EDITORS GET INTIMATE ON ‘SURFACE, ECHO & SOUND’
One of the first things you hear on the new album by Editors, "Surface, Echo & Sound," is a deep breath. As the opener, also the title track, unfolds, it remains relatively unadorned: Tom Smith's...
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TRIBUTE BRINGS OUT THE BLUES IN THE GRATEFUL DEAD
The diversity and malleability of the music of the Grateful Dead have long made it ripe for tribute albums of all stripes, from bluegrass to rock to jazz to a cappella takes on a catalog that has bee...
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ROLLING STONES ARE GLORIOUSLY PREDICTABLE WITH ‘FOREIGN TONGUES’
That the Rolling Stones are still above ground is a blessing. That they are still making good music is a minor miracle. On "Foreign Tongues," their 27th studio album, the band is in top form as they ...
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DEATH CAB STARES INTO THE DARK ON ‘I BUILT YOU A TOWER’
There was a time when Death Cab For Cutie was gazing wide-eyed at the future, playing its signature introspective post-punk indie rock with a game-for-anything approach, culminating in a string of son...
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FOR TEDESCHI TRUCKS BAND, THE FUTURE IS NOW
Six albums into their career, the Tedeschi Trucks Band is really good at being the Tedeschi Trucks Band. That might sound like a throwaway statement, but when being the Tedeschi Trucks Band requires b...
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THE NUDE PARTY MASTER COUNTRY ROCK AND GLAM INFLUENCES ON FOURTH LP
At the end of The Nude Party's fourth album, our hero finds himself doing a two-year stint in prison after getting busted at the border with a trunk full of Acapulco Gold. But in "Jaurez," the Tex-Mex...
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SEAROWS SAILS THE OCEANS TO FIND HIMSELF
“Death in the Business of Whaling,” the second album from Searows, is a work of emotional, lyrical and musical depth that deploys seafaring imagery to trawl for broader truths. Portland, Oregon’s A...
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THE ANTLERS MOURN A DYING PLANET ON ‘BLIGHT’
More than 15 years since The Antlers followed the journey of a hospital worker and a dying patient on "Hospice," Peter Silberman has mined an equally grim vein for the band's seventh record, "Blight":...
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ARCADE FIRE GOES SMALL WITH BIG RESULTS ON ‘PINK ELEPHANT’
It had been since 2013’s “Reflektor” that Arcade Fire recorded an album with no skippable tracks -- “Everything Now” was mostly forgettable, and “We,” from 2022, came close but was done in by some plo...
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DR DOG’S REFOCUSED REBOOT WAS WORTH THE WAIT
When an artist self-titles an album deep into its career, it can be a signal of a comeback or a new direction, a blunt notice that no matter what has come before, this piece of work is representative ...
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