We Were Promised Jetpacks: Unraveling
How many times can you challenge your audience to join you at the top of the room before these big moves become big tropes?
Geoff Nelson
The Rural Alberta Advantage: Mended With Gold
On third LP, Mended With Gold, the band pursues escape velocity with the most commitment yet, making the most bombastic and polished arrangements of their career.
Thom Yorke: Tomorrow’s Modern Boxes
Tomorrow's Modern Boxes isn't about any new technology, even with its faux-edgy release through bittorrent; it's about the old question about the power and limitations of our human containers.
Alt-J: This Is All Yours
The contradiction of all second records but especially this one: Be what people expect when people want something unexpected.
Wildcat! Wildcat!: No Moon at All
The hooks are here, even when the lyrics aren't: a pleasant night drive to absolutely nowhere.
Clap Your Hands Say Yeah: Only Run
Only Run, both in form and function, is CYHSY's return to relevance, excellence even, and one of the best independent rock records of 2014.
Future Islands: Singles
The layperson finally arrived to Future Islands, the question was: What would they find here on the beach of the band's new fame?
Thumpers: Galore
For a moment, the darkness holds at bay and the band colors their world with tropical guitars and chanting vocals, a type of brief bulwark against cold, linear modernity.