Album Reviews

Abronia’s engaging new album, Map of Dawn, helps listeners navigate complex feelings caused by troubling times

Photo by Carissa Pereira If you aren’t familiar with Abronia yet, it’s time for that…

Kendrick Lamar turns away from it all on Mr. Morale & The Big Steppers

For 1855 days, Kendrick has been going through something. On his new album, Mr. Morale…

“We Can Help You Out,” the slapping sophomore album from Mr. Vale’s Math Class, is a fun and festive array of songs sure to get you moving

Starting off strong with bangers like “Math SOS,” “Do Your Math,” (written by Jordan Vale…

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Billy Woods’ Aethiopes is maddeningly good.

Work like this cannot be “reviewed” in the sense that it’s so far beyond the framework of good and bad, of numerical

Half Shadow’s latest album, “At Home With My Candles,” is the poetic release we need right now

At Home With My Candles, the third full-length album by eclectically esoteric and long-time local…

HELP’s 2053 is a shrill battle cry against complacency in a crumbling world

HELP’s full-length debut (the highly anticipated follow-up to their self-titled EP of 2019) 2053, is here with a vengeance.

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Machado Mijiga works in the in-betweens on his new album, Gradient.

Machado Mijiga works in the in-betweens on his new album, Gradient, coloring with broad sonic…

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Willi Northside demands we grow with his latest album, Plant the Damn Seeds

Willi Northside moves at the speed of thought, here and then gone, on his new…

Boy Harsher’s “The Runner (Original Soundtrack)” examines the human condition through the lens of campy horror

At the brink of 2020’s semi-social collapse—the live music scene dwindling to a low hum—Boy…

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Album Review: Earl Sweatshirt, Sick!

Earl Sweatshirt has made a career of going inside, inhabiting his scenes, the minds of…