Reviews

Review: Pet Shop Boys – Elysium

September 18th, 2012

Pet Shop Boys’ eleventh studio album sounds like…well, a Pet Shop Boys album. Is that intro enough for you? Let’s .

September 18th, 2012

In a year that has already brought fine new albums from fellow reliable old hands Lambchop and Tindersticks, Calexico make .

September 17th, 2012

This debut album from Oslo trio Philco Fiction arrives just in time to to keep you warm this winter with .

September 17th, 2012

First things first, and barring something truly remarkable, 2012 has its finest album title. Gold star for that alone. Anyway, .

September 17th, 2012

The Beaverton, Oregon duo’s fifth album may very well be the finest this year to give a co-production credit to .

September 17th, 2012

The Richmond, Virginia singer-songwriter plays unsurprisingly to her strengths on this, her eighth studio album; and why not? They are .

September 11th, 2012

Blackalicious’s 1994 EP is as masterful an opening gambit as Rocksucker has heard, so the chance to blather superlatives about .

September 11th, 2012

Gift of Gab’s third solo LP continues in a similarly laid-back and perspective-bound vein to its predecessors, 2004’a 4th Dimensional Rocketships .

September 10th, 2012

A mere thirteen years on from their fondly remembered debut album Everything Picture, Ultrasound deliver a second LP’s worth of high-drama, .

September 10th, 2012

One could forever analyze the inter-band relationships within Dinosaur Jr., and still the band’s continued existence would remain a mystery. .