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Music Review: James Vincent McMorrow
By Anna Koelsch | January 9, 2014What a wonderful album to release during these frigid depths of winter.
What a wonderful album to release during these frigid depths of winter.
The score is sometimes uncertain, sometimes frenzied, sometimes spine-chilling and sometimes glorious.
“Britney Jean” isn't particularly innovative, but it shouldn’t have to be.
"The Emerson String Quartet is probably the most important American string quartet of the last quarter century."
"Divas! Queens! We don't need no man! Salute!"
"There is something in the music that reaches somebody’s soul or some part of somebody’s soul."
It’s deliberately fashioned to keep us on edge, and once again, Bird pulls at us, affecting a plaintive beauty as he pulls his bow.
"Surrender to the Fantasy" showcases Magik Markers’s trip into psychedelia.
Lady Gaga should have stopped making music after "The Fame Monster.'
The concert aims to reflect the station’s combined community and student presence.
The concert aims to reflect the station’s combined community and student presence.
M.I.A. dodges the trope of slapping mellow rap beats onto sad memories by making this cut about owning—as opposed to disavowing—her rise to success.
I would sit for hours, deep into my Greek literature, conspicuously bobbing my chin to the bass of 'Sweet Jane.'
"You kind of lose the magic when you have to constantly translate your ideas with collaborations."
The members of the Arcade Fire have never been interested in simply producing records.
"It’s just always been music."
yMusic boasted classical fluency and the camaraderie of a garage band.
There was something disconcerting about the realization that he was living in nostalgia every night.
There are few as technically talented or as divisive as Yuja Wang.
Though the title might convey otherwise, she’s no longer the stoned cat-lover recording garage songs in her bedroom about boys.