CIGARETTES AFTER SEX usher in a summer of slow pop lust with X’S
X's, the third album from Texan quartet Cigarettes After Sex arrives just in time for a summer of lust and slow pop.
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Let’s Walk: the honey-voiced MADELEINE PEYROUX’s new album
While honey-voiced jazz-folk singer Madeleine Peyroux is known for Tom Waits and Steely Dan cover versions, this is an album of originals.
MDOU MOCTAR’s FUNERAL FOR JUSTICE: a transcendent fusion of Tuareg and Western rock
Though Niger guitarist Mdou Moctar claimed he had no grounding in rock music, there’s a case for him playing it as excitingly as any contemporary outfit on Funeral For Justice.
Pennsylvanian punks PISSED JEANS embrace the absurdities of modern life
The potentially crushing existential dread of middle age and a nihilistic worldview are subjects for attack for Pissed Jeans on Half-Divorced.
Serious music for serious times: CHELSEA WOLFE’s gothic meditations on SHE REACHES OUT TO SHE
Dive into Chelsea Wolfe's haunting vocals and dense gothic compositions in She Reaches Out To She.
Shimmering with confidence, THE NEW PORNOGRAPHERS are still innovating after two decades on ninth album
The New Pornographers' ninth album Continue As A Guest oozes confidence and subtle swagger, even 20 years into their career.
ALGIERS return with fiercely powerful politics, plus a smorgasbord of great guests
Each performance on Shook is incredibly well-executed, while feeling like natural progressions from the intriguing soul-punk of Algiers’ past works.