New Reviews for May 17, 2024
Touch & Go
Chicago's math rock titans dish out ten bangers in 28 minutes in a fitting yet unexpected finale to their career.
RCA / Wolf & Rothstein
This revamped version of 3.15.2020 sports a new mix, a shuffled track list, and all the daring and unpredictable brilliance of the original.
Domino
The singer/songwriter returns from a long hiatus with gorgeously weathered songs that explore aging with resolute honesty.
RCA
Frontman Matt Shultz exorcises personal demons as his band plays an alluring alt-rock pastiche.
Polyvinyl
Set against a move from Georgia to Vermont, the project's shape-shifting 19th studio outing tends to favor its sexier, sassier, funkier proclivities.
Hail Mary Productions / Virgin
A bright, lively, and fresh spin on classic rock from the actress turned singer.
Mono Mundo Recordings
Flashes of their retro-pop past and Latin-infused present mix on a great album from these roots country veterans.
Cultco Music / Hollywood
Boosted by orchestral backing, the Rochester indie crew scale back on concept and get creative on yet another addictive set.
In Memoriam
Editors' Choice for April, 2024
AllMusic Staff Pick
- May 22, 2024
May 13, 2008
This sample-based album from Joel Martin and Matt Edwards plucks from numerous forms of marginalia, whether obscure, loathed by the stereotypical record store clerk, or loved by legions of geeks who were dealt wedgies in high school by Van Halen-loving jocks: prog rock and yacht rock punch lines, new age pin cushions, unhip singer/songwriters, largely unknown Italian film-music composers, and several others. It is, for lack of better categorization, a chillout album, even though it is just as much a creep-out, its most tranquil scenes seemingly on the verge of being washed away by a sudden ecological catastrophe.
