A Modern Land - MARINA
Ancient Dreams In A Modern Land - MARINA // Album Review Harking back to 2010’s The Family Jewels, MARINA’s self-penned Ancient Dreams In...
Jun 7, 2021
Allison Ponthier Interview
Allison Ponthier Interview Sometimes the things you’re running away from are precisely the things you need. Allison Ponthier escaped her...
May 21, 2021
SOUR - Olivia Rodrigo
SOUR - Olivia Rodrigo // Album Review Olivia Rodrigo justifies her sudden climb to fame on SOUR by embodying a whole generation and...
May 19, 2021
Flora Fauna - Billie Marten
Flora Fauna - Billie Marten // Album Review Few artists manage to experiment time and time again while keeping intact what made their art...
May 15, 2021
Daddy's Home - St. Vincent
Daddy's Home - St. Vincent // Album Review St. Vincent takes her musicianship to downtown New York, heels in hand, with yesterday’s paint...
Apr 30, 2021
Billie Marten Interview
Billie Marten Interview Billie Marten’s new album is her statement of purpose: Flora Fauna is an affirmation of undeniable talent and,...
Apr 22, 2021
FancyNormal Interview
FancyNormal Interview Newly-formed Melbourne pop duo FancyNormal are launching full throttle across romantic 80s synth soundscapes with...
Apr 13, 2021
epic Ten - Sharon Van Etten
epic Ten - Sharon Van Etten // Album Review Sharon Van Etten celebrates the tenth anniversary of her lauded Epic with a collection of...
Apr 9, 2021
ROADRUNNER: NEW LIGHT, NEW MACHINE - BROCKHAMPTON
ROADRUNNER: NEW LIGHT, NEW MACHINE - BROCKHAMPTON // Album Review BROCKHAMPTON leave their signature ebullience behind to process grief...
Apr 8, 2021
Strange Time - MF Tomlinson
Strange Time - MF Tomlinson // Album Review A bleak reality was still setting in as we passed the one-year mark of the degradation of our...
Apr 3, 2021
The Close / Le Réveil - Josef Salvat
The Close / Le Réveil - Josef Salvat // EP Review Josef Salvat needed a good five years to overcome a case of writer’s block following...
Mar 11, 2021
PANIC ATTACK - Pussy Riot
Over ten years have passed since Pussy Riot’s inception, and the Russian activists are still using art and performance to call attention...
Mar 10, 2021
Poster Girl - Zara Larsson
Sweden met Zara Larsson at a mere ten years old as she sailed through her home country’s version of the ‘Got Talent’ shows. She’s now...
Mar 3, 2021
L.W. - King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard
Prolific Aussie outfit King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard return with a third and final foray into microtonal tuning after the ingenious...
Feb 22, 2021
dirt - Hand Habits
Hand Habits lay bare the process for consolidating their identity in their new EP, dirt. Throughout, they shed light on how they...
Feb 15, 2021
TYRON - slowthai
Inner struggles are sublimed into a communal affair in slowthai’s second LP, TYRON. As the gaze turns inwards, slowthai tells the story...
Feb 14, 2021
A Love Letter to Live Music: FKA twigs, NYC, 2019
Strange is the feeling Todd Owyoung/Red Bull Content Pool Read my blurb on the best live gig I've ever attended by the incredible FKA...
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