Expectations for David Lynch’s first album revolve around two reference points. The most glaring is to his idiosyncratic work as a filmmaker. It is
Cast your mind back to the early and mid-’90s. You may recall a specific revolution in electronic ambient music. Artists like Aphex Twin, Orbital and
This EP is excellently done, and every song except the title track is a wonderful, drone and glitch-filled pop delight. Delicate and graceful melodies
As an obsessive music collector, Lavis Blake hits two of my pet preoccupations: differentiating types of non-singing, and bands whose output ends up on
After a rising loop the record begins: “Yo it’s therapy, most of us that I know got problems / Why you think we frowning
In surveying jangle-pop albums, calling an album great makes allowance for more uninspired tracks than on most other genre releases. Like early ‘50s rock
We go back in time for this lost gem. Its sounds are vaguely recognizable as pop, but as the kind of pop somehow reconfigured
The recent trends in psychedelia gravitate more toward the sprawling trebly end of things, beds of sound instead of pointed guitar attacks. This can
What makes a piece of art good? What makes a piece of art useful? I would maintain that the major component is in the
Nostalgia, always a component in hip hop’s later fare, has taken a new flavor of late. Nostalgia in ‘90s hip hop was largely reactionary,
