The Lumineers, Automatic ⭐️⭐️⭐️❌❌ Folk revivalists, The Lumineers, are back with a new record. I’ve gotta be honest with ya, I didn’t even realize they were still a band. I figured this was a sentiment shared by most, but I did a little research, and it turns out they are still hugely popular. So, just one of those moments where I feel like I’ve been living under a rock. This is pretty much what I would expect an album from The Lumineers to sound like, even all these years later. I felt like I was transported back to high school....

Sharon Van Etten, Sharon Van Etten & The Attachment Theory ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️❌ Sharon Van Etten is back with a new album. This is her first featuring her new band, The Attachment Theory. Before I get into, let preface it by saying that overall I enjoyed this album, but this is very much a tale of two sides of an album.  What I mean by that is the first side is pretty much exclusively melancholic, reverb drenched, sad indie music. Which is fine, but I was starting to squirm a little. There didn’t seem to be much variety, and frankly I was...

The Weeknd, Hurry Up Tomorrow ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️❌ I’m not even gonna lie, I expected the worst here. At first glance you’ll notice that this album is absolutely packed to the gills. 22 songs at 1 hour and 25 minutes. Ridiculous. A lot of room for filler and fat. Mix that with the fact that The Weeknd is coming off of his horrible television show, The Idol, that he co-created, and your expectations can’t help but be a little dampened. But as it turns out, this is a great example of “Don’t judge a book by its cover.” The album starts off...

Matt Berry, Heard Noises ⭐️⭐️❌❌❌ What We Do In the Shadows fans still mourning the end of the show may take solace in the fact that Matt Berry, the regular human musician, has released a new album. This is his tenth studio album, and sees him wearing his 1960s psychedelic pop/rock influence on his sleeve. This album has some great instrumentation, and of course Matt Berry has a great, recognizable voice. But much like the albums that inspired this one, I find it shallow. There’s a lot of cliches in this pastiche sound, which is to be expected, but it’s...