Omar Apollo is an up-and-coming icon. Also known as Omar Apolonio Velasco, this 23-year-old ...
album reviews
King Krule Triumphantly Returns with ‘The Ooz’
King Krule’s The Ooz starts out modestly with “Biscuit Town,” leaning more towards the jazzy, ...
Moses Sumney’s Aromanticism Leaves Little Room For Longing
Moses Sumney’s debut full-length Aromanticism, released Sept 22nd on Jagjagwar, is a shimmery ...
The National transitions with Sleep Well Beast
The National’s most recent album, Sleep Well Beast, released September 8, 2017, is characterized by ...
Albums That Don’t Suck As Much As I Once Thought
While on a music-deletion rampage sometime last week, I realized that a lot of the albums I ...
Parquet Courts’ Human Performance Is Their Most Novel and Innovative Human Performance Yet
Parquet Courts released Human Performance April 8th, and admittedly, after their last album, I can’t ...
Frankie Cosmos’ “Next Thing” Perfects the Art of Sophisticated Youth
“I’m twenty, washed up already,” Frankie Cosmos proclaims in the aptly-named “I’m 20,” the eighth ...
The Death of a Bachelor and the Start of Something Great
Possibly one of the most notable things about Death of a Bachelor is that it is the first time ...
Beach House Serves Dessert
Beach House is one of those bands that has a “brand.” Not in the consumerist sense, per se, but in ...
Alex G’s Beach Music Is Perfect for Anywhere But the Beach
Alex Giannascoli—Alex G, as he is known—has been particularly prolific this year, releasing Rules ...