Death Cab returns playing to all of their strengths on a tightly knit record with a cohesive story. The lyrical theme of grieving a love past, built into a tower in your mind, is poignant and gives each track a sense of place while the band explodes in a way that feels like their indie rock roots. It’s Death Cab’s best record since Narrow Stairs.

bitknot is missing the sense of space, poisonous lyrics, and urgency flowing throughout that made Girl with Fish my favorite record of 2023. bitknot flows with distorted guitar lines through its entirety but often our lead vocals fall so far behind them that I miss the plot. Also, in the constant state of distortion, there isn’t much time to get to know our protagonist because bitknot is missing quieter tracks like “Paces” and “Station” from Girl with Fish that ... read more

None of the re-recordings outright hurt the tracks but often help the record’s flow, especially the back half of this record fixing the Unforgiving Girl weak section of the old. Though I really miss Not What I Needed because I think it is essential to Teens of Denial’s dna. All in all, the changes might be enough to move the record from an 85 to a 90. Worth it? Well that’s up to you I guess.

This record makes me so happy and excited for where Ninush goes with a full record!

I love coasting along with this record’s dream, but sometimes wish a couple songs had a stronger central rhythm.

Wuthering Heights begins on a strong foot with the noisy cries on House sounding like Radiohead’s Climbing Up the Walls and continues it’s momentum with Charli carving out new ground on Wall of Sound and with her creating an absolute banger on Chains of Love. Any time Charli dives into these really distorted atmospheres on Wuthering Heights, an eerie pain is conveyed which is really palpable. I only wish the album dived more into this noise instead of veering into safer territory in ... read more

I love how authentic CMAT is both in her production and lyrics.

Bleeds sounds like the small spec of dirt town that I used to go school in forever ago; the twang complements its grunge with a loneliness so perfectly beautiful.

Kid A holds a weight through most of its runtime that feels like being a surrealistic nightmare, though by track nine I am usually drawn out of the illusion.

The psychedelics of the drums splashing through the mix do a lot to make these songs ear candy

When the fourth and fifth tracks on an album shift the trajectory of the indie scene while also nearly two decades later inspire you to produce introspective music.

Un-Insides is so experimental in its musical pallet, production, and expression of the human experience that it broke new ground which musicians continually come back to nearly a decade later. I can best describe Un-Insides as being industrial hyper-pop, two genres I didn’t know fit together until hearing the record’s production mastery. Un-Insides is the Remain in Light of the last two decades.

Geese Getting Killed is my record of 2025. The effects of this record started all the way back in February when I finally discovered that Heavy Metal was written by Geese frontman Cameron Winter, a record so fantastically written that it not only proved that Winter had Sufjan levels of musical talent but also that Geese was only getting started on 3D Country. Then Getting Killed released.

Getting Killed is not a normal record. It sounds like no other record that I have heard in a way that has ... read more

The Rolling Stones review for this one is cold blooded

I think that in a genre so akin to portray quite depression hidden in metropolitan life it is important for Black Midi to instead portray screaming at it in an epic fantasy where these dark themes are turned into mountainous characters.

Let me change my words
Show me where it hurts

Treat me right, I'm still a good man's daughter
Let me in if I break and be quiet if I shatter

Fell so hard like I always do
I'm so scared of being alone
It's true, it's true

And at night I just lay down and cry
The waters don't really go by me
Give me something I can see
Something bigger and louder than the voices in me
Something to believe

The meaning of life doesn't seem to shine like that screen

Yes, we ... read more

When I saw that Dove Ellis, the opener to the Geese Getting Killed show I attended at White Oak Music Hall, released his debut, Blizzard, I was intrigued.

Blizzard is bursting with potential with the first few tracks, especially on Love Is, but overall sounds too washed out as the instrumentation doesn’t swell enough to escape behind Dove’s vocals. The tracks would have aided with the use of more driven drumming or from Dove’s excellent chorus-reverby guitar playing that he ... read more

Dragon New Warmth is the record that has grown on me the most throughout these three years, one with biting lyrics, distorted performances, and a few of the best tracks written this decade.

Dear Rolling Stone,
Thank you for taking a payout at the cost of completely ruining your reputation by giving Taylor’s last two fumbles a 10/10.
Sincerely, TTTTripper

A Moon Shaped Pool has aged like fine wine, and yes, besides Tinker Tailer Soldier, is Radiohead’s fourth Magnum opus.