The Strokes' fifth album is immediately appealing as they sound like they’re genuinely having fun. At times it feels like a mixtape the Strokes made for themselves: 11 songs, 11 different genre experiments.
The perfectly macabre and tender soundtrack for Sofia Coppola's masterpiece. Sometimes psychedelic, sometimes devastating: it makes a great companion to the Eugenides novel.
Some forty years into one of music's most impactful partnerships, Tears for Fears have arrived together at The Tipping Point - the group's ambitious, accomplished and surprising first new studio album in nearly two decades.
Four blokes from England in ghillie suits. The title lays out their thesis, and then they deliver on it -- squelched-synth tales of our dark, degrading times. Sounds like Chrome doing non-stop dance floor bangers. Way better than Viagra Boys.