Allah-Las | Sirenas
With Sirenas, Los Angeles quartet Allah-Las move further away from the hazy garage-pop of their early records and into a fully instrumental world of psychedelic exploration. Their sixth album was shaped by spontaneous experimentation, drawing inspiration from The Durutti Column, Popol Vuh’s Werner Herzog soundtracks, and the underwater worlds of Jacques Cousteau. Recorded in Topanga, […]
Meshell Ndegeocello | Synonym
On Synonym, Meshell Ndegeocello approaches the cover album as an act of transformation rather than nostalgia. Across 15 songs drawn from six decades of folk, soul, pop, R&B, rock, and hip-hop, familiar material is reshaped through her fluid language of jazz, funk, soul, and experimental production. The album is built around duets, pairing Ndegeocello and […]