Album Reviews

Rick Ross Mastermind (Deluxe Edition) Reviewed by: Sebastian Mackay   Mastermind is the type of cliche, void of imagination, abhorrent, music we’ve come to expect from the hip hop industry. It systematically ticks every box on the list of cookie cutter, drone, bland, Read More

Doomsquad Kalaboogie Reviewed by: Sebastian Mackay   First and foremost, Doomsquad get extra points for having inventive song titles (“Born From the Marriage of the Moon and a Crocodile”, “Kalaboogie”, “Ovoo”). More importantly, however, is the music itself. “When the Dead Read More

St. Vincent Self-Titled Reviewed by: Stephen Krock   This princess of alternative pop returns on the scene in St. Vincent’s fourth and self-titled album. She joins the ranks of Robyn and Marina & the Diamonds, with a punkish royal promenade of tracks that have the harsh, Read More

Bleeding Rainbow Interrupt Reviewed by: Samantha Weinraub   On a personal level, Bleeding Rainbow won me over before even listening to them. There’s something about taking a beloved artifact from childhood, (like television program Reading Rainbow, say) and turning it into Read More

Brandt Brauer Frick DJ- Kicks Reviewed by: Sebastian Mackay   A fairly eclectic mix of reasonably short tracks that feel as though they’re designed more for movies and video games than booty shaking. A bad thing? Maybe, maybe not. The maybe:  it’s a collection of 28 DJ Read More

Yellow Ostrich Cosmos Reviewed by: Melissa Komar   Cosmos is definitely something to howl at the moon about, sans the solar system references and inspirations.  Yellow Ostrich’s fifth album plays like a band that has polished their product like a debut and it reaches far Read More