By: Deb Chachra

I thought I had imagined the New Pornographers.

By: David Levine

David Levine on FEVER TO TELL

By: Gordon Dahlquist

A singer lucidly stranded between how smart she is and how often her smarts haven’t helped her.

By: Carl Wilson

We tilted against received falsehoods, but what would it actually mean to be free of them?

By: Kaleb Horton

Kaleb Horton on STREETCORE

By: Jessamyn West

Jessamyn West on ALL HAIL WEST TEXAS

By: Erin M. Routson

It was so noisy, crunchy and abrasive, but I was hooked.

By: Erik Davis

Erik Davis on DOPESMOKER

By: Tom Nealon

Written in the wake of 9/11, it feels what we all felt.

By: Jason Cohen

Jason Cohen on IS THIS IT

By: Jenny Davidson

“I can get a straight job/done it before/Never minded working hard/it’s who I’m working for”

By: Matthew De Abaitua

I fall in and out of love with it on every listen. Sometimes, I hate it.

By: Crystal Durant

YELL, IT WILL MAKE YOU FEEL BETTER!

By: Lauren Oliver

Lauren Oliver on SOUND-DUST

By: Judith Zissman

The messy broken bits of TALLAHASSEE are still the ones I love most.