More Than Any Other Day by Ought
Ought’s sound encompasses many variants and eras of punk & post-punk on More Than Any Other Day. Debut album from Montreal punk band- made up of all ex-pats from the U.S. who met at university in...
Sunbathing Animals by Parquet Courts
“Sunbathing Animal” by Parquet Courts, a punkish indie-rock Brooklyn band (half of the members are from Denton, Tx) is better sounding, better produced, more ambitious and better reviewed than their first...
Salad Days by Mac DeMarco
Salad Days by Mac DeMarco emerges as a stellar album with zero weak cuts, many standouts, much variety, loaded with cleverness and even lyrical depth. Count me as one of the people surprised that a seemingly...
Atlas by Real Estate
Suburban New Jersey raised Real Estate has gotten progressively better with each of their three albums and “Atlas” is a true beauty filled with chiming jangle pop and melancholy music about love,...
St. Vincent by St. Vincent
St. Vincent's Annie Clark absolutely shreds on electric guitar, but does so in a controlled, robotic way showing us that the art, the music and the theatrics are all part of a well-orchestrated...
Lost in the Dream by The War on Drugs
The War On Drugs are a Philadelphia indie-rock band who made a good if not great album a few years back called “Slave Ambient” and Philly native son Kurt Vile used to be a former member. “Lost In The...
Run The Jewels 2 by Run The Jewels
After standout rapper/producer and former head of NYC Godhead indie label Def Jux, El-P took the boards for dirty South veteran Atlanta rapper Killer Mike’s breakout album “R.A.P. Music” a true...