Spectrum Culture

• NEW FKA twigs: Eusexua | Spectrum Culture | Jan. 29, 2025, 6:04 a.m.
Using classic dancefloor sounds, FKA twigs captures the volatile energy of a night at the club.

• Victoria Canal: Slowly, It Dawns | Spectrum Culture | Jan. 21, 2025, 6:06 a.m.
A rising singer/songwriter bursts with well-earned confidence while questioning herself and her choices.

• Ringo Starr: Look Up | Spectrum Culture | Jan. 21, 2025, 6:05 a.m.
Starr doesn't aim for anything too fancy, but his love for the genre comes through. His warmth helps make the album a little more than it could have been.

• Lambrini Girls: Who Let the Dogs Out | Spectrum Culture | Jan. 16, 2025, 6:03 a.m.
No amount of aggressive production or spirited shouting fixes the fact that Who Let the Dogs Out has little particularly novel or radical to say, and the project is at its best when there’s no pretense about this fact.

• Franz Ferdinand: The Human Fear | Spectrum Culture | Jan. 15, 2025, 6:03 a.m.
It feels like learning a fundamental truth about the band that even longtime fans may not have wanted to accept: perhaps Franz Ferdinand has plateaued, even stagnated.

• Ethel Cain: Perverts | Spectrum Culture | Jan. 10, 2025, 6:06 a.m.
If Preacher’s Daughter was the sound of someone barely holding things together, then Perverts is the sound of that same person letting things fall apart completely.

• U2: How to Dismantle/Re-assemble An Atomic Bomb | Spectrum Culture | Dec. 5, 2024, 6:05 a.m.
In terms of overall sound, this is the no-frills rock album that U2 wanted to make, or it’s about as close as a band like U2 could get to making something like that.

• Kim Deal: Nobody Loves You More | Spectrum Culture | Nov. 27, 2024, 6:09 a.m.
Kim Deal’s first solo record is a pleasant and likeable album with hidden depths, channeling deep, powerful and often ambivalent emotions into a set of surprisingly mild and melodic pop songs.

• Michael Kiwanuka: Small Changes | Spectrum Culture | Nov. 15, 2024, 6:04 a.m.
Michael Kiwanuka has always been most comfortable in the reflective quiet that sits beneath even his rowdiest cuts. Small Changes finally sees him lead with it.

• Father John Misty: Mahashmashana | Spectrum Culture | Nov. 22, 2024, 6:07 a.m.
With a lyrically dense and sonically diverse assortment of songs, Father John Misty’s sixth album is brilliant and moving — a record that can be interpreted in various ways that all relate to the human condition.