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It’s a bit like naming your band Illmatic, isn’t it? “Dummy” is a great word with lots of fun uses, but if you bring it up in a music-nerd context, people’s brains will all wander to th...
https://www.stereogum.com/2277845/album-of-the-week-dummy-free-energy/reviews/album-of-the-week/
“I’ve seen so many shit bands throughout the year and often have found myself saying, ‘I can do better than that.’ So that’s what I’m doing. There’s a lot of bands that are almost t...
In Víctor Erice’s 1973 coming-of-age film The Spirit Of The Beehive, a young girl and her sister growing up in 1940s Spain see a mobile cinema’s screening of Frankenstein. “The film’s pr...
Prepare for liftoff. The opening seconds of Wishy’s debut album Triple Seven find the Indianapolis band gearing up to soar. Layers of propulsive guitars enter the frame first — jangling, wail...
https://www.stereogum.com/2275814/wishy-triple-seven-review/reviews/album-of-the-week/
The story of Oso Oso’s new album life till bones begins with tragedy: A month after recording the demos to what would become his 2022 LP sore thumb , emo-pop dignitary Jade Lilitri’s cousin a...
https://www.stereogum.com/2274859/oso-oso-life-till-bones/reviews/album-of-the-week/
Navy Blue’s new album is called Memoirs In Armour, but it’s more like memories in mist. Over the course of about 27 minutes, the Brooklyn-based spitter shrouds fractured recollections in flor...
Wand are the most underrated rock band working today. Between the LA combo’s main catalog and project mastermind Cory Hanson’s solo work, it’s been a long time since he released a less-than...
https://www.stereogum.com/2272112/wand-vertigo/reviews/album-of-the-week/
“It’s with regret I am succumbing to nostalgia,” goes one of the more pointed lines on All Hell, the seventh album from Los Campesinos! Just moments later, frontman Gareth David likens hims...
New Music, Music News
https://www.stereogum.com/2270534/cassandra-jenkins-my-light-my-destroyer/reviews/album-of-the-week/
The history of DIY punk rock in Washington, DC spans something like 45 years. In that time, DC punk has nurtured all sorts of vocalists: growlers, howlers, barkers, snarkers, whiners, moaners, ya...
https://www.stereogum.com/2269561/album-of-the-week-bacchae-next-time/reviews/album-of-the-week/
Let’s start at the top: I fell desperately in love with someone I knew was bound to fuck me up. So begins “Horny Hangover,” the second track and second single of Queen Of Jeans’ third alb...
New Music, Music News
https://www.stereogum.com/2268381/o-weirdos/reviews/album-of-the-week/
If Water From Your Eyes take an “everything but the kitchen sink” approach to making music, Nate Amos’ solo work as This Is Lorelei tosses in the whole damn kitchen. Referring to This Is Lo...
Last year, Peggy Gou made a worldwide hit. Up until the moment that it happened, this didn’t seem especially likely. Gou was a well-known figure in the dance-music intelligentsia, the type of u...
https://www.stereogum.com/2265771/album-of-the-week-peggy-gou-i-hear-you/reviews/album-of-the-week/
Summer is here, and so is its soundtrack. Whereas some forms of dream-pop sound unmistakably like winter, the Marías make music for sweltering poolsides, afternoons encased in air conditioning, ...
https://www.stereogum.com/2264495/the-marias-submarine/reviews/album-of-the-week/
If a decade ago you told me that not only would DIIV still be around, but that they’d be considered a modern standard bearer to a younger generation, I’d be equal parts surprised and relieved...
https://www.stereogum.com/2264006/diiv-frog-in-boiling-water-review/reviews/album-of-the-week/
My body instantly locks in with the driving drumbeat — my pulse, my breathing, the insatiable urge to bop along. The guitar chords ripple and shimmer, and a tail of colorful dissolving static s...
https://www.stereogum.com/2263373/from-indian-lakes-head-void/reviews/album-of-the-week/
All music is the product of thoughts and feelings, but Tom Krell’s derives from so many thoughts, from emotions felt so deeply. Most albums released into the music industry slipstream are prese...
https://www.stereogum.com/2261975/how-to-dress-well-i-am-toward-you/reviews/album-of-the-week/
Funeral For Justice is a fantastic record that should not have to exist. Last summer, during Tuareg rocker Mdou Moctar’s North American tour, his home country of Niger was thrown into chaos whe...
