Editors The Weight of Your Love (PIAS) I have anger. Subdued, boiling rage. Just really about to lose it. But I’m calm […]

Dear Reader Rivonia (City Slang) With a flourish and fanatic devotion, Dear Reader is an intimate epistle, an album with unwavering love […]

BOAT Pretend to Be Brave (Magic Marker Records) The band BOAT is a band that rewards long time fandom with payoff. In […]

She & Him  Volume 3 (Merge Records) There are many things about She & Him that contribute to a dismiss of novelty. […]

Cara Samantha is determined to be successful and is unafraid to make cheesy music if behind the cheese the music is still […]

Young Man Beyond Was All Around Me (BMG) Every now and then a record comes along that blends genres. It has a […]

Starfucker Miracle Mile (Polyvinyl Records) The album opens with a chorus of woos in front of a thumping bass. It progresses through […]

Little Wings Last (RAD) There are the cliched musicians. People evoke certain images to complete what they think a musician should look […]

Kate Nash Girl Talk (Have 10p Records) “And it doesn’t matter, how much I tell myself, I still feel the same/And it […]

Indians Somewhere Else (4AD) Bands with imagination make music that seems sprawling and bigger than human possibility. Indians has that promise of […]