A (quick) critical rundown on three recent albums.
Occasionally, Entertainment Weekly publishes short reviews on some of the best records of the month.
Today’s edition tackles the latest from U.S.
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Girls, Grimes, and King Krule.
Girls Heavy Light
Meg Remy wrote the last six U.S.
Girls albums through the lens of other characters.
WithHeavy Light, she shines the spotlight on herself.
What color was your childhood bedroom?).
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King Krule Man Alive!
Krule’s sound also seems to defy almost every sensical definition; is it lounge punk?
Lullabies for goth insomniacs?
There’s something enveloping about his dense, churning compositions, like falling into a sonic cement mixer.
But it can be exhausting a bleakness that begs, eventually, for a little fresh air.
