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September 30, 2016The third Bon Iver album is a fractured, electronically altered future folk album that's beautiful and strange at once.
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September 30, 2016The thoughtful Southern rockers deliver an impassioned and troubled State of the Union message on their 11th studio album.
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September 30, 2016The indie rock legends' first album with bassist Paz Lenchantin features some of their friendliest, jangliest songs yet.
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September 30, 2016The iconic singer's first new material in four years is a slow-burning collection presented with attentiveness and finesse.
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September 30, 2016Strings ranging from a small ensemble to full orchestra mark Spektor's reflective but still whimsical seventh studio album.
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September 30, 2016The bittersweet final album from the Jacksonville band that devastates with emotion and nostalgia, both a gift and perfect farewell to fans.
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September 30, 2016The duo's third album in three years adds more keyboards and drums to the mix without losing any of their restrained autumnal brilliance.
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September 30, 2016Solid East-meets-Midwest hip-hop collaboration between Brooklyn MC Skyzoo and Detroit beatmaker Apollo Brown.
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September 30, 2016Laying herself bare with unflinching honestly and vulnerability, the alt-pop singer presents a sacrificial broken heart on The Altar.
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September 30, 2016The blues punk's third solo outing is fiery, dynamic, and more varied than his earlier works.
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September 30, 2016The Swedish band's 12th studio album balances their prog rock persona with elements from their musical past to travel in new directions.
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September 30, 2016After two of its members scored the hit Netflix series Stranger Things, Austin synth wizards S U R V I V E deliver their first album for Relapse.
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September 30, 2016Artful post-punk jangle meets Athens-inspired college rock from this crafty Atlanta-based quintet.
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September 30, 201618 albums in, these veteran prog rockers prove they have plenty left in the tank by delivering their best recording since 2004's Marbles.
The Last of Us [Original Video Game Soundtrack]
June 10, 2013
This is a new chapter for the composer; it's the first time he's written a score for a video game. 30 brief are mostly sparse, haunting sketches using the guitar as the central instrument, with various keyboards illuminating his evocative melodies. There are also several intense, percussion-heavy tracks including the title theme. Santaolalla delivers the sound of a post-apocalyptic world: sinister, tragic, and foreboding, yet not without hope--no mean feat.
1984
All of Mercyful Fate's potential was fulfilled on Don't Break the Oath, a doomy, gothic collection of post-Priest/Maiden dark metal preoccupied with Satan and the occult. Fate's sound and attitude were highly influential on later gothic/black metal bands, especially in Europe, and Don't Break the Oath consistently encapsulates their appeal.
