Album Reviews

Taking Back Sunday Happiness Is Reviewed by: Melissa Komar   Happiness Is, the sixth and latest eleven track album by Taking Back Sunday, is just that: happiness in the form of a blissful, musical walk that takes you back to the greatness churned out by the original and now Read More

Foster the People Supermodel Reviewed by: Melissa Komar   Supermodel, Foster the People’s sophomore 12-track album has a tough act to follow in the trio’s Grammy nominated debut album Torches and chart-topping hit “Pumped Up Kicks”, but follow it does, with an Read More

Metronomy Love Letters Reviewed by: Samantha Weinraub   Remember in the final scene of Hair, when everyone streams onto the grassy field, and “Let the Sun Shine” plays in the background? That is the visual title track “Love Letters” conjures.  I dare you to try and not bob Read More

September Girls Cursing the Sea Reviewed by: Stephen Krock   Dublin-based noise pop quintet, September Girls, resume their noisemaking with Cursing the Sea. It is at once an ethereal chorus of pop goddess vocals and tinny, earthbound garage rock, with guitar riffs that ebb Read More

La Dispute Rooms Of The House Reviewed by: Sebastian Mackay   It’s rare that a band comes along and sits at the front of their genre. But that’s exactly what La Dispute have done and they’ve done it since their first album came out. On each of their records music and poetry Read More

Elbow The Take Off and Landing of Everything Reviewed by: Jane Roser   Released today by Fiction/Concord Records, The Take Off and Landing of Everything is UK alternative rock band Elbow’s 6th studio album. It sees the band taking a new approach to writing and Read More