Dan Bejar is equally prolific as he is enigmatic.  His kind of solo, kind of band project, Destroyer, has been around for ages, but really started gaining steam with his 2011 release, Kaputt, wherein he found himself writing synthy art-pop songs.  While each record has been slightly different, this has

Band of Horses stole a lot of hearts in the early aughts.  They wrote songs with big emotional peaks; dreamy falsettos and ethereal guitars eventually crashed by crunchy distortion.  Following their first few records, the band veered further from their foggy coastal sound, and into a more country aesthetic, more

Beach House have always had an uncanny knack for using mood to create a warm space; a vaporous fortress of atmospheric feelings.  The Baltimore duo are certainly great songwriters, but their real prowess lays in creating the vibe. And, boy, did they ever with their most recent double LP, Once

Pizza, Sex and Spoon....they are always good, just sometimes they are better.   Spoon has hit the career sweet spot; the sound all bands try for.  Each record sounds different, while always sounding the same. They may tilt one way or lean another but when the needle hits the groove,