It’s probably a sign of my increasing cynicism that my automatic reaction to Grimes’ newfound success was dubious suspicion.
By Sam Goldner
Album review
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The Red Hot Chili Peppers sound a little lost in the beginning of the first album they’ve produced in more than five years.
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Panic’s back with signature beats in the form of lead singer Brendon Urie and drummer Spencer Smith, in a record ready to enchant us once again.
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In what seems to be an attempt to go more mainstream, Iron and Wine plays with a different and less-than-impressive sound on its new album.
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Just by looking at the cover of Deerhunter’s “Halcyon Digest,” listeners can tell that they will be taken on a weird and wonderful journey. Thirty seconds into the album, they’ll know that they’re right.
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Inexplicably named after everyone’s favorite hefty Lost character, Rivers Cuomo and the gang are back with “Hurley.”
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Imagine a world in which contemporary R&B/Soul music wasn’t funneled through an Auto-Tune machine while chanting the same contrived messages of causing alcohol-induced mayhem in a godforsaken club.
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After Sufjan Stevens released his critically-acclaimed 2005 masterpiece “Illinois,” listeners have been waiting for more content. The wait is over.
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Expressions of existential woe usually leave a listener frustrated as poorly executed hooks share melancholy in a way that is both methodical and messy.
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While most students spend the summer on vacation without easy access to new tunes, there are…