Aviary is one of the few chamber pop albums that challenges metal records for sheer volume, and the band recreated that elated wall live.

This isn’t an album to solve, it’s meant to get lost in.

Given the hullabaloo surrounding the high concepts on Julia Holter's records, you'd think she was no fun at all.

[xrr rating=4.0/5]Julia Holter’s third record, Loud City Song, is an aural conundrum, an album that does not lend itself willingly to assessment. Whether on your first spin or your 10th, what stands out is how truly incomparable it is. On second thought, maybe one could use the solo albums of Nico as a reference point, not so much in a …

(Photo: Samantha Whitehorne. Front Page Photo: Peter Hutchins) A Sigur Rós concert in 2012 is a very different affair than one from 10 years ago. Although the band’s sound has remained more or less constant, the mysterious aspect that once clung close to the group like an Icelandic ice floe has been whittled away via song licensing to soundtracks and …

[xrr rating=4.0/5]A few weeks ago, I read the following dashed-off comparison on someone’s blog: “Julia Holter > Grimes.” It’s the kind of flippant and puckish, but doubtlessly genuine, statement that embodies the worst and best of music discourse on the internet. On the one hand, it gives the false impression that we need to choose between these two artists, and …