From the rafters of Usher Hall, I longed to be down below in the crowd but stayed grateful for my press tickets as I waited to see a band that I’ve loved for so long. A band so distinct to my home of the northeastern US, whose lead singer is from a New Jersey town […]
Vampire Weekend have released new music and the world is at peace. After six years of silence, Vampire Weekend have finally dropped new music and it’s everything anyone could want. ‘Harmony Hall’ doesn’t have a revolutionary new sound, or even particularly original lyrics, but it’s a joyous and soulful reintroduction to a band important to […]
A solid collaboration between Aesop Rock, a prose-oriented rapper, and Tobacco, the frontman of psych outfit BMSR, is something probably no one wanted, but is surprisingly the first great project of the year. Aesop Rock has always been an extremely talented wordsmith, but behind his prose and flow has always been unimpressive beats and dull […]
Arguably 2018 was one of the best years for music in recent memory, yielding lots of bold and beautiful statements from a variety of artists. 9. Noname – Room 25 One of the most interesting fusions of hip-hop and R&B came from the talented Noname with this breakout record chronicling injustice, insecurities, and growing into […]
Parquet Courts are some of the most unique rock musicians in the industry right now and their tour promoting new album Wide Awake! has them performing at arguably their highest calibre. The Brooklyn-based band has been making consistently interesting and unique art-punk since 2011, with their 2012 debut studio release Light Up Gold bringing them […]
Brighton’s Fickle Friends are making some of the freshest indie-pop music right now; their Glasgow show was every bit as glitzy and fun as one would hope. The band had two openers, the first being a local acoustic act, Be Charlotte, and the other being the up-and-coming Marsicans. While Marsicans were not exactly for everyone, […]
Aviary, Julia Holter’s fifth studio album and an experimental 90 minute opus, is a lot to unpack. Holter is, in the author’s opinion, one of the top five artists of the decade and has put out four excellent records since 2011, her last two being absolute masterpieces. Aviary keeps with her streak of excellence, while […]
It is rare that a band literally angers the listener by so clearly wasting their potential on a record, but sadly this is the case for Young Jesus on The Whole Thing Is Just There. The band’s 2017 debut was fine. It mostly suffered from drawn-out songs and a lack of clear melodies but was […]