In juggling more styles than the group has ever attempted on a single album, the through line is a refreshing live feel that grounds Down on Earth in reality. Longtime front-of-house engineer Zac ...

If Weird Revolution – an interesting sideways step rather than a debacle – was erased from existence and memory, After the Astronaut would feel like a rousing and often powerful end to a career of ...

Relatively early in A Prayer for the Dying, a man whose son is afflicted with a particular kind of plague compares his current situation to the Biblical character of Abraham—or, more specifically, the ...

It’s rare to finish reading a book of moral philosophy and immediately want to pass it on to your friends, but Call It Evil is that book. Urgent, sharply written, fascinating and extremely readable, ...

As enormously successful and highly praised as The Kick Inside was, it may be surprising that several of its tracks have ended up at the low end of our ratings. Perhaps less remarkable is the ...

Things were different by 2009. Outside of Michel Gondry’s excellent, misunderstood video rental love letter, Be Kind Rewind, the fulfilling roles Bey enjoyed in The Woodsman, Something the Lord Made ...

Bob Dylan isn’t Homer – or even a Joyce, Woolf or Baldwin – but he’s a particular kind of pop genius with no counterpart. We often lump him with the Beatles and the Stones. But those two bands peaked ...

There’s a significant amount of likability inherent to nearly every Kiwi Jr. song. The Canadian quartet traffic in the sort of warm and jangly slacker rock that makes listing the band’s most obvious ...

Some of the best albums have titles that tell you exactly what to expect. Braxton’s Splayed Werks isn’t “the best,” but its playful title hammers its purpose home: it’s a collection of assorted works, ...

“If Not for You” After essentially changing the face of popular music in the 1960s, Dylan’s 1970s was typified by a desire to return to some sort of simplicity, as evidenced by New Morning, the ...

Wordplay, structural games and hidden rules can all be sensed in the formal construction of Centroeuropa, giving it a paradoxical air of arbitrary intention and inevitable serendipity.