Barrie Rushes Into Love and Its Challenges on ‘Barbara’ (for Paste Magazine)
Click here to read: “Barrie is now a glistening, confident synth-pop act with tinges of folk, and the warm yet tentative hue that clouded Happy to Be Here is mostly gone.”
Click here to read: “Barrie is now a glistening, confident synth-pop act with tinges of folk, and the warm yet tentative hue that clouded Happy to Be Here is mostly gone.”
Click here to read: “On her second LP, the Los Angeles musician swaps her debut’s shoegaze for more aggressive sounds—and creates her best songs yet.”
Click here to read: “On her long-gestating debut album, Glass sounds like she’s walking through memories of being emotionally abused, rather than raging with daggers out.”
Click here to read: “Brooklyn experimentalist Taja Cheek is in a constant state of flux on her sophomore album, and her warbly, yet instantly memorable music follows suit.”
Click here to read: “Meagan Rodriguez designed her second album to resemble the ins and outs of mentally spiraling, winding up with a handful of the year’s best low-key dance…
Click here to read: “On her aquatic second album, Chicago-via-London musician Lillie West embraces transformation more than ever before.”
Click here to read: “Alan Sparhawk and Mimi Parker’s 13th album in nearly three decades—and first as a duo—is a visceral treatise on modern-day existential dread.”
Click here to read: “The fifth album from Nate Amos and Rachel Brown finds them doing what they’ve always done, better than ever before.”
Click here to read: “On her first solo album in 11 years, Annika Henderson continues exploring personal and political power, with a clearer sound than ever before.”
Click here to read: “The production wizard’s second album is his most compact work yet, which is alternately a boon and a crutch.”