At age 29, Jesso is a late bloomer for today’s music industry, yet it is his maturity that brings his music the gravitas and emotional intelligence that makes it so powerful.
Listening to the album, one gets the sense that she might be singing her twitter feed aloud.
Today, his works are a sort of time capsule, allowing viewers to partially experience what life was like back then.
Strangers to Ourselves sounds like an album created by people who dislike to hear their own praises.
While Blade of the Ronin is disappointing in many aspects, it still overall is an entertaining and worthwhile listen.
The beauty in this album is found in the more vulnerable moments.
I once asked an honest, musically aware friend if it would ever be respectable to like Never Shout Never. His immediate text response: “No.”
This victory makes him the only Duke employee, including faculty, who has won a Grammy award.
“Oh it has to be love. Either that or losing one’s goat.”
If You’re Reading This It’s Too Late is the weakest of his four main commercial releases but still a solid artistic statement and a worthwhile listen.
Our Own House is fun, upbeat, relatable and a joy to jam out to from start to finish.
Father John Misty’s new album, I Love You, Honeybear, is a rare example of moderation in modern music.
How long can they rely on the same formulas to generate their music? With Smoke + Mirrors, it would seem they intend to find out.
Fifty Shades of Grey, the controversial and best-selling book-turned-movie, is accompanied by several different shades of music
While it may not achieve the heights of Kanye West and Kendrick Lamar’s appearances in recent years, LDOC 2015 should be a return to form for Duke’s biggest concert.
Kodaline may have taken a few more pages out of Coldplay’s book with Coming Up for Air than one might like, but they salvage their identity with a few standout tracks that separate them from this...
With soaring ballads and thick, entrancing beats, Panda Bear shows us how to tune out extraneous distractions and exist thoroughly in the present.
While it falls well short of inspirational, Wallflower is slightly moving as a show of love and nostalgia for the past.
"When I used to listen to records in the ‘80s as a teenager, they were singing to you and telling you stuff about life you didn’t know. It was in the lyrics and it was in the feeling.”
Nicki Minaj has chosen to please everyone, and she has largely succeeded.
