Rob O'Connor
He isn’t mellowing with age, but serving up more Cure, as you’ve come to expect.
15y
An overall sound that’s been compressed and flatlined into one continuous buzz, this sounds like a tired band that had already gone through the motions before it even started.
15y
This sense of loneliness haunts Kozelek’s best work, and it’s in full force throughout April, arguably the finest album of his career.
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2y
He occasionally ups the pulse for jovial kicks, but the record maintains its hypnotic spell with slow-as-IV-drip rhythms that set the scene for Hawley’s moonlit walks down lonely streets.
12y
Echoing the tone and title of their 2001 album Quiet Is the New Loud, Riot on an Empty Street shimmers with melancholy beauty.
8y
As a songwriter, the band's singer and guitarist, Rivers Cuomo, takes a juvenile tack on personal relationships. Throughout Pinkerton, he pines for all the girls he can't have, the girls he can have but shouldn't, the girls who are no good for him and the girls about whom he just isn't sure.
11y
The Curtain Hits the Cast is Low's third album and continues the slow burn so brilliantly featured on last year's Transmission EP.
3y
Music that is often hypnotic and bewildering, humble yet not of this world.
11y
Painters I occasionally overloads the listener with cognitive and musical dissonance ... But mostly the album balances disquieting tales and majestic melodies with grace.
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2y
His drunken bluster to the fore, Waits tramples melodies with an ear for twisting clichés. The music matches Waits’s hollers with plenty of upright bass, late-night piano and over-the-top percussion.
11y
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