[50-41] [40-31] [30-21] [Top 20] 30 Nicolas Jaar Sirens Chilean-American composer Nicolas Jaar’s second official (third, unofficially) offering to the masses is, once again, an electronic monster, with an affinity for reeds. Distorted saxophones elope with blipped drumming and fluffed bass to generate a sound that feels both immediately familiar and completely alien. Sampled vocals make […]
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Album Review: Parquet Courts – Human Performance
Parquet Courts have always played with the instability of their identity. On ‘N. Dakota‘, a lethargic, dusty cut from the band’s much-lauded 2013 debut Light Up Gold, dual frontmen Andrew Savage and Austin Brown jointly envisioned themselves as the “westbound taken exiled Texan”, which would be fitting for a band that migrated from the Lone […]