This is an enjoyable and energetic collection of well sheened tracks that hit the spot with some lovely dynamics.

This record is quietly anxious, earnestly calm and wistfully hopeful. It’s a sigh of acceptance. It’s simultaneously serene and sorrowful in equal measure.

My wife just asked me a minute ago (on a lovely Saturday afternoon in So. Cal) what I was writing. I told her, without looking up from my outline,”I am writing a review of a great band called Monsters Build Mean Robots.” She sort of rolled her eyes at …

A lazy reviewer will listen to the album to which they have been assigned, and try to think of what clichés will fit it. This usually comes in the form of “a stunning return to form”, a phrase used every time Madonna releases an album (which begs the q …