album reviews

Florence Welch Learns How to Scream
November 6, 2025
The title track on “Everybody Scream,” the new album by Florence and the Machine, opens with a synth organ layered over an eerie choral harmony. In the video, directed...
A Bona-Fide Disco Album That Feels Urgently of the Moment
October 18, 2025
Many of the paired dances of the twentieth century—the foxtrot, the waltz, the Lindy Hop—reflected the binary gender dynamics of the day: men led and women followed, on the...
The Lush Pain Music of Nourished by Time
August 30, 2025
Marcus Brown’s voice is a crooner’s voice, a baritone, emanating notes from some spot in his body deeper than his chest. Biologically speaking, this is impossible. But taking in...