Album Reviews

St. Vincent - St. Vincent (2014)

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…

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Too True - Dum Dum Girls (2014)

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…

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Top 25 Albums of 2013

Collaboration with Agah Bahari, Dakota Arsenault and Sean Chin. Graphic by Leslie Leung This year, we’ve been spoiled with music. We’ve had terrific comeback albums from genre greats, we’ve had homages to music of the…

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ARTPOP - Lady Gaga (2013)

Final Rating: 8.8/10 Lady Gaga, often slammed or highly praised, is no stranger to controversy and to how the music industry works. After her last album Born This Way, one of which was either adored…

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Matangi - M.I.A. (2013)

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…

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Reflektor - Arcade Fire (2013)

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…

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