Album Review – Page 15

EP Review: Sunflower Bean – Show Me Your Seven Secrets

March 1, 2015

By Trevor Morrison Young, NYC-based band Sunflower Bean have a lot to brag about. For one, they’re all either going to high school at this moment or they just graduated high school, were deemed the “hardest-wo...

Album Review: Father John Misty – I Love You, Honeybear

Daniel Manning

February 15, 2015

Album Review, Featured, Music

By Dan Manning At its core, Father John Misty’s I love You Honeybear is an album composed of mostly love songs (as its title implies). It tells the story of how Misty, or Josh Tillman, came to meet, fall in lo...

Album Review: Mount Eerie – Sauna

Trevor Morrison

February 11, 2015

Album Review, Albums You Might Hear This Week, Featured, Music

By Trevor Morrison How frightening is the thought of your own death, alone, in remote wilderness with only a barely flickering fire to keep you company? Not a soul is near. You are alone. There’s snow on the g...

Album Review: Viet Cong – Viet Cong

Daniel Manning

February 4, 2015

Album Review, Featured, Music

By Dan Manning Viet Cong's self-titled LP opens with an immense, industrial booming, as if someone at the other end of the factory is banging their head against a stack of the heaviest sheet metal. The opening...

Album Review: Björk – Vulnicura

Trevor Morrison

January 27, 2015

Album Review, Featured, Music

By Trevor Morrison The break up album has been made time and time again, basically since famous composers were professionally making music. Breakups are inevitable most of the time and can wreak havoc on the l...

Album Review: Two Inch Astronaut – “Foulbrood”

Ryan King

January 15, 2015

Album Review, Music

By Louie Durango, DJ Famous Warrior Two Inch Astronaut’s latest album, Foulbrood is one loaded with infectious melody channeled through ferocious riffs and lyrical apathy. They apply the interchanging dynamic o...

Best Albums, Songs & Items of 2014 by WHUS Staff

WHUS Staff

December 15, 2014

Album Review

Hey there readers, DJ Expensive Haircut here, AKA Trevor Morrison, the WHUS Music Director. It's that time of year again - the second annual Best Of 2014 blog post! Last year's was a success, so I thought that ...

Album Review: James Farm – “City Folk”

Trevor Morrison

December 11, 2014

Album Review

James Farm – City Folk - Nonesuch By Chris Colgan James Farm’s City Folk is definitely an album that captures the simpler, yet beautifully melodic side of jazz quartets of its kind. It opens with “Two Steps”, ...

Album Review: Marianne Faithfull – “Give My Love To London”

Trevor Morrison

November 15, 2014

Album Review, Music

Marianne Faithfull - Give My Love To London - Dramatico Records by Shaine Scarminach Among the waves of new, hip, and cool washing over music this year, a few cultural stalwarts also chose to cast anchor: Leona...

Album Review: Celestial Shore- “Enter Ghost”

Daniel Manning

November 10, 2014

Album Review, Music

It's hard to place Celestial Shore's most recent effort into any particular musical box. "Enter Ghost" is equal parts post punk as it is math rock as it is noodly indie rock. The album's opening track starts of...