Dethklok Dethalbum III (Williams Street Records) For those not familiar with Dethklok, they are the heavy metal alter ego to the band […]

With their new album Long Slow Dance, the fourth studio album in just as many years, The Fresh and Onlys embark on […]

The Mountain Goats Transcendental Youth  (Merge Records) The Mountain Goats create deeply unsettling, personal music. Listening to an album is delving into […]

James Yorkston I Was A Cat From A Book (Domino Recording Co.) The first noticeable thing about Yorkston’s seventh album is that […]

Baroness Yellow & Green (Relapse) Baroness keeps their heavy metal guitar sound and adds the more carefully plotted-out harmonies of actual singing. […]

John Frusciante PBX Funicular Intaglio Zone (Record Collection) Don’t expect anything from John Frusciante that makes sense on PBX. This former Red […]

Safety Not Guaranteed Original Motion Picture Soundtrack Various Artists (Abko Music & Records, Inc.)  Full disclosure: I was really looking forward to […]

Gabby Young & Other Animals The Band Called Out for More (Gift of the Gab Records) On The Band Called Out for More (henceforth […]

Matthew Dear Beams (Ghostly International) “Fighting is Futile” promises and implores the listener to “take a trip on something else.” As with […]

Nelly Furtado The Spirit Indestructible (Interscope) Oh, Nelly Furtado. The expectations that were created after Loose, a phenomenal album that matched Timbaland production with Spanish […]