John Lennon and Yoko Ono Share Their Wedding With the Masses on 'Wedding Album'
The Wedding Album's "John & Yoko" is a brilliantly disquieting composition that exists unequivocally as an intentional, constructed art piece.
22 Mar 2019
Mike Schiller
Mike Schiller is a software engineer in Buffalo, NY. He has blogged and written music and video game reviews for PopMatters since 2004, and also spent a couple years editing the Multimedia section. He also spent five years writing regular game reviews for the Raleigh News & Observer, and has had freelance work published at The Escapist and Polygon.
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Overloaded and Undercooked: Juice WRLD's 'Death Race for Love'
The type of personality drawn in by a hyperviolent fantasy demolition derby headed up by a killer clown is likely very similar to that which most closely identifies with Juice WRLD's unfocused emotional ramblings.
14 Mar 2019
Inspiring Empathy by Removing the Abstraction: Tey Meadow's 'Trans Kids'
With Trans Kids, Tey Meadow educates readers and gives them hope for societies that are just now learning to address gender beyond the strictures of presumed binary biology.
05 Mar 2019
Jon Morris' 'The League of Regrettable Sidekicks' Is Itself a Victim of Questionable Standards
Mere mediocrity on the part of the superhero sidekicks doesn't seem a high enough bar for inclusion in a tome such as The League of Regrettable Sidekicks.
29 Nov 2018
Hamell on Trial's Latest Showcases a Man, His Guitar, and a Boatload of Anger
This is how the stream-of-consciousness rantings of an angry 60-something-year-old man should sound. Even the title of the album looks like it's missing some punctuation.
14 Nov 2018
Ray BLK Proves She Is Ready for Her Crown on 'Empress'
Empress is brilliant. Ray BLK has earned a spot at the top of the R&B heap. Hand her the crown.
01 Nov 2018
Ella Mai Offers a Look at R&B's Future
Ella Mai's self-titled debut album tries to do too much, but succeeds regardless. When the sky is the limit, can you really blame an artist for throwing everything at the wall and seeing what sticks?
25 Oct 2018
Kero Kero Bonito's 'Time 'n' Place' Shows a Band Looking to the Future
Time 'n' Place sounds transitional as if Kero Kero Bonito are working their way into something that's more sustainable than the often wild, sometimes too-cute experiments of their past.
24 Oct 2018
Steven A. Clark's 'Where Neon Goes to Die' Offers Grime Beneath the Glitz
On Where Neon Goes to Die, Steven A. Clark gives us a look at a Miami where the shine is present, but the darkness beneath is the main attraction.
09 Oct 2018
St. Lucia's 'Hyperion' Finds the Sunlight Between the Clouds
We have to get to the point where we see each other as human again. On Hyperion, St. Lucia is trying to show us the way. We need to start listening.
05 Oct 2018
Robert Aickman's 'Compulsory Games' and the Art of the Miserably Fascinating Short Story
Aickman's ability to imbue in the mundane a hint of the supernatural pushes these stories from the utterly average into absorbing, fascinating territory.
28 Sep 2018
Dizzee Rascal Continues to Operate on Another Level on 'Don't Gas Me'
Dizzee Rascal offers up five brilliant new tracks on Don't Gas Me, and they confirm the artist hasn't lost his hunger. In fact, he's setting up for a blazing future.
26 Sep 2018
Arp's 'Zebra': Treading the Line Between Contentment and Indifference
Arp's Zebra is impeccably produced, the result of an artist living with his art, refining it, and turning it into exactly what he wants it to be, but it is a strangely sterile, emotionless experience.
11 Sep 2018
Gui Boratto's 'Pentagram' Is a Forward-Looking Mess of Moods and Styles
Gui Boratto's next great album isn't Pentagram, but it holds a lot of promise for his future.
10 Sep 2018
Lykke Li's 'so sad so sexy' Is As Advertised
On so sad so sexy, Swedish pop singer Lykke Li has created mood music that works as well as a breakup album as it does a warm-up for the club.
15 Aug 2018
Bernice's 'Puff LP' Finds Form in the Amorphous
Tethered to no style or genre, Bernice's Puff LP exists as its own tiny universe of sound, unassuming and intriguing, a treasure waiting to be uncovered.
21 Jun 2018
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