As we narrow down our Top 50 Albums of 2024, here’s a preview of a dozen or so epic new releases still to come between now and Election Day.
Album Reviews
We waited 30 years for a new album by these synth pop legends, so why wait another few months for it to come out? Popdose presents a very advance review of Propaganda’s self-titled third album due in October.
As a public service, we’re gonna take a sneak peek at what’s coming, while celebrating what’s already here — the year’s best albums (so far).
It’s been quite a few years since we heard from our friends, The Blood Rush Hour. This fine New Jersey-oriented musical aggregate, directed by the brilliant mind of Robert DeStefano…
“Hackney Diamonds” by The Rolling Stones does not disappoint with big, radio-friendly songs…and bluesy numbers, too.
On his seventh solo album, prog multi-instrumentalist and mixing wizard Steven Wilson explores moments in life on a never-ending staircase.
Third time’s a charm for Madison Cunningham’s “Revealer”
Dirty Honey pay homage to their hard rock musical heroes on their debut album.
“The Future Bites” by Steven Wilson continues his critique of a crazy little thing called the internet.
Of all the young Americana bands offering big choruses and group harmonies, Dustbowl Revival has them beat by a mile.
Hotspot is a solid album that, maddeningly, feels like a slight disappointment only because of how impossibly high the Pet Shop Boys have set the bar.
Hide Your Ghost, the sophomore album from singer-songwriter Sawyer Fredericks, sheds the high gloss major label treatment, and plays closer to Fredericks’s honest, stripped down style – a self-described ”free…
Moon is chiming echo-laden guitar, post rock bass, propulsive drumming, shifting time signatures, and haunting, ethereal vocals. Formed in 2010, the Chicago-based trio (David Azizinamini – guitars and vocals; Chris…
Frozen Flowers Curse The Day is the latest release from pioneering avant-guitarist Robert Poss, a founding member of the legendary wall-of-guitars group, Band Of Susans. The album was performed, recorded…
The Imperial Sound’s blithe synthesis of 21st-century irony and bright, unselfconscious AM-radio pop is both brave and unique. This, their debut album, The New (hence, the title), showcases songwriter Frederick…
This is a rare and wonderful treat for us – and you. Not only do you have a review here for the brand-new album from the multi-talented Django Haskins, entitled…
Many of Bailey’s 80s-era peers have been trying to write songs this good as far back as 1984, and here he is, 34 years later, besting them at the top of their game. They must be furious.
This is the debut album from Philadelphia-based sextet, The Naked Sun, a band who began their quest for “honest rock” in 2011; after a 2013 E.P., Space, Place and Time,…
The idea of an orchestral album by Midge Ure isn’t a question of when, but rather why it took this long for it to happen.
Once again, historian/author/film producer and Memphian Robert Gordon delivers a book about the music of his hometown; a musical spectrum that spans wide and deep. Along with that book, Memphis…
Give David Myhr’s Lucky Day a chance and it will reward you in return.
The new record from the Norwegian composer Kaada is a beautiful thing, immense in scope yet startlingly intimate. But, while it plays on a theme — Death; the record, after…
Frog Eyes’ frontman Carey Mercer has said Violet Psalms — the band’s goodbye record, out late last week on Paper Bag — was written and recorded like a debut, ”when…
Another new, upcoming young voice, Danielle Cormier, 21, is a singer-songwriter who she credits her love for the arts from seeing her first Broadway show at five years old. She…
From the early notes of ”Failed Celestial Creatures” — the meditative, 20-minute-long title track to the unanticipated debut collaboration between guitar-composer David Grubbs and Japanese musician Taku Unami, out Friday…
This new album from Jodee Lewis, Buzzard’s Bluff is a cathartic release from deep within the Missouri Ozarks. It draws inspiration from growing up in a small town, the trials…
As pig-fuck goes, this is some of the best. For those just tuning in, pig-fuck is the unfortunately titled genre of explosive post-punk that, at first, was cut in Chicago…
Accord, New York’s Tulula! has been stomping around Rip Van Winkle’s dreamland since 2006. The acid-cowboy quintet of Jason Broome (The Westport Sunrise Sessions), Rob Norris (East Of Venus, The…
I know it’s utterly blasphemous to suggest in underground circles, but my first point of entry when listening to Dylan Carlson’s new ”Conquistador,” the title track to a series of…