New Reviews for June 28, 2024

LoomEditor's choice
Interscope / Kid ina Korner
The Vegas crew's seventh set returns them to bombastic anthem territory after a period of introspection on their previous LP.
- Neil Z. Yeung
Valley of Abandoned SongsEditor's choice
15 Passenger / Million Stars
A surprisingly cohesive, poetic, lyrically tight album of characteristically ragged indie folk from the Upstate New Yorkers.
- James Wilkinson
Love Heart Cheat CodeEditor's choice
Brainfeeder
R&B
Joy, optimism, and otherness fill the fourth album by Australia's premier hardcore avant-soul/jazz/funk/hip-hop band.
- Andy Kellman
Redd KrossEditor's choice
In the Red Records
The power pop-meets-hard rock legends celebrate their longevity with the angriest, hookiest, and most intense album of their career.
- Tim Sendra
Strut of Kings
GBV
Robert Pollard indulges his love of prog rock and makes it exciting as his band continues their streak of top-notch LPs.
- Mark Deming
Let's Walk
Just One Records / Orchard
For the first time in her career, the iconic singer writes her own songs, that meld of jazz, gospel, folk, and jump blues.
- Thom Jurek
Love Changes EverythingEditor's choice
Drag City
The windswept and emotionally driven Australian instrumental trio pick up as if no time has passed on their first new album in ten years.
- Fred Thomas
Notes from a Quiet Life
Sub Pop
The second album in a row of chillwave throwbacks from one of the sound's originators.
- Tim Sendra
Mississauga Goddam
AllMusic Staff Pick - July 2, 2024
October 12, 2004
Joel Gibb's clever observations on life, love, and gay culture are just as naughty and scene-stealing as they were on 2003's Smell of Our Own, but there's a newfound sense of poignancy that overrides much of Mississauga's patchwork nihilism.
- Timothy Monger