This exact formula probably will function well with the new listeners, although it's hard to imagine someone appreciating Buck65 for all he's worth without being familiar with his earlier work.

Sweeney brings an array of agile guitar playing and striking harmonies that create a more contained, musically astute Billyvironment.

We find ourselves encountering songs that give themselves the time and space to breathe, build, incorporate shimmering choirs of backing singers and more layered overdubs than you can shake a stick at into the mix.

Another album to blow up the cemetery to.

It is Amon Tobin's richest work, and incredibly aurally pleasing.

He reins in some of his rougher edges, offering listeners a more streamlined sound.

Trials and Errors could be looked at as vindication for Molina given his choice to move on from his Songs: Ohia days; but as an essential live album, [it] leaves much to be desired.

This album is legitimately well made, and despite his limitations as a rapper, The Game has skill enough to support his charisma.

Comets on Fire, 90 Day Men and No Doctors all released albums within the last year that proved classic rock to be relevant in today's music community. The difference between these bands and Black Mountain is that it doesn't sound like the members of Black Mountain had to crush their souls to write their songs.

It simply lacks even the remotest kind of emotional weight, favoring that emo-lite, predictable kind of melodic progressions that make you swoon the same way a hot muffin on a cold day might.

The subject matter on the indistinguishably titled Love, Angel, Music, Baby is painfully mainstream throughout.

Destiny Fulfilled starts off pitifully and only gets worse.

What is absolutely impressive about MF Doom is his ability to craft unique, memorable characters with each consecutive album release while still imbuing a sense of unity and dynamic interplay.

There is too much focus (or carelessness, perhaps) on his herky-jerky flows that match drum for drum, and the simple rhymes and tired messages are pathetic.

It's obvious after a few listens that the weight of the talent collected here hurts White People as often as it helps.

With Tigers clocking in at a brisk 35 minutes, she definitely leaves you hungry for more.

If you like Palace Music, Joji will most likely make your day.

In spite of every effort and explicit claim to the contrary, it doesn't really sound like they're having that much fun.

His legacy is confirmed and almost nothing he does could harm that, but it also seems as though the young bucks of the music world are progressing the framework more so than he.

A danceable yet heavy album.

As a word of warning, though, this brilliant, but lengthy double album may not be the best beginner's guide to Nick Cave. However, for anyone who is a fan of the duration of his career, this album rewards the listener with a bit of the best of everything he has to offer.

A relaxed, tender record with enough grace, humor, and intelligence mixed at just the right moments with heady rushes of musical energy that one is left captivated.

This record is full of the illogical, instinctive, incomprehensible poetry that the BEST Rock & Roll lyrics are made of, and contains some of the most distinctive and indeed brilliant music of the last ten years/twenty five years/ever/let's get more carried away.

Crackles with sparkling guitar work and [is] simply a great, fun, rock n' roll album.

Mediocre... I'm just so used to this indie dance sound that Le Tigre just sounds boring in the context of Fall 2004.

This is the sound of a band in transition.

If you're not moved in some way, you don't move.

There's a swagger about Dents and Shells unseen since Since.