Music Review: Modest Mouse
By Sam Meyers | March 19, 2015Strangers to Ourselves sounds like an album created by people who dislike to hear their own praises.
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.
Harris’s performance felt lackluster, unoriginal and, at times, offensive. And, no, not in the Ricky Gervais, "he’s British, so it’s okay," kind of way.
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.
A change in housing model and differing enforcement of administrative policies has forced a social exodus off of West Campus during the past four years.
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.
Perry’s halftime show was chockfull of spectacle, energy and, above all, fun.
Today I hope to give all of you non-sports lovers a crash course on how to sound intelligent and interested during this upcoming Super Bowl.
Here we are – 2015! We made it! As we move forward into the unknown of this new, exciting year, Recess sat around our crystal ball and summoned forth some predictions for what to expect in 2015.