The Edit

Album reviews and features from our editorial team. Honest criticism, deep dives, and the records that matter.

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Reset
8.4
Must Listen

Reset

Crosswinds
Conceived across the Atlantic between Manchester and Kingston, Ontario, Crosswinds deliver a debut that channels Steely Dan sophistication through a Neil Young heart — eclectic, immaculate, and utterly their own.
Joe Morrison · Progressive Pop · 2019
Brothers
7.4

Brothers

The Black Keys
The Akron duo polished their blues-rock sound to a gleaming sheen with mixed but mostly satisfying results.
Joe Morrison · Blues Rock · 2010
The Moon & Antarctica
8.2
Must Listen

The Moon & Antarctica

Modest Mouse
Isaac Brock stared into the void and the void wrote him a sprawling, brilliant, uneven masterpiece.
Joe Morrison · Indie Rock · 2000
Slanted and Enchanted
8.5
Must Listen

Slanted and Enchanted

Pavement
The lo-fi benchmark that proved you could be brilliant and sound like you did not care at the same time.
Joe Morrison · Lo-Fi · 1992
Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
9.1
Must Listen

Yankee Hotel Foxtrot

Wilco
The album a major label rejected and a sister label released became the defining American rock record of the new century.
Joe Morrison · Alt-Country · 2002
Lost in the Dream
7.6

Lost in the Dream

The War on Drugs
Adam Granduciel channels Springsteen through a haze of reverb and anxiety on a beautiful but overlong third album.
Joe Morrison · Indie Rock · 2014
In Rainbows
9.4
Must Listen

In Rainbows

Radiohead
Radiohead remembered they were a rock band and made their warmest, most human record.
Joe Morrison · Art Rock · 2007
Currents
8.7
Must Listen

Currents

Tame Impala
Kevin Parker traded his guitar pedals for synthesizers and made the most ambitious breakup album of the decade.
Joe Morrison · Psychedelic Pop · 2015
Fleet Foxes
8.3
Must Listen

Fleet Foxes

Fleet Foxes
Sun-drenched harmonies and pastoral beauty that made folk music feel urgent again.
Joe Morrison · Indie Folk · 2008
For Emma, Forever Ago
8.6
Must Listen

For Emma, Forever Ago

Bon Iver
A cabin in Wisconsin, a broken heart, and a falsetto that turned isolation into art.
Joe Morrison · Indie Folk · 2007
High Violet
7.8

High Violet

The National
A gorgeous, brooding record that occasionally struggles under the weight of its own elegance.
Joe Morrison · Indie Rock · 2010
Funeral
8.9
Must Listen

Funeral

Arcade Fire
A communal howl against death and suburban emptiness that turned indie rock into a stadium affair.
Joe Morrison · Indie Rock · 2004
Loveless
9.7
Must Listen

Loveless

My Bloody Valentine
The album that nearly bankrupted a label and redefined what a guitar could sound like.
Joe Morrison · Shoegaze · 1991
In the Aeroplane Over the Sea
9.2
Must Listen

In the Aeroplane Over the Sea

Neutral Milk Hotel
A haunted, horn-drenched fever dream that became the unlikely sacred text of indie music.
Joe Morrison · Indie Folk · 1998
The Queen Is Dead
9.6
Must Listen

The Queen Is Dead

The Smiths
The record where Morrissey and Marr achieved a perfect, furious symbiosis that has never been equalled.
Joe Morrison · Indie Rock · 1986
Doolittle
9.3
Must Listen

Doolittle

Pixies
Fifteen tracks of controlled chaos that taught a generation how to be quiet and then very, very loud.
Joe Morrison · Alternative Rock · 1989
Definitely Maybe
8.8
Must Listen

Definitely Maybe

Oasis
Before the feuds and the excess, there was this: a debut so confident it practically dared you not to believe.
Joe Morrison · Britpop · 1994
Two Star & the Dream Police
8.7
Must Listen

Two Star & the Dream Police

Mk.gee
A breakout debut that rewrites the guitar album for the streaming age — all texture, all feel, all dream.
Joe Morrison · Alternative R&B/Art Pop · 2024
Is This It
9.0
Must Listen

Is This It

The Strokes
Five guys from New York made rock music sound dangerous again with nothing but cheap amps and perfect songs.
Joe Morrison · Garage Rock Revival · 2001
AM
8.4
Must Listen

AM

Arctic Monkeys
Sheffield lads ditch the anoraks for leather jackets and make their most seductive record.
Joe Morrison · Indie Rock · 2013
What's Wrong With New York?
7.8

What's Wrong With New York?

The Dare
A debut that runs on nightclub fumes and shameless hedonism — part throwaway, part essential, entirely New York.
Joe Morrison · Synth-Pop/Electro-Punk · 2024
Nevermind
9.5
Must Listen

Nevermind

Nirvana
The record that detonated the mainstream and rewired a generation overnight.
Joe Morrison · Grunge · 1991
OK Computer
9.8
Must Listen

OK Computer

Radiohead
The album that turned a guitar band into prophets of the digital age.
Joe Morrison · Alternative Rock · 1997
Getting Killed
9.1
Must Listen

Getting Killed

Geese
Brooklyn's most fearless band delivers an album that sounds like five records happening at once — and somehow all of them are brilliant.
Joe Morrison · Art Rock · 2025