Record Reviews

White Violet: Hiding, Mingling

Heart-heavy pop splendor

Normaltown Records

By Bao Le-Huu | August 14, 2012
Ariel Pink: Mature Themes

The best album yet from the bedroom-pop mainstay?

4AD

By | August 14, 2012
Koko Beware: Something About the Summer

Youthful garage debauchery meets sweet surf-pop

Independent Release

By Gabe Vodicka | August 13, 2012
2 Chainz: Based on a T.R.U. Story

Individual energy tempered by commercial consideration

Def Jam

By Will Stephenson | August 13, 2012
I Come to Shanghai: Eternal Life, Vol. 1 & 2

Vaguely conceptual synth-pop

Texachusetts

By Gabe Vodicka | August 9, 2012
Hand Sand Hands: Reded EP

A brief sampling of this new local band's fuzzed and sparkling psych

Independent Release

By Gabe Vodicka | August 7, 2012