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.
Firebird Music / Gibson
A star-studded blues album from the Guns N' Roses guitar slinger.
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.
BMG / BMG Rights Management
The boy band veterans play to their strengths without succumbing to nostalgia.
Hail Mary Productions / Virgin
A bright, lively, and fresh spin on classic rock from the actress turned singer.
In Memoriam
In Memoriam
Editors' Choice for April, 2024
AllMusic Staff Pick
- May 23, 2024
1967
"It's a young thing -- and it's a different thing!" -- so proclaimed the back cover of the handsome gatefold jacket on the Free Design's debut album, in words that couldn't have dissuaded more people under 30 from buying the album if the makers had tried. And that's a crying shame, because Kites Are Fun was a glorious product of the same zeitgeist that yielded the Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band album and a dozen other triumphant pop-psychedelic albums.
