Lifeguard Are Ready-Made for Critical Adoration
Every so often, a band like Lifeguard appear and aren’t experimental, but flaunt their impeccable influences in a way that’s so brash and confident.
Every so often, a band like Lifeguard appear and aren’t experimental, but flaunt their impeccable influences in a way that’s so brash and confident.
Jazz guitarist Kenny Burrell’s collection feels more like a warm vignette than a cynical freeze-frame. This is one occasion where digital files simply won’t suffice.
The phrase “brand new old-fashioned” has rarely been more apt, and it’s to their credit that the Loft mostly capture the best of both worlds.
Wolfgang Flür is at least trying to move the Kraftwerk ethos forward. That fact alone gives an album like Times some artistic value.
Television Personalities’ Tune In, Turn On, Drop Out offers a fresh opportunity to explore the band and their still-unique, seemingly contradictory pleasures.
Saint Etienne’s The Night has quite a bit going for it, but it sounds uncharacteristically forced, ultimately collapsing under the weight of its pretension.
Built on pulsating beats, minimalist synth touches, and immaculate sound design, British EDM duo Eli & Fur’s Dreamscapes casts a low-lit, wee-hours spell.
Broadcast’s music always felt mysterious with a degree of distance and isolation. Broadcast were always haunting, and Distant Call leads to that realization.
Culled mostly from previously-released material, this triple-vinyl set catches Fleetwood Mac in the midst of their world-beating commercial phase.
The collaboration between ethereal pop trio Cocteau Twins and avant-gardist Harold Budd, The Moon and the Melodies, hits vinyl for the first time since 1986.
Life is hard, and the world is a dangerous place. The The’s Matt Johnson has never shied away from these realities. He’s as pithy and perceptive as ever.
The Mysterines’ new record is the aural equivalent of a spooky, creaky old house—at an amusement park. It gets the look and feel right, but it’s artifice.