Dumpster-diving by a Dunkin’ Donuts. Spraying insecticide in closets to get rid of roaches. Walking seven miles with friends after getting too high to drive, only to realize you forgot your wal...
An act of God can leave you cowering before nature — but not every storm cometh the same.
Listening to Still House Plants can feel like witnessing a song come together in real time. Years ago, the UK-based trio would open sets with “Pleasures,” a track from their landmark 2020 alb...
They don’t make pop music like this anymore.
New Music, Music News
https://www.stereogum.com/2256904/chastity-belt-live-laugh-love/reviews/album-of-the-week/
Here’s a folk-rock album that actually rocks, folks.
https://www.stereogum.com/2256050/rosali-bite-down-review/reviews/album-of-the-week/
Something changed when I turned 40. I developed a taste for tea. I started dressing, in the words of one friend, “like a history teacher.” And suddenly, after never giving the genre more than...
https://www.stereogum.com/2254843/the-messthetics-and-james-brandon-lewis/reviews/album-of-the-week/
“Bye Bye” doesn’t just sound like a Playboi Carti song. The beat was actually made for Playboi Carti. According to a recent Kim Gordon profile in the New York Times , Justin Raisen — who�...
https://www.stereogum.com/2253903/kim-gordon-the-collective/reviews/album-of-the-week/
Three songs into Half Divorced, the sixth album from long-running Philadelphia noise-punk band Pissed Jeans, we’re really hitting a groove. Drums hit like nutpunches. Guitars squall and splatte...
Standing in the back of the 85-cap Long Island music venue Amityville Music Hall in December, I was bewildered. No one was moving as Glitterer’s idiosyncratic clamor erupted from the stage as t...
https://www.stereogum.com/2252230/glitterer-rationale/reviews/album-of-the-week/
Throughout all of this past year’s discourse over the commercial decline of rap music, I wondered if the problem was less that listeners had lost interest in the genre than the artists themselv...
https://www.stereogum.com/2250941/heems-lapgan-lafandar/reviews/album-of-the-week/
Many years ago, I got stopped on the street in New York by a woman who wanted to talk about Slutever. I was wearing one of the band’s T-shirts — I can’t remember exactly what it looked like...
https://www.stereogum.com/2250520/pouty-forgot-about-me/reviews/album-of-the-week/
If you’re ever driving along the highway outside Marquette, Michigan, you might see a 50-foot metal dinosaur holding a fishing pole. That dinosaur marks the entrance of a very strange place cal...
https://www.stereogum.com/2249227/liquid-mike-paul-bunyans-slingshot/reviews/album-of-the-week/
Katy Kirby didn’t exactly come out of nowhere, but her debut Cool Dry Place was the sort of album that snuck up on you. When I wrote about it for Album Of The Week in 2021, I made sure to note...
https://www.stereogum.com/2248066/katy-kirby-blue-raspberry/reviews/album-of-the-week/
Glass Beach disappeared for half a decade and came back a different band. It’s not that new album Plastic Death forgoes the ambitious sweep and madcap inspiration of 2019’s The First Glass Be...
https://www.stereogum.com/2246773/glass-beach-plastic-death/reviews/album-of-the-week/
Kali Uchis, connoisseur of a gooey R&B that dims the lights of the mind and puts the blunt between your fingers, opens her fourth album in a curl of smoke and giggles, the bass a down blanket to ...
https://www.stereogum.com/2246668/kali-uchis-orquideas/reviews/album-of-the-week/
Some band names are instructive, and the Dublin punk band Sprints live up to their moniker more often than not. At some point during most songs on Sprints’ debut album Letter To Self, the music...
https://www.stereogum.com/2246344/sprints-letter-to-self/reviews/album-of-the-week/
One of my favorite movies of all time is Matewan, the 1987 historical drama directed by John Sayles. The film depicts the struggle of the coal miners of Matewan, West Virginia as they form a unio...
What do Madison, Wisconsin and Manchester, England have in common? Superficially, maybe nothing, besides the odd fact that you could get away with a cheery “Believe you me!” in both places. B...
Sentinel announce themselves forcefully and immediately. “Krieg,” the opening track from the underground supergroup’s full-length debut album Age Of Decay, begins with a counted-off thud an...
https://www.stereogum.com/2244487/sentinel-age-of-decay/reviews/album-of-the-week/
“We’re bringing you to this edge of an empty void… you’re staring at the precipice of oblivion with us.”
https://www.stereogum.com/2243674/full-of-hell-nothing-when-no-birds-sang/reviews/album-of-the-week/