New Reviews for March 29, 2024

Cowboy CarterEditor's choice
Columbia / Parkwood Entertainment
The country-influenced second act in the reclamation trilogy brings history, famous friends, and family legacy together for an impressive statement.
- Neil Z. Yeung
Evolution
Valory
A bright, cheerful revival of the poppier aspects of the 2023 inductee to the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame.
- Stephen Thomas Erlewine
GripEditor's choice
Secretly Canadian
R&B
The singer/songwriter's breezy, tender third album explores the powerful physical and emotional hold of new love within the gay Black club scene.
- Heather Phares
Heaven :x: HellEditor's choice
Rise Records
The eighth and final album from the Canadian crew merges their pop-punk and metal-leaning sides onto a sprawling double LP.
- Neil Z. Yeung
Interplay
Wichita / Wichita Recordings
The seventh album from these shoegaze giants (and third since reuniting) explores synth pop, spacy electronics, and other territory new to them.
- Fred Thomas
Hey Panda
Drag City
Adding R&B and pop flourishes while stripping the long-established sound of the group down to the studs, the album is a low-key, late-career triumph.
- Tim Sendra
Switched On, Vols. 1-5Editor's choice
Duophonic / Warp
A comprehensive box set of the band's singles and rarities collections that completes their fascinating, innovative body of work.
- Heather Phares
Echo Dancing
Yep Roc
One of America's great songwriters re-records 14 songs from his back catalog in radical, lo-fi electronic form.
- Mark Deming
Remembered
AllMusic Staff Pick - April 2, 2024
October 7, 2003
Former Mule frontman P.W. Long has made a career of playing the whiskey-soaked loser, leading his ever-changing cast of backing musicians through swampy, bluesy, sad-sack songs involving drinkin', leavin', sinnin', and stays in the county jail. On the 2003 Touch and Go release Remembered, these themes resurface with Long's familiar growl and biting guitar stomp.
- Zac Johnson