An exciting release that deepens with further listens, Mothertongue is a great step forward from Muhly.

Something like the Polyphonic Spree might sound if they decided to freak out a bit more, Danielson is a whole load of friends getting together under the banner of having a good time and creating some enjoyable music.

It's fun stuff, and I imagine their live show would be even better.

Although a couple tracks towards the end don't work quite as well, it doesn't detract from the album as a whole very much.

Fans of My Morning Jacket will most likely love this release, and I'm sure those who followed Carissa's Wierd will want to hear what half of that band has been up to since calling it quits.

It's a melodic, pop album that doesn't pay attention to any typical structures or formulas, and Adam Pierce has pulled off another winner.

Quite possibly their best album.

[Tamborello is] one of the better American electronic artists in the game right now.

An ambitious, sometimes awkward mish-mash of soul-baring, ego-blaring, and everything in-between.

While it's sometimes a rambling mess, The Story Is In The Soil... sounds like one of those releases that was both cathartic and damn fun to put together.

At times outstanding and at others a bit frustrating, Slappers is a bit too uneven to be essential.

Although it's definitely a bit bi-polar, Cryptograms still gets high marks for offering up a slew of great tracks and actually gaining strength the longer it goes on.

The album just doesn't have the innovation that previous albums from Hebden have shown.

If you're curious about the group but haven't taken a chance on them yet, this is the perfect album to start.

The slight cracks that shone on Tallahassee are more visible, and unless you're a newbie to Mountain Goats lore, there probably won't be a whole lot new for you here.

Like the title suggests, this album is grand in many ways, but the sheen also wears off somewhat quickly at the same time.

The group shows that their goofy sides can peacefully coexist with their harmonious, pop-song writing ones.

One of my favorite albums so far in this very young year.

The New Year is a workman-like group, and this is yet another solid album from them.

The back two-thirds of the disc simply wanders around a bit too much, but there are still some real gems.

Taken individually, several of the tracks on the disc are the best that Gough has ever done. As a whole, the album just flows a bit inconsistently.

The brief disc contains enough gusto and punch to get your spastic swerve on heartily.

Radiohead fans will obviously want to snag it up, but if you’re looking for melancholic electronic pop, there’s much better to be found.

Somewhat hit or miss pastiche pop, Parallax Error Beheads You is harder to like that it should be.

Almost as solid as their last full-length, even as it makes a couple slight departures from their sound.

Radio-friendly pop music that sometimes sounds like Garbage, and other times even more playful.

This one plays out slowly. There's no real rhythms to speak of, and it's easily one of the more harsh releases (at times) that I've heard from the Kranky label in some time.

[Myth Takes] basically finds the group taking the best parts of their past releases and improving on them in dramatic ways.