Greg Walker
Adult Mom’s latest album, Natural Causes, channels indie rock heroes like Wednesday and The Beths, while recounting a battle with stage 4 breast cancer, from a first person point of view.
1y
It’s an adventurous, risk-taking album of songs to help you live your life to the fullest.
1y
A darn good album of wonderfully constructed and deeply confessional songs.
1y
It is a masterclass in well written and well produced music, which has lyrics that the modern person can totally relate with.
1y
There are many ways into this band and this EP, and perhaps as many takeaways, as well. “Does it feel good? / Does it feel good?” the line repeats, to end the album. Yes, yes it does.
1y
Another rousing success from Finn that will buoy people’s hope and faith and sing people’s griefs and woes, at the same time.
1y
It is an easy album to listen to, with Jim James’ familiar croon, and might open them up to new listeners on this album.
1y
This album is another great addition to his growing canon of songs.
1y
It’s an album made to be played over and over again, and throughout this year, bands and artists will have a hard time topping it. They are the type of band who might, like they suggest, end up on a billboard. But they’re as intimate as a good friend, who thankfully shares your musical taste, as well.
1y
The poetic delivery of their last album was one of the highlights of their sound, so it is an interesting choice, but the saxophone on Tír na nÓg is certainly its own highlight, and allows for much more of a personal interpretation of the otherworldly offering. It is another offering in the most passionate of instrumental Celtic influenced music in the vein of Ireland’s Lankum.
1y
It’s a golden album, super beautiful, super humble.
1y
It is a triumphant record, despite its sometimes-dark themes, something that convinces with both its humble honesty and its soaring ambition.
1y
You could say, if you’ve heard one Bonnie “Prince” Billy album, you’ve heard them all. But the specificity of his song topics, the genius of his simple melodies, the inner workings of one of the most interesting souls living today, make every new offering by Will Oldham a treasure, to be sure.
1y
They’re many years into their musical career, and their ability to shift their sound is impressive and interesting. You don’t have to have heard their old stuff to dig their new stuff, but it is a strong pivot.
1y
Where Kiwanuka is known for his contagious and bombastic arrangements in the past, this album pushes gently in a new direction, that is, yet, lacking none of the heart of previous albums.
1y
She’s back to the echo electronica dream pop that catapulted her onto the scene.
1y
At times it is a full-on noise assault, impressive in its gutteral attack, at times it is as mellow as an alternative pop song, but it always a display of their talent as a tight knit and super original unit.
1y
It is a wonderfully meta title for a record–Seed of a Seed—and it’s a poetic look at nurturing the things in our inner lives that will ultimately lead to our fruitfulness.
1y
They are overall earnest and interesting songs that find him baring his hopes and his fears in music that is as good as any middle-aged band is bound to put out, and better.
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