Music for Crashing Out
Albums contending with divorce, expatriation, suburban malaise, and other concerns
Five Albums
39 articles
The Minor Nobility of Just Messing Around
A Yale professor and ‘One Battle After Another’ star makes his cheeky debut. Plus pop from the Tehrangeles diaspora, the new Tame Impala, and more.
Music for Giving a Crap About Other People
Deliriously strange club music, in-the-moment ambience, a knotted-up singer-songwriter, and more.
A Geese Review That's Not Like Every Other Geese Review
Plus a Massachusetts cellist's untamed rock music, a Cuban repartero's big-leagues gambit, and more.
Work Music for Not Doing Work
Plus psychedelic dorm poster jams, ripping saxophones, gospel-inspired disco-funk, and more.
Music for the Rapture (Not Today)
Free jazz, ambient drone, doomy metal, and other sounds you need to ascend.
Music for Moving Into the Madness
A kaleidoscopic songwriter, a chaotic pop star, a buoyant rap-punk duo, and more.
Dance Pop for the Perpetually Offline
Plus complicated thoughts on the new Big Thief album, three Nashville session guitarists going ambient-cool, and more.
Loud-Ass Guitars for a Crumbling Planet
Plus Pile’s most ambitious work, Kaytranada’s return to form, and a Faye Webster associate who channels Holden Caulfield
The Most Subversive Popular Musician of the Decade
Plus a beloved alté pop star shreds up the existential club