Reviews

Michael">Review: Les Sins, Michael

If this isn’t the most versatile dance album of the year, we missed something.

Ruins">Review: Grouper, Ruins

Ruins succeeds by its own modest standards.

Run The Jewels 2">Review: Run The Jewels, Run The Jewels 2

Killer Mike and El-P: two rappers on the brink of middle age, transmitting diamond-hard rap bangers from some freaky dystopian future.

1989">Review: Taylor Swift, 1989

The big question has never been if Taylor Swift would become a twang-free superstar diva, but how that transformation would unfold.

Tough Love">Review: Jessie Ware, Tough Love

Jessie Ware certainly knows her strengths, but does everyone with a hand or two in Tough Love’s creation know them, too?

…And Star Power">Review: Foxygen, …And Star Power

Foxygen have distended from tight, trim retro-pop to unkempt, unfocused conceptual goo in less than two years.

You’re Dead!">Review: Flying Lotus, You’re Dead!

“It spotlights death. It’s about death. It’s deathy. It reeks of death.”

Plowing Into the Field of Love">Review: Iceage, Plowing Into the Field of Love

Honesty is difficult and brutal and it should be.