Album Review: Disclosure - Caracal
By Jonathan Fuchs, Contributor [Island; 2015] Rating: 3.5/5 Key Tracks: “Nocturnal,” “Holding On,” “Hourglass” In just two years, UK dance duo Disclosure has shaped the faces of the pop and EDM genres by headlining music festivals worldwide, inspiring other DJs and producers like Rudimental with heavy UK garage sound, and being partly responsible for the extremely successful career of Sam Smith. The most shocking part is that all of this was done in one album, Disclosure’s 20
Group Feature: Bands We Pretend to Like Because We Think We Should
In the realm of alternative and subversive music lovers, there's a strange, unspoken rule about tirelessly defending and worshipping a certain class of bands. If you happen to feel contrary to the worship of these particular bands and artists, it becomes a precarious situation in which you feel as if you cannot say a single bad word about the artist without becoming a social pariah or losing some of your "hip cred," whatever the hell that means. I think it comes down to the f
