Jenny Death - Death Grips
March 25, 2015
Final Rating: 7.4/10 The second half of The Powers that B is finally here. This is the “final” album that Death Grips has promised us since their supposed break up. It is the second part…
Carrie and Lowell - Sufjan Stevens
March 24, 2015
Final Rating: 9.6/10 It’s spring time. The sun is out and all of the snow has melted. Life has gone on with the lingering stench of winter still behind us. The land is still mucky,…
To Pimp a Butterfly - Kendrick Lamar
March 19, 2015
Final Rating: 9.6/10 To Kill a Mockingbird is timeless. It describes the shattering of a child’s perception of a delightful world. When Scout Finch discovered something as hateful as racism, America was never the same….
Strangers To Ourselves - Modest Mouse
March 16, 2015
Rating: 9/10 Modest Mouse formed the year I was born, and I spent the subsequent years following that event listening to their music and lying on whatever mattress was on my floor from age seven…
Froot - Marina and the Diamonds
March 15, 2015
Rating: 7/10 I’ve been a fan of Marina and the Diamonds ever since 2010’s The Family Jewels came out. When Electra Heart was released, I liked it– sort of, but I wasn’t as impressed with…
Rebel Heart - Madonna
March 10, 2015
Rating: 9/10 Everyone seems to get their kicks out of making fun of Madonna for being old, but that’s where the joke ends. She’s still talented as hell– she always has been, and Rebel Heart…
Rating: 8/10 Despite having loved The Decemberists’ earlier works in the past, I was not at all excited for this, their seventh studio album. Oh God, I thought. This is going to be awful. I…
Policy - Will Butler
March 4, 2015
Final Rating: 8.2/10 “Take out the knife. Take out the knife. Sharpen it twice.” This Mack The Knife-like lyric, that comes from an equally loony song, is a piece that sets the mood of Policy….
B4.DA.$$ - Joey Bada$$
February 28, 2015
Rating: 7/10 My best friend’s boyfriend described Joey Bada$$ as “slept on,” and I have to agree. The Brooklyn-based rapper is still somewhat left-of-mainstream. Despite having released a handful of quality mixtapes and an EP,…