The duo that make up MGMT are no longer starry-eyed undergrads. It’s been 17 years, to be exact, since their first project, “Oracular Spectacular.” Gone are those salad days of electric feels and poppy, psych-club hits. That much is apparent in their fifth studio album, “Loss of Life.” They’ve traded […]
Author: Jacob Batista
Yeat orchestrates futuristic storyline in new album
The album cover and, as such, the music of Yeat’s new album “2093” is evocative of your typical Batman-esque protagonist. This image is completed with moral ambiguity and neon lights cutting through smokestacks, careening off draping leather coats. Only Yeat isn’t so much the hero of this story. He’s somewhere […]
New brilliant film transports viewers to ‘The Promised Land’
Things rarely turn out the way we want them, and even less so for our protagonist, Ludvig Kahlen, played by Mads Mikkelsen, in the new film “The Promised Land.” The brazenly stoic war hero, now an impoverished farmer, comes home to cultivate the vacant, sterile and unkind heath, otherwise known […]