Rating: 8/10 Kindred, Passion Pit’s third release, is just as indie alt pop lovely as their previous works. Opening with “Lifted Up (1985),” it sounds almost similar to Phoenix’s first album (speaking of which, they…
Final Rating: 6.6/10 If anything, this release sounds less to do with despair than it does the celebration of freedom. K.I.D. (Kids in Despair) is comprised of societal runaways Kara Lane and Bobby Lo. The…
Final rating: 5.4/10 Odd Future certainly has had just that. They were one of the tightest rap collectives in years. Wolf gang and its acronym Golf wang were stitched into every snap back. At a…
Rating: 8/10 When Jamie T released his first album in five years last year, it was one of the greatest comebacks in history. Carry On The Grudge was more than a successful album– it signified…
Final Rating: 7.8/10 Airick Woodhead has made quite a name for himself. He tossed out the ambient abstract chiller Lesser Evil early in 2013, and this new artist known as Doldrums became a sleeper hit…
Rating: 9/10 For God’s sake. I can’t stop/won’t stop (hahahahah! Get it?) listening to The Maine and I hate myself for it (I’m lying). I mean, okay. I used to listen to The Maine a…
Rating: 8/10 I can’t believe there’s a new Death Cab album. I’d literally given up all hope. But, like the album suggests, the band wasn’t completely unfixable– Kintsugi is an allusion to the Japanese art…
Final Rating: 8.8/10 Look at the sheep. They graze under the bright light while the ominous shadows lurk above them. The image is repeated twice on the cover of Asunder, Sweet and Other Distress. The…
Rating: 9/10 With Earl’s third album, an obvious change is seen in the rapper. He is older, more mature. As he said in an interview with NPR, “I’m grown.” The opening track “Huey” is already…
