A very... charming collection of pop tunes told by a drifter who lives in the empty spaces between pockets of civilization and measures time in "dotted yellow lines". More than half the songs here mention "road" in the very first sentence! I get carsick very easily so while I won't ever be able to enjoy this in one myself, it makes for a very pleasant night time listen.

The first two tracks here are very easily the best - the rest is inoffensive indie pop with the occasional melody that grabs you. Love the drums on If You Don't Believe in Love and the lively prod on I Wanna Be Loved By You but the rest mostly just passed by me.

Partially a return to the more subdued sound of his earlier career, Glory is the third great album this decade by Perfume Genius.

Beginning with two back to back bangers, the rest of Glory features more of the abstract/moody sound palette of Ugly Season (Capezio) and art pop grandeur of No Shape (In A Row, Left for Tomorrow). I don’t know how I never noticed that his lyrics often tend to be stitched-together ideas rather than a full statement meant to bring forth one specific feeling, ... read more

Serviceable indie pop that’s the right amount of energetic, but falls short where an album like this has to excel to stand apart - the melodies. Songs like Game and the lead-single Love on the Outside seem to be hiding the lack of a good hook behind a wall of fuzz. It’s still a decent throwback album but that’s about it.

Evergreen is familiar territory for soccer mommy. Heavy with the warm domesticity of her bedroom/DIY indie rock, it doesn't stray far from her signature sound and it doesn't need to.

The personal writing and her inviting voice is all she needs to create a short, sweet, 40 minutes project that has all the intimacy of a long phone call with a friend.

Much of Sound of Silver (and LCD Soundsystem’s other music, as all the other reviews suggest) is dripped in nostalgia. It appears in the diaristic lyrics as a dramatic cry for the better days of his favourite city or the heyday of his own partying days on two of the best tracks here.

An album that packs these many inventive (and ridiculously catchy) takes on electronic music would have appealed to me anyway but it’s the fact that I’m twice the distance apart as James Murphy ... read more

It's easy to expect sappy passages set to light brushes of guitar by looking at the unassuming cover of Songs and I definitely made the same mistake. What I was rewarded with instead, was a treasure trove of poetry, yes but also some truly magical musical choices that push the rhyme on the pages into a speaker set somewhere inside a 3D space.

It also happens to be far from sappy. If you tried, you could even find everything between happiness and sadness here. Wisdom is the word I'd ... read more

Nilufer Yanya is unfortunately one of those artists whose sound I find unbearably flat and lifeless. Most of the time it does nothing for me, but there are a few rare moments where something cute catches my interest. It's not enough to make me come back to this album, however.