Author: pitchfork

At 25, English singer-songwriter Kate Nash is still figuring out what she likes musically and, most of all, who she is. She’s doing what most artists who became famous at a young age eventually do, which is to say that she’s...

A few years ago, a micro-scene started brewing in the UK, centered on a loose collection of friendly, lo-fi-leaning rock bands. This cohort was best represented on the 2010 compilation PVI0006/IBB004, jointly released by...

As much as listeners strive to seek out and reward bands that are truly original, there’s a sense that complaining about derivative music is an ultimately futile affair, on par with doing the same about traffic, exorbitant...

German death metal quartet Defeated Sanity have not strayed from their formula on their fourth album, Passages Into Deformity. They’re still a hybrid of early Cryptopsy’s blinding technicality and Suffocation’s...

In the handful of years they’ve been making music together as Javelin, pop collagists (and real life cousins) George Langford and Tom Van Buskirk have never been afraid to push their luck. With their irreverently fun,...