Review: The Avalanches – Wildflower (XL Recordings)
"It is an audaciously cinematic soundtrack fitting nothing in particular; but its sweeping synaesthetic kaleidoscopes can crop up your deepest, unrealest teenage dream-memories." Harry Manson reviews Wildflower, The Avalanches' first…
Review: Parquet Courts – Human Performance (Rough Trade)
"In finally cleaning up and colourising their previously dry sepia sound, the instrumental sounds and cues occasionally become so directly referential to very particular music that it starts feeling like…
Review: The Life of Pablo
For most of us, that part-fabricated, all-celebrity iconic soup marinates his entire identity, and unfortunately for The Life of Pablo, any alternative interpretation you could try scooping out of his…
Vale, David Bowie: You Changed Us
David Bowie’s role in music was one of the weightiest to ever come careening into western culture as we know it today. His death, concluding a concealed 18-month battle with…
Pelican’s Albums of the Year
It’s not quite the end of the year, but it is the end of the Pelican year, so I thought I would get Peli’s music writer community to give us…
Living Vicariously Through the Aux Cord: 4 Simple Steps
It’s finally here: the day of your big party, and the monumental playlist is nearly complete. Or hey, maybe it’s someone else’s big party, and the perfect moment to show…
Mac Demarco – Another One (Captured Tracks)
For all the ways Another One is a simple, polished little edible derived straight from countless artists before him, Mac Demarco’s whole thing as a popstar who’s the sum of…