Dirty Projectors - Swing Lo Magellan (Domino) A release designed to please big fans and baffle outsiders | 9/5/2012
tUnE-yArDs' jagged pop smarts 'Do you want to live!?' Merrill Garbus wants to know. | 8/1/2012
Dark star Ira, Georgia and James keep their secrets | 6/27/2012
Gossip - A Joyful Noise (Columbia) A tired document of a clearly talented band reluctant to cut loose | 6/13/2012
Dent May - Do Things (Paw Tracks) A guaranteed good time with more than one direct hit | 6/13/2012
Advance Base - A Shut-In's Prayer (Orindal Records) Owen Ashworth’s exquisite, haunting new record trades in estrangement | 5/16/2012
Crank Wet-palmed reviews for the easily distracted! | 5/9/2012
Cynic's New Year - Horse Feathers (Kill Rock Stars) The group’s dark, tattered and immersive folk-rock deepens in nuance | 4/18/2012
Spiritualized - Sweet Heart, Sweet Light (Fat Possum) Blissful new offering provides glam-rock histrionics and fake drinking songs | 4/18/2012
M. Ward - A Wasteland Companion (Merge) Affable pop singer-songwriter’s new release somewhat burdened by cutesy schtick | 4/11/2012
Last man standing The Shins' James Mercer gathers new bandmates and sinks to new lows on major-label debut | 4/5/2012
Great Lakes Swimmers - New Wild Everywhere (Nettwerk) Toronto folkie Tony Dekker’s beloved project comes out of the studio with something spectacularly dull | 4/4/2012
The Shins - Point of Morrow (Aural Apothecary/Columbia) Shins’ late-coming major label debut. A five-year wait for a rehash fest? Yup! | 3/21/2012
Andrew Bird - Break It Yourself (Mom and Pop Music) Detroit quartet releases new EP of agitgroove | 3/14/2012
The Magnetic Fields - Love at the Bottom of the Sea (Merge) You’ll roll your eyes at toy pianos and mariachi cheese, but Stephin Merritt’s craft still charms | 3/7/2012
Terry Malts - Killing Time (Slumberland) Punk rock’s endearingly honest middle age | 3/7/2012
Chairlift - Something (Columbia) Shapeless dreampop or empty stylistics? | 2/8/2012
Leonard Cohen - Old Ideas (Columbia) The usual hushed, spiritual material, though he seems to be holding back | 2/8/2012
Nathan Phillips Nathan's top 10 albums and tracks of 2011 | 1/4/2012
Crank Reviews for the easily distracted | 12/7/2011
Crank Reviews for the slippery palmed! | 11/30/2011
Björk - Biophilia (Nonesuch) The breadth and outlandishness of Björk's multimedia project Biophilia makes it easy to forget that it's really just a collection of songs — ten adventurous, multilayered new one by an artist for whom those attributes are status quo. Like her prior full-len | 10/12/2011
Feist - Metals (Interscope) Leslie Feist's unexpected march to the pop charts with 2007's The Reminder seems to have sent her running for cover. Her contrarian third album tones down the hooks in favor of a series of ponderous mood pieces, preoccupied with spaciousness and unison. Ope | 10/12/2011
PAPA - A Good Woman Is Hard to Find (Hit City U.S.A.) We seldom hear the electrified navelgaze of American alt-rock described as "elegant," but there's no better description for the often beautiful debut EP from this California trio. It's little wonder that PAPA is an offshoot of Girls; they share that band's | 10/12/2011
Wilco - The Whole Love (Anti) After nine years of fat-and-happy records, a disorienting successor | 9/28/2011
Das Racist - Relax (Greedhead) If you dug the mixtapes, you’ll love the progress on this debut disc | 9/21/2011
Mates of State - Mountain Tops (Barsuk) If you thought the Cars could get annoying … | 9/21/2011
Kanye West, Jay-Z, the Throne - Watch the Throne (Def Jam) Hotly anticipated collaboration sidesteps grandiosity and showboating | 8/17/2011
Highway call Thomas Dybdahl's songs beautifully romanticize open-sky Americana | 7/20/2011
Sam Roberts - Collider Meandering Montreal rocker Sam Roberts' dad rock aches with in-denial loss | 5/11/2011
Kinks - Kinks, Kinda Kinks, The Kinks Kontroversy Kinks reissues showcase the boys' deep understanding of the black American music | 5/4/2011
TV on the Radio - Nine Types of Light Brooklyn's finest releases its riskiest work to date. | 5/4/2011
Times New Viking - Dancer Equired Fifth studio album to be recorded in actual studio! | 4/27/2011
The Chemical Brothers - Hanna Original Soundtrack Not the perfect movie music, but a sigh of relief for CB fans | 4/20/2011
Los Lonely Boys - Rockpango Confusing detour has the 'Heaven' brothers backed with screaming guitars | 4/6/2011
The Strokes - Angles New release parties like it's 1982 | 3/30/2011
The Mountain Goats - All Eternals Deck John Darnielle's quivering eccentricity gets another workout | 3/30/2011
Wye Oak - Civilian This Baltimore duo's third album is straightforward, not slick | 3/16/2011
Over the Rhine - Long Surrender With new release, Ohio's Over the Rhine earns the right to relax a bit | 3/16/2011
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie "xx" - We're New Here Something old, something new, something borrowed | 3/9/2011
Cut Copy - Zonoscope Plundering the 1980s to create a timeless, arm-waving euphoria | 3/9/2011
The Dears - Degeneration Street New release taps into an interesting reboot, openly flirting with pop | 2/23/2011
Radiohead - The King of Limbs The verdict on the band's layered, sensual eighth album | 2/23/2011
Gang of Four - Content First album in 16 years should please all the old fans | 2/9/2011
Teddy Thompson - Bella Verve release takes a stunning country-pop talent and makes him song-factory generic | 2/9/2011
Tennis - Cape Dory Colorado husband-and-wife team sing about spending a year sailing? Yes they do. | 2/2/2011
Iron & Wine - Kiss Each Other Clean A new release readymade for teen drama cues and moody car ads | 2/2/2011
Deerhoof - Vs. Evil San Francisco noise rockers edge ever closer to mainstream acceptance | 1/26/2011
The Decemberists - The King Is Dead Quaintly traditionalist combo tones down the geeky sneer | 1/26/2011
Wanda Jackson - The Party Ain't Over Jack White takes on Wanda Jackson - and the results are in | 1/19/2011
Lubec - Nothing is Enough Richmond quartet's impossibly pretty soundscapes | 1/12/2011
Wire - Red Barked Tree No matter which Wire albums you liked, there's a track or two for you here | 1/12/2011
Black sheep squadron Jack White's latest discovery: A psyche-folk-pop Detroit two-piece with a penchant for the Ukraine | 1/5/2011
Mickey Leigh & Legs McNeil - I Slept with Joey Ramone Mickey Leigh's memoir about his brother Joey supplies an elegant punk origin story | 12/22/2010
Michael Heatley & Frank Hopkinson - The Girl in the Song Book documents 50 pop songs inspired by women | 12/15/2010
Dean Fertita - Hello=Fire In which an earnest sense of wonder offsets often-overwrought songwriting | 12/15/2010

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