Ian Cohen

2 weeks ago | pitchfork.com | Ian Cohen

By my count, only one song on Home Is Where’s third album mentions an Elvis impersonator dying in a car crash. I bring this up because, if we’re to take frontperson Bea MacDonald at her word, Hunting Season is a concept record of 13 songs where 13 Elvis impersonators die in a 13-car pileup. Then again, The Whaler wasn’t really about 9/11 nor was I Became Birds really about Scientology, as the band has claimed.

2 weeks ago | flipboard.com | Ian Cohen

By my count, only one song on Home Is Where’s third album mentions an Elvis impersonator dying in a car crash. I bring this up because, if we’re to take frontperson Bea MacDonald at her word, Hunting Season is a concept record of 13 songs where 13 Elvis impersonators die in a 13-car pileup. Then …

1 month ago | pitchfork.com | Ian Cohen

caroline 2 aptly embodies sequel-ese: bolder, brighter, more accessible, and more ambitious all at once. Yet for all of its refinement and progress, caroline 2 allows its creators to fully embrace their role as UK post-rock’s preeminent sentimentalists. From the very beginning, the songs of the London octet have contained a sense of earnest wonder: Early single “Good Morning (Red)” was initially inspired by some members’ political awakening while canvassing for the Labour Party in 2017.

1 month ago | pitchfork.com | Ian Cohen

No verdict in the court of public opinion could be harsher than the one Arcade Fire have rendered upon themselves: They’ve created their own prison with Pink Elephant, a vow of penance that spends 42 minutes equivocating and demurring, against their every impulse to do the opposite. Win Butler is barely audible for the first half of lead single “Year of the Snake.” The album rollout has not inspired any credulous Hollywood Reporter profiles, interactive music videos, or fake websites.

1 month ago | flipboard.com | Ian Cohen

Sleep Token are on course to score their first number one album on the UK and US charts with Even In Arcadia, out-selling Arcade Fire and Radiohead's Thom YorkeSleep Token look set to land their first number one album in the UK and US, with Even In Arcadia currently the biggest-selling new release on the …