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“Equal parts doo wop, vocal jazz, and Norman Rockwell-era Americana, Love to Live is a product of another time, an album that wouldn’t seem out of place on the phonograph of some postwar American living room.”–All Music Guide
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“The Sea is a testament to Rae’s artistic growth as it provides comfort to those left on the wistful side of eternal love, and insight to those who are not.”–All Music Guide
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“Simmering more than it strikes, High Violet coaxes you into baroque indie darkness rather than shines bright pop lights. But the National inevitably make that bleakness sound incredibly seductive and impossibly cool. That’s the National’s insidious brilliance: No other band makes dark and stormy seem like ideal weather.”–Spin
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“Compass is actually the former Super_Collider frontman’s funkiest outing yet, with no shortage of booty-shaking bass, gritty drum grooves, or gnarly vintage-keyboard textures…The expansive supporting cast here includes Beck, Chilly Gonzales, and Nikka Costa.”–The Phoenix
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“Janelle Monáe is not like other pop stars. The ArchAndroid, her debut album, is an 18-track, 70-minute conceptual opus, split into two suites, each one separated by ludicrously extravagant Overtures. To say it’s ambitious feels like damning with faint praise; its sheer musical scope – from the James Brown funk of Tightrope to [...]
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“The music…is the stuff of romcom soundtracks: acoustic in mood, gently pulsing, shot with silvery strings, occasionally stumbling into schmaltz. Sounds awful? Well, no, because Thorn’s voice, rich and smooth as the most expensive chocolate truffle, brings each story to genuine life and invests it with heart-snagging emotion.”–The Guardian
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“The long songs reveal Murphy’s bottom-line agenda: He’s still a dance guy at heart, and he knows it’s his job to ignite parties and clubs. But he approaches dance music more like a folkie singer-songwriter than a DJ, as a vehicle for storytelling and confession. So crank up the music, and move your [...]