Album Reviews

Fenne Lily Zooms Out on the Lovely 'Big Picture'

PUBLISHED Apr 13, 2023

A common thread throughout Fenne Lily's Big Picture is the way our feelings of love are based on the specific circumstance at a given momen...

Kristi Lane Sinclair Offers Rest and Rage on 'Super Blood Wolf Moon'

PUBLISHED Apr 12, 2023

We often describe women who survive terrible things as "brave." It's a swift designation that seems to reward one's bearing the violence of...

Kara Jackson Asks the Big Questions on 'Why Does the Earth Give Us People to Love?'

PUBLISHED Apr 12, 2023

The first song recorded by Bessie Smith, the Empress of the Blues, is 1923's "Downhearted Blues." It starts with Smith pining after unrequi...

Wavves x Cloud Nothings

No Life for Me

PUBLISHED Apr 11, 2023

After teasing their collaboration for several months, Wavves' Nathan Williams and Cloud Nothings' Dylan Baldi decided to drop No Life for M...

Kid Koala Is All Fun and Games on 'Creatures of the Late Afternoon'

PUBLISHED Apr 11, 2023

Montreal-based turntablist Eric San, best known as Kid Koala, has been one of the most wonderfully inventive and wholesomely cathartic arti...

Daniel Caesar Breaks New Ground on 'NEVER ENOUGH'

PUBLISHED Apr 6, 2023

With Daniel Caesar's new album NEVER ENOUGH comes a brand new version of the Toronto R&B sensation. Leaving behind the gospel-tinged arrang...

Yaeji Smashes the Barrier Between Past and Future on 'With a Hammer'

PUBLISHED Apr 6, 2023

Kathy Yaeji Lee, the singer-producer-DJ known simply as Yaeji, keeps four notebooks in rotation, each with its own purpose: one resembles a...

Wednesday Level Up Once Again on the Bruising 'Rat Saw God'

PUBLISHED Apr 5, 2023

Today's new music Friday belongs to Wednesday. The Asheville quintet's signature brand of '90s shoegaze-meets-grunge-meets-country makes a...