August 20, 2016 / Def Jam 8.7 [RECORDED LOG: 2:12 AM CST: August 6, 2016] *begin tape*      God, this is BULLSHIT. I don't know who the fuck this guy thinks he is, but he had better drop this act right NOW. I have been hyping this shit up for the past three-and-a-half years, and if … Continue reading Frank Ocean – Blonde →

May 27, 2016 / Royal Mountain 8.8  "Your sister thinks that I'm a freak!" screams PUP lead vocalist Stefan Babcock on DVP, second song, lead single and major highlight off of the band's second and micro-breakthrough LP The Dream Is Over. "She's been ignoring my calls, we haven't spoken in a week! I get so drunk that … Continue reading PUP – The Dream is Over →

August 5, 2016 / Jagjaguwar 7.6 You gotta hand it to Dinosaur Jr.. Not many indie bands come back from the other side after signing to a major label. Looking at examples like Jawbreaker, the major label ends up being the death sentence, and indeed, just a couple years after signing to Blanco y Negro, … Continue reading Dinosaur Jr. – Give a Glimpse of What Yer Not →

April 15, 2016 / Atlantic 8.6 A good country album? Isn't that supposed to be an oxymoron? Or at least an extinct species? I thought they hunted down and killed the last of those back in, like, the late '50s or something, after Marty Robbins started getting too catchy. Perhaps. But then how do you explain the existence … Continue reading Sturgill Simpson – A Sailor’s Guide to Earth →

July 8, 2016 / Innovative Leisure 8.5 I'm gonna share two quotes right now. Let's discuss them real quick. Ready? "Jazz is like a telescope, and a lot of other music is like a microscope." -Kamasi Washington "There are two types of people: people who dislike jazz and fucking liars." -some guy on Memebase or … Continue reading BADBADNOTGOOD – IV →

July 1, 2016 / Columbia 7.9 If you take a little trip back to the 1980s and listen to some R&B albums from back when the genre was only just getting off the ground, and then follow that up with a modern album or two, you'll notice that, for the most part, the genre has … Continue reading Maxwell – blackSUMMERS’night →

May 20, 2016 / Matador 9.6 "'What happened to that chubby little kid, who smiled too much and loved the Beach Boys?' 'What happened is I killed that fucker, and I took his name and I got new glasses.'"      Jesus. Well, that little dialogue more or less sums up the overall lyrical mood of Teens … Continue reading Car Seat Headrest – Teens of Denial →

July 15, 2016 / Warp 7.0 Aphex Twin pulled a semi-Radiohead with this one. The unmastered tracks "Cheetah3 Teac" and "CHEETAH7", two of several tracks from his 2015 Soundcloud update, have reappeared in reverse-Untitled Unmastered fashion on the new Cheetah EP, the fourth release in Richard D. James's continuation after a lengthy hiatus, a series of more-than-yearly … Continue reading Aphex Twin – Cheetah EP →

July 8, 2016 / XL 10  Having my first review be for as enormous event of an album such as A Moon Shaped Pool in the end turned out to be an unbelievably difficult and mentally exhausting task. Therefore, I decided afterwards that whatever album I wrote my second review on would preferably be one with less... substance to … Continue reading The Avalanches – Wildflower →

May 8, 2016 / XL 10 So this is obviously the very first review I'm putting on this site, and as such I was more than a little hesitant to immediately hand out a perfect score, especially to a band such as Radiohead where such a move would look pretty cliché on my part. So … Continue reading Radiohead – A Moon Shaped Pool →