In this week’s slate of Rolling Stone reviews, Rob Sheffield raves about Wild Flag’s debut album, which he says “tops anyone’s wildest hopes” for the supergroup featuring members of Sleater-Kinney and Helium and punches “about fucking time buttons” for anyone into bad-ass guitar rock. Also, Will Hermes praises Strange Mercy, the “busily inventive” third album by St. Vincent, David Fricke gives a thumbs up to Primus’ first new record in over a decade, and Jon Dolan digs the second album by the British duo Slow Club, which “bridges the twee whimsy of Belle and Sebastian and the garage-y primacy of early Yeah Yeah Yeahs.”
ALBUMS
Wild Flag – Wild Flag (stream one song)
St. Vincent – Strange Mercy (stream one song)
Primus – Green Naugahyde (stream one song)
Lady Antebellum – Own the Night (stream one song)
Slow Club – Paradise (stream one song)
Katy B – On A Mission (stream one song)
Das Racist – Relax (stream one song)
Neon Indian – Era Extrana (stream one song)
The Jayhawks – Mockingbird Time (stream full album)
Alice Cooper – Welcome 2 My Nightmare (stream one song)
Bush – The Sea of Memories (stream one song)
Blitzen Trapper – American Goldwing (stream one song)
Trombone Shorty – For True (stream one song)
Jimi Hendrix – Hendrix in the West (reissue) (stream one song)
Jimi Hendrix – Winterland (reissue) (stream one song)
SONGS
Ryan Adams “Lucky Now” (stream)
Deer Tick “Miss K” (stream)