Beach House’s latest offering, Bloom, is officially out on Sub Pop, and the band continues to build on the more polished atmosphere of their previous album, Teen Dream. Victoria Legrand and Alex Scally are continuing to reinvent the arpeggio and dream pop vocal melodies with songs that all take after the title of the album;
It’s fall—the leaves are changing, the weather is sucking, and Real Estate’s latest LP, Days, is in your car’s CD player, or at least it should be. The five-piece hailing from New Jersey made a name for itself in 2009, when it released its self-titled debut, coining itself in the surf rock genre with track
I was sitting in front of my new laptop today lamenting the death of Punk Rock…again. Punk has lived and died more times in the past twenty years than Paul McCartney during the Abbey Road years. Then I listened to the new Indians album and saw a minor resurgence on the horizon. Their self-titled debut
Riding on the coattails of a well-received debut album, the New York-based trio Elizabeth and the Catapult is back with its sophomore effort, The Other Side of Zero. Where Brooklyn-bred songstress Elizabeth Ziman and her band’s first album Taller Children comprised cheery, light-hearted songs, the second features darker, tongue-in-cheek tracks sung from the perspective of
When I heard that MGMT was releasing a new album, a sequence of memories suddenly flashed before my eyes. Memories of house parties in the summer, when someone would play “Kids” and send the whole lot of us bouncing off the walls and loudly singing lyrics that none of us would ever really get. I