Rina Sawayama’s Sophomore Album Hold The Girl Pushes The Limits of Pop Music, But Still Feels Safe
When I heard Rina Sawayama purr “Let’s go, Gaga” on her remix of the Chromatica cut “Free Woman,’ I swearContinue Reading
Author: Andy Steiner
Marlon Williams’ My Boy is a Loose Collection of 70s Fragments
On the cover of his third solo album My Boy, Marlon Williams looks like he’s dressed for gym class inContinue Reading
On Ugly Season, Perfume Genius Is More Abstract Than Ever
In an Apple Music interview about his fifth album Set My Heart On Fire Immediately, Perfume Genius—aka Mike Hadreas—shared hisContinue Reading
King Gizzard Bring the Best of their Mosaic Discography on Omnium Gatherum
The idea of a King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard double album is already redundant. As far back as TheContinue Reading
Q&A: wens’ New EP alien tears is an extra-terrestrial inspired Triumph
Last week, Los Angeles-based singer-songwriter wens released her fourth EP, the sparsely orchestrated alien tears. Featuring singles “4ever” and “breakfastContinue Reading
Wet Leg’s Highly Anticipated Debut Album Is Absurd, Funny, and Disarming
Thank god the album’s name is “Wet Leg.” Picture the same body of work, the same album cover, but withContinue Reading
Christian Lee Hutson’s Quitters Process 21st Century Overload In Real Time
David Byrne makes a thoughtful argument in the first few pages of his book How Music Works: trends in popularContinue Reading
On Fifth Studio Album, Charli XCX Stages The Perfect ‘Crash’
The old Charli XCX can’t come to the phone right now…or so the eight-month press cycle preceding her fifth albumContinue Reading
Nilüfer Yanya Tackles Feeling on Sophomore Album PAINLESS
Nilüfer Yanya is fascinated with pain. The title to her 2018 EP asks the question that seems to be atContinue Reading
LÉON’s Third Album Circles Takes A Different Approach to The Pop Music Of Her Peers
It’s hard not to contextualize LÉON, an emerging Swedish pop artist, from the dynasty of Swedish divas that have precededContinue Reading
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