Music Reviews tagged with pop
Beach Fossils Beach Fossils
In a time when sun-drenched pop is starting to outstay it’s welcome, Beach Fossils try to outshine their contemporaries with more distinctive melodic hooks and a welcome variation of influences.
Juan Edgardo Rodríguez reviews...Tracey Thorn Love and Its Opposite
Former Everything But The Girl vocalist, Tracey Thorn, gets personal on her latest LP, Love and Its Opposite
Joe Rivers reviews...MGMT Congratulations
MGMT follow up their frontloaded but catchy debut with an album that tries its best to be difficult.
Andrew Baer is fine listening to this but is far from entertained or intrigued...Usher Raymond v. Raymond
Top R&B vocalist returns with sixth album, featuring more dance grooves and bedroom escapades.
Genice Phillips reviews...Dum Dum Girls I Will Be
Revisiting the 60s girl group and examining the teenage heart, Dum Dum Girls’ debut is the sweetest album to come out in a long time. And, I mean that in a good way.
Sean Caldwell reviews...Efterklang Magic Chairs
Danish visionaries Efterklang return with album number three, their first for the prestigious 4AD. A stripped down sound and a more direct focus means this is a record of pop gems to be truly savoured.
Jody White again discovers how less really can be more...Gorillaz Plastic Beach
Third classic from the cartoons.
George Booker reviews...Pantha Du Prince Black Noise
Hendrick Weber's first release for Rough Trade dissapointingly throws a few spanners in the works.
Jody White reviews...Shout Out Louds Work
If this album were a little worse, I could have written something like "Listening to Work feels like a job!" Then David would give me a big check and some girl would blow me, because puns are the best. Sadly, though, it's just a pretty good pop record.
Nate Adams only makes one "work" joke in the entire review, and you should be proud of him...jj jj n° 3
Swedish indie-pop enigma jj broke out last year, gaining notoriety with their cannabis-emblazoned full-length debut, jj n° 2. With their follow-up, jj n° 3, they won't be so lucky.
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