New Reviews for May 10, 2024

Can We Please Have FunEditor's choice
Capitol / Lovetap
An artful, emotionally resonant ninth album that finds the Nashville band recapturing the playful, post-punk energy of their early work.
- Matt Collar
Death JokesEditor's choice
Sub Pop
Damon McMahon's dense, challenging critique of American culture's need to conform is equal parts timely and timeless.
- Heather Phares
Morning View XXIII
Incubus / Virgin
A "20th" anniversary re-recording of their seminal 2001 album that adds layers of experience and age to the biggest record in their catalog.
- Neil Z. Yeung
Hopes and Fears [20th Anniversary Edition]
Interscope / Island / UMR
The band's openhearted, ambitious debut album -- presented here with extras -- stands as a classic of the post-Coldplay era.
- Tim Sendra
The Moon Is in the Wrong Place
Concord / Easy Eye Sound
Shannon Shaw and her retro-rocking bandmates contemplate loss while aiming for a bigger and more colorful sound.
- Mark Deming
Poetry
Fat Possum Records
Minimalistic Chicago indie trio grows sharper, smarter, and stranger on a set of songs that's adventurous and immaculately produced.
- Fred Thomas
Nell' Ora BluEditor's choice
Rise Above Records
The band blow up their proto-metal template to create an imaginary soundtrack that pays tribute to Italian cinema of the '70s.
- Tim Sendra
Cape Forestier
Nettwerk
Balancing rustic and more reverb-heavy indie folk and '60s and '70s pop, the duo's relatively stripped-back fifth album is an affectionate one.
- Marcy Donelson
You Will Never Be One of Us
AllMusic Staff Pick - May 16, 2024
June 17, 2016
A vital and unrelenting set of high-caliber hardcore ragers that celebrate the worst that humanity has to offer. The band's devotion to unadulterated sonic malevolence remains unchanged. They know that the darkest corners of the human psyche have deep closets, and they would like to show you what's in them.
- James Monger