James’ Top Albums of 2016
2016 hit ya in the gut. So many groundbreaking artists, musicians and actors alike, that so many generations have grown up listening to and…
7.4
Review: Title Tracks – Long Dream (2016)
John Davis isn’t going anywhere. Debuting in 1998, Davis and his DC dance-punk trio Q And Not U explored the spastic, synthy, sweaty sound…
8.4
Review: American Football – American Football (LP 2) (2016)
It’s hard to even fathom what American Football has accomplished with their second, self-titled new album. Seventeen years ago the band released American Football…
7.6
Review: The Radio Dept. – Running Out of Love (2016)
Somewhere at a private table in a swank nightclub in Stockholm, a cadre of beautifully Swedish leftists debate the Nordic Model and Swedish socialist…
8.0
Review: Hiss Golden Messenger – Heart Like A Levee (2016)
Throughout Heart Like a Levee, the latest record from criminally under-the-radar Hiss Golden Messenger, frontman M.C. Taylor fights with himself. As a working musicians…
9.4
Review: Touché Amoré – Stage Four (2016)
The death of a parent. A “rite of passage” as described by Touché Amoré frontman Jeremy Bolm on “Posing Holy,” off the band’s new…
8.6
Review: Angel Olsen – My Woman (2016)
Angel Olsen has repeatedly said, in interviews and official press release, that she doesn’t want My Woman to read like a feminist manifesto, all…
7.8
Review: The Album Leaf – Between Waves (2016)
Over the course of seventeen years, The Album Leaf has evolved from the introspective, studio-based explorations of former Tristeza and The Locust member Jimmy…
8.6
Review: Russian Circles – Guidance (2016)
Russian Circles enter their second decade fully confident in what it is they do. Guidance shows a band “at the top of their game”…