Received with mixed reviews, Shara's All Things Will Unwind was conceived as either too cerebral or a fine portrait of delicate chamber pop. However, no one really declared this album to be superb. Well, I'm going to help Shara Nova (formerly Shara Worden) out with that void. My take? All Things Will Unwind is a near-immaculate effort that offers playful wind arrangements with lyrical innocence: a childlike simplicity conceived with pristine musical elegance. There! How about

"You're all legs / I'm all nerves" hints at neurosis embedded in Annie Clarke's third LP, Strange Mercy. From cheap sex ("Chloe in the Afternoon"), to a declaration of independence ("Cheerleader"), to comforting loved ones with lies ("Strange Mercy"), to the loss of youthful fearlessness ("Year of the Tiger"), Strange Mercy is looking everything face to face only to find one lost in the mess of the unusual. "Bodies, can't you see what everyone wants from you? / If you could w

Hailed by critics and hipsters alike, Grizzly Bear's Veckatimest seemed to be one of the “it” albums released in the first decade of the...

Tune-Yards' I can feel you creep into my private life is conceptually brilliant and did well critically (except with the beloved Pitchfork). Still, nobody seemed to understand how brilliantly the album speaks to the listener. Besides the solid syncopation of rhythm, enticing melodic material, compact harmonies, highly developed sonic landscapes, and, what most critics pick up, the social commentary of being a white person in America, I can feel you creep didn't seem to garner

Upon listening to Guero in high school, I was struck by the fact that I was listening to an album where I had practically nothing to...

"Out of your head and into your hands" is the work motto that the wonderful residential treatment program Gould Farm uses to express the...

Ever since I was seven I had a need for an area to create music at home. There was always a keyboard I had in use and that is still the...

For a long time, caffeine has haunted my conscience and its addictive qualities has made it an object of my curiosity. Like most in the...

British composer Herbert Howells had a knack for writing highly evocative choral compositions. However, his existence in the realm of...

With a strange, ominous harmonic progression and improvisatory guitar, Daniel Rossen's You Belong There opens with what will be the...

Have you ever educated someone during the middle of a war? Do you know how some remain unshaken by the atrocities they face and continue...