Author: pitchfork

Up to this point, there have been three aspects of the Radar Bros. that have remained fairly consistent. For one, there’s singer Jim Putnam, who’s been at the controls during the past two decades of frequent lineup...

Few would deny that Dan “the Automator” Nakamura makes records sound great. Over a career spanning two decades, he’s worked on albums by artists such as Gorillaz, Prince Paul, Del Tha Funkee Homosapien, and...

Last year’s praise of Frank Ocean’s Channel Orange scarcely mentioned the album’s star utility player, co-producer, and multi-instrumentalist Malay, or the song that Frank didn’t write. Channel...

Though Wimps’ Repeat is slathered in bright, bubbly punk hooks, the world they present in their lyrics is dismal. People are boring. Work sucks. The only break from this banal place is sleeping. Their song “Hello...

FaltyDL, aka New York producer Drew Lustman, is good at calling it. His last full-length, 2011’s You Stand Uncertain was exactly that. While there were flickers of sure blue sky, most notably on “Waited...