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Album Reviews | Arctic Monkeys – AM (2013)
When the Arctic Monkeys exploded onto the scene in early 2006 with their classic debut Whatever People Say I Am, That’s What I’m Not, it was with the force of a hurricane, their garage roc...
Album Reviews | Queens of the Stone Age – …Like Clockwork (2013)
I have listened to …Like Clockwork a whole bunch of times now, and can happily report that if you are a fan of their earlier masterwork Songs for the Deaf (2002), you will like the latest offeri...
Album Reviews | Daft Punk – Random Access Memories (2013)
It’s too early to tell whether Random Access Memories will be a zeitgeist album like 21, Nevermind or Thriller, but its epic, large-scale marketing campaign sure has hit all the right beats so f...
Album Reviews | Vampire Weekend – Modern Vampires of the City (2013)
Over the course of just five years, the music press has bestowed heavy crowns upon Vampire Weekend‘s heads. Their 2008 self-titled debut was a big indie hit; it appeared on dozens of year-end li...
Album Reviews | Kurt Vile – Wakin On a Pretty Daze (2013)
One of the reasons why 2013 was such a great year for music was because of albums like Kurt Vile‘s Wakin on a Pretty Daze, a lo-fi record released on the indie label Matador. It’s the kind...
