Brief Encounters
Brief Encounters: New Albums 10-8-21 – 10-14-21 Reviewed
reflexively simple on the surface so you can’t miss the song of the song
Brief Encounters: New Albums 10-1-21 – 10-7-21 Reviewed
beautiful sung and energetic sad song
Brief Encounters: New Albums 9-24-21 – 9-30-21 Reviewed
an 80s style beauty
Brief Encounters: New Albums 9-17-21 – 9-23-21 Reviewed
starts with a bang and gets slowly darker and darker
Brief Encounters: New Album Releases 9-10-21 – 9-16-21 Reviewed
¿No preferirías tener el modelo de este año?
Brief Encounters: New Album Releases 9-3-21 – 9-9-21 Reviewed
zigging towards promiscuity and zagging towards true love
Brief Encounters: New Album Releases 8-27-21 – 9-2-21 Reviewed
from doubt to deliverance
Brief Encounters: New Albums 8-20-21 – 8-26-21 Reviewed
left off blackgaze for a fuller and more beautiful sound
Brief Encounters: New Albums 8-13-21 – 8-19-21 Reviewed
complete infatuation
Brief Encounters: New Album Release 8-6-21 – 8-12-21 Reviewed
an unwavering collection of great doo wop
Brief Encounters: New Albums 8-6-21 – 8-12-21
indie rock of the first order
Brief Encounters: New Albums 7-23-21 – 7-29-21 Reviewed
no catharsis and only darkness visible on an industrial rock hybrid
Brief Encounters: New Album Releases 7-9-21 – 7-15-21 Reviewed
rap for art’s sake
Brief Encounters: New Albums 7-2-21 – 7-8-21 Reviewed
One of the best hip hop albums of the year
Brief Encounters: New Album Releases 6-25-21 – 7-1-21 Reviewed
really gorgeous lover’s rock plus reggae bands
Brief Encounters: New Albums 6-18-21 – 6-24-21 Reviewed
“Brothers, why we fighting each other?”
Brief Encounters: New Albums 6-11-21 – 6-17-21 Reviewed
I am not a religious man but I can understand religion
Brief Encounters: New Album Releases 6-4-21 – 6-10-21
pray towards Mecca between rehearsals
Brief Encounters: New Albums 5-28-21 – 6-3-21 Reviewed
veers between post-punk and experimental art rock and math rock
Brief Encounters: New Albums 5-21-21 – 5-27-21 Reviewed
One word, ten letters
Brief Encounters: New Album Releases 5-14-21 – 5-20-21 Reviewed
on her way to legend status
Brief Encounters: New Albums 5-7-21 – 5-13-21 Reviewed
the equal of all but the best of his 90s material
Brief Encounters: New Albums 4-30-21 – 5-6-21 Reviewed
finds the pleasure points and presses them
Brief Encounters: Top New Albums 4-23-21 – 4-29-21 Reviewed
an excellent and let’s hope not final release
Brief Encounters: New Albums 4-16-21 – 4-22-18 Reviewed
hardcore meets hyperpop
Brief Encounters: Top New Albums 4-9-21 – 4-15-21 Reviewed
they are what youth in 2021 is
Brief Encounters: New Album Releases 4-2-21 – 4-8-21 Reviewed
Pains Of meets Roger McGuinn meets Tom Petty meets Bob Dylan
Brief Encounters: New Albums 3-26-21 – 4-1-21 Reviewed
a month before Harvest dropped
Brief Encounters: New Albums 3-19-21 – 3-25-21 Reviewed
21 songs must be heard and memorable
Brief Encounters: New Albums 3-12-21 – 3-18-21 Reviewed
very dramatic Indie rock
Brief Encounters: New Album Releases 3-5-21 – 3-11-21 Reviewed
outrageously gifted pop star
Brief Encounters: New Recordings 2-26-21 – 3-4-21Reviewed
reneges on god (the big oblivion) for sex (the little oblivion)
Brief Encounters: New Album Releases 2-19-21- 2-25-21 Reviewed
a synth and an 808 and Lael’s voice
Brief Encounters: New Albums 2-12-21 – 2- 18-21 Reviewed
hard rock classicists
Brief Encounters: Top New Albums 2-5-21 – 2-11-21
A contender for album of the year
Brief Encounters: Top Albums 1-29-21 – 2-4-21 Reviewed
a spiritual awakening without the god
Brief Encounters: Top Albums 1-15-21 – 1-21-21 Reviewed
I can’t get up, I won’t get up
Brief Encounters: New Albums 1-8-21 – 1-14-21 Reviewed
smudges his son Justin’s impeccable Americana
Brief Encounters: Top New Album Releases 1-1-21 – 1-7-21 Reviewed
absolutely magnificent
Brief Encounters: Top Album Releases 12-25-20 – 12-31-20 Reviewed
discharges the last remnants of pop music and finds its eternal faith
Brief Encounters: Top New Releases 12-18-20 – 12-24-20 Reviewed
Volume Two has a lot to prove and for the most part does so
Brief Encounters: New Albums 12-11-20 – 12-17-20 Reviewed
James Blake on top
Brief Encounters: New Albums 12-4-20 – 12-10-12 Reviewed
Out of prison and in the charts
Brief Encounters: New Albums 11-27-20 – 12-3-20 Reviewed
everything you need