Spectrum Culture

• Mount Eerie: Night Palace | Spectrum Culture | Nov. 7, 2024, 6:03 a.m.
Mount Eerie returns after five years with an album of self-liberation, involving elements of Zen Buddhism and rocking out.

• Willie Nelson: Last Leaf on the Tree | Spectrum Culture | Nov. 6, 2024, 6:02 a.m.
Last Leaf on the Tree gives Nelson further space to explore his mortality, something he's been doing explicitly since he reached his mid-80s.

• The Cure: Songs of a Lost World | Spectrum Culture | Nov. 4, 2024, 6:05 a.m.
After nearly 50 years, the Cure have finally delivered an album filled with exactly what their detractors have always claimed; unremitting angst and misery. The punchline is that it’s great; indeed, “their best since Disintegration.”

• Pixies: The Night the Zombies Came | Spectrum Culture | Oct. 28, 2024, 5:06 a.m.
Pixies’ 10th album, The Night the Zombies Came, is a good album that fans of latter-day Pixies will have no trouble embracing and even skeptical older fans should grudgingly admire.