Friko
Something Worth Waiting For
Chicago’s Friko has traded much of the symphonics of their incendiary debut for insistently straining, freewheeling indie rock riffs
The Line Of Best Fit
Foo Fighters
Your Favorite Toy
Enjoyable and familiar, but Grohl's emotional crisis sets it apart
Consequence Of Sound
Friko
Something Worth Waiting For
It’s hard to replicate the joy of discovery that was had with Friko’s debut, but rounding out the band and taking