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
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
I Am Toward You
Sargent House
Shaped by memories and meditation, the project's sixth album boasts some of its most direct songwriting and emotive use of noise.
- Heather Phares
Time Travel
AllMusic Staff Pick - May 13, 2024
October 19, 2018
On his pleasingly minimalist solo debut, Canadian singer/songwriter Graham Van Pelt uses little more than the sequencer of his vintage Roland SH-101 synth to build a warm little house around his musings on aging, friendships, and matters of the heart.
- Timothy Monger