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Actress: R.I.P
R.I.P. marries the familiarity of techno with the abstraction of minimalist and ambient, marring none of the genres and coalescing into something of a transcendental dance record.
Beach House: Bloom
Beach House’s Bloom conjures blooming nostalgia — a sort of tribute to teenhood.
Santigold: Master Of My Make-Believe
Santigold’s Master of My Make-Believe is a call to action that is vaguely contextual just as pop as a genre is vaguely genre-specific – call it protest pop.
Steve Aoki: Wonderland
Since Steve Aoki’s live performance is tomorrow, here’s a little sumthin’ sumthin’ to get you pumped.
Dawn Richard: Armor On
Dawn Richard’s almost conceptual Armor On EP might not be the most original of ideas, but on a pop record it’s a novelty that we’d like to see more of.
Death Grips: The Money Store
Had Onyx went full punk, you’d get Death Grips major label debut, The Money Store.
Perfume Genius: Put Your Back N 2 It
Unlike its predecessor, Learning, Perfume Genius’ sophomore sees a silver lining in a perennially darken cloud.
Spiritualized: Sweet Heart Sweet Light
Because we’re corny; Spiritualized’s latest sees the band spiritualised. Sweet Heart Sweet Light is impressive.
Willis Earl Beal: Acousmatic Sorcery
Outside the fringes of mainstream and alternative is lo-fi weirdo Willis Earl Beal and his promising but not stunning debut, Acousmatic Sorcery.
BadBadNotGood: BBNG2
BadBadNotGood’s self-released LP BBNG2 is good, good, not bad, actually.