Final Rating: 7.2/10 Monica Birkenes made it big with her cover of Arcade Fire’s The Suburbs a few years ago, and this album, Pocketknife, is her eventual debut album. She has finally come around with…
Final Rating: 7.4/10 Taylor Momsen’s second spin with The Pretty Reckless is one you know she waited to make after she became an adult. It’s full of risque themes and hyper-sexuality. It’s also an album…
Final Rating: 9.2/10 St. Vincent (named after the place poet Dylan Thomas died, not after a saint) has always been cheeky with her sense of humor. She’s a bit twisted for someone so sweet. She…
Final Rating: 6.4/10 Dum Dum Girls have been releasing music pretty consistently these past few years, and the majority of their material has been pretty outstanding. Their blend of surf rock and dream pop would…
Rating: 9.6/10 Yeezus came out this summer and Kanye West’s blaring hip hop beats of abnormal sounds were unmatched. Nothing else sounded as blaring and as bombastic as West did this year when it came…
Final Rating: 9.5 “It’s just a reflektor” became a bit of an inside joke online as people awaited the misspelled album “Reflektor” by Arcade Fire; their first album since winning a grammy for Album of…
Final Rating: 5.3/10 To name your new album after what is considered a staple in hip hop history is courageous. To name your album a sequel to one of your best albums when your most…
Final Rating: 9.7/10 “I am a God” is a song and a chant on Kanye West’s sixth album Yeezus. Right off the bat, the man is to be hated for blasphemy and/or arrogance. Why, though?…
Final Rating: 8.8/10 Random Access Memory: The storage of temporary files on one’s computer. Random Access Memories: A futuristic revisitation of old music styles by androids. It’s here. New Daft Punk is finally here. You…
