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Album Review: Tegan and Sara ‘Heartthrob’

The sisters Quin have seemed to struggle to find the right balance between cutesy pop and emotional indie. Their latest volley is a lot like 2009’s Sainthood, but punchier and perhaps a bit more confident. They have been engaged in this balancing act for well over a decade now, and with their seventh studio album

Album Review: Atoms for Peace ‘AMOK’

Thom Yorke is a genius, or maybe just a bit odd. Not quite as odd as he looks, but odd enough to consistently surprise with the musical decisions he makes. About the only thing you can be sure of going into a new release– no matter what band he is playing with– is that your

Album Review: Green Day ‘¡Tre!’

If we’re being honest, the first two installments in Green Day’s back-to-basics trilogy, ¡Uno! and ¡Dos!, did not differentiate themselves enough to warrant the ambition of the band in releasing their music this way. ¡Tre! is where they absolutely have to prove that three albums were necessary, to make up for the heaps of filler

Album Review: Scott Walker ‘Bish Bosch’

Scott Walker has been making great music since the 1960s, but the similarities between his early work as a part of the Walker Brothers and the noise experiments he has crafted over the past couple of decades are almost none. Listeners who felt alienated by Radiohead’s transition from Pablo Honey to The King of Limbs

Album Review: Pitbull ‘Global Warming’

Calling an album like this Global Warming is like a statement of intent, either to destroy the world of pop music or– more likely– to heat things up a few kelvins on the dancefloor. It’s certainly not going to be an environmentally conscious album, because with an artist like Pitbull you kind of know what

Album Review: Ke$ha ‘Warrior’

Ke$ha is an interesting animal. She exists somewhere on the periphery of both terrible and great music, having already proven she is very capable of serving up either when she feels like it. For the most part, she seems to approach music in much the same way as she does life: by getting drunk and