Album Review: Olivia Rodrigo - SOUR
“Olivia Rodrigo deserves her share of accolades for putting together such an enjoyable product on her first attempt, even if the nature of that quality calls into question whether the singer herself will be able to carve out a niche alongside the titans of pop music she is profoundly indebted to.”
Take Me to Your Leader: MF DOOM’s Overlooked Masterpiece
In an unrivaled catalogue of legendary albums, DOOM’s strangest release is also his most criminally underrated.
AT STATE’S END: The Return of Godspeed You! Black Emperor
“G_d’s Pee AT STATE’S END! is not a reinvention, either for Godspeed or for the genre of post-rock as a whole, but their confidence in our ability to rescue the world from our own sins is enough reason to separate this album from its legacy and commend it for its own creativity and vision.”
The Empty Grief of WandaVision
The show tries its best to depict the crippling pain of loss, but ends up without much to show for its efforts.
Album Review: Black Dresses - Forever In Your Heart
“Ada Rook and Devi McCallion continue to refine their talents with each new project, yet the intrinsic limitations of their preferred sound remain a constant impediment; for as many compelling themes as this record can boast of, too many are drowned in a miasma of electronic noise that only sometimes complements the band’s appreciable affinity for pathos. Even at its best, Forever In Your Heart asks too much of the listener to truly capture the greatness it is constantly hinting at, but in the entirety of the group’s turbulent existence, said greatness had never seemed more inevitable.”
Album Review: Black Country, New Road - For the first time
“When a work of art as anomalous as this appears out of nowhere, our instinctive response is to retreat into the realm of what is familiar, trying to make sense of the new using what we already know and understand. For the first time challenges with its very existence the validity of that approach, asking the listener to trust that something that appears utterly alien can simultaneously offer both immediate enjoyment and a staggering depth for those who wish to venture further into unknown territory.”
That’s That: The Legacy of MF DOOM
“There’s a reason people often refer to DOOM as “your favourite rapper’s favourite rapper”; not only would one be hard-pressed to find a distinguished modern hip hop artist that wasn’t directly influenced by the work of Daniel Dumile, but the masked MC was a master of his craft in the most technical sense, the kind of rapper whose flows and punchlines only get more and more impressive the deeper one’s appreciation of the artform gets.”