James David Patrick
These new tricks might not change her orbit around the current, nebulous indie music scene, but her regulars will be more than happy to once again gather ‘round the parlor autoharp.
1y
As frontwoman on the self-titled Sharon Van Etten & the Attachment Theory LP, Van Etten fails to obscure her vocal contributions through musical depth.
1y
As an exercise in close-listening, Small Changes requires much of the audience, perhaps too much for a disengaged ear to appreciate. Disentanglement from the Now demands a quiet, receptive mind, a state that Kiwanuka rewards with a subtle and resonant album that aimed not to steal the limelight but to transcend time and overlap eras.
1y
Beautiful and grisly, laid bare to expose the scattered, unmolded imperfections of grief even as the revenge plot takes shape in the shadows.
1y
Like much of the music Snaith has reconstituted for Honey, it’s fleeting and ephemeral; no quantity of artificial Snaiths can truly convey the soul of the real one.
1y
Mering nods toward the darkness, but her music envelops listeners within a free-floating sanctuary. It’s okay to feel. It’s okay to be afraid or angry – but none of that matters, not right now. Not, at least, for the next 42 minutes.
6y
![U2 - The Joshua Tree [30th Anniversary Deluxe Edition]](https://cdn2.albumoftheyear.org/100x0/album/81188-the-joshua-tree-30th-anniversary-deluxe-edition.jpg)
It’s like the listening public has been invited into Drake self-help forum where his id and ego battle to the death every Wednesday night.
6y
The brilliance of Alvvays’ debut record is that the band has done so without easy hooks or prosaic overproduction.
3y
The UK quartet defies buzzwords and music-writing clichés, thereby transcending the indie-rock genre into which they will surely, and unfairly, be lumped.
6y
1