Album Reviews

Written by Noelle Simeon Tegan and Sara have been busy the last few years. Their 2019 memoir High School turned-TV-show premiered this month, a prequel graphic novel Junior High is due in 2023, postings in their popular Substack online newsletter “I Think We’re Alone Read More

Written by Noelle Simeon In 2002 you could find my friends and me cruising around the San Fernando Valley, blasting music from bands like Korn, Disturbed, and Lacuna Coil. Lacuna Coil stood out from the rest, with full orchestras and Christina Scabbia‘s operatic voice Read More

  Written by Noelle Simeon When I first looked up Gigi Rowe, I saw her bright-colored wigs and comic book stylized website and expected much of the same from her debut, full-length album Laura. She has a Cyndi Lauper aesthetic, which isn’t accidental. Her website Read More

Written by Noelle Simeon Inspired by Vivaldi‘s “Four Seasons,” Weezer‘s SZNZ: Autumn, one-quarter of a four-album concept, awakens familiar demons with their fun-but-awkward style. I mean, it’s Weezer. They know how to fuse an anxious song and sway Read More

Written by Noelle Simeon Photo by Sonya Jasinski The last time I actively listened to Michelle Branch was in the early aughts. One of the forerunners of the pop-but-with-soul sound of the time, Branch could play the guitar and gaze longingly from the television screen with hits Read More

Album Review by Noelle Simeon Halsey’s If I Can’t Have Love, I Want Power is an emotional and haunting album from start to finish. Completed with collaborators Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross as producers, Halsey strayed from her usual pop sound to deliver a beautifully dark and Read More