In Rotation: Wavves and Arcade Fire

In Rotation
Melodic nostalgia and poor decision making
By Troy Farah
Published on 09/30/2010


Artist: Arcade Fire
Album: The Suburbs
Rating: 4.5/5

Continuing their obsession with neighborhoods and citizenship, Arcade Fire’s latest, The Suburbs, winds around familiar streets of escapism and nostalgia. Less gloom and more zest, it’s a departure from their more elegant Funeral and intensified Neon Bible, but retains that classic, quiet desperation that originally hooked fans.

In Rotation: Bizarre rants and insecure R&B ballads: M.I.A. and Drake

In Rotation
Bizarre rants and insecure R&B ballads
By T. Farah
Published on 08/12/2010

Artist: M.I.A.
Album: MAYA
Rating: 5/5

Maya Arulpragasam, better known as M.I.A., is the whole package. She’s got enough fashion sense to match Lady Gaga without looking trashy and bends more genres into one song than some can fit into an entire discography. M.I.A.’s latest mishmash album, MAYA, is a step up from 2007’s Kala, with 53 minutes of irritating, catchy samples and hooks that will either infect the mind or aggravate the senses.