Sufjan Stevens released his seventh studio album, Carrie & Lowell, his most melancholic album to date, in 2015. Though most of his albums deal with inward and perceptive matters, this particular album touches on the sensitive topic of Sufjan coping with the grief of losing his mother to stomach cancer in 2012 along with providing us with some insight through glimpses from his childhood. Sonically, it is very different from its predecessor, The Age of Adz, moving ... read more
I appreciate the Van Halen tribute but they did not do it any justice, no. They might have had fun making this record but apparently the end result it is boring, forgettable and cheesy. Writing fun and dumb pop songs is in no way a substandard (look at White Album and OK Human, for example) but Van Weezer is just ehh, it’s not even catchy. Weezer is really out there sounding ... read more
Flash forward two months, on a cold November night, out of boredom (and a developing Radiohead obsession, yeah) I decide to give A Moon Shaped Pool another ... read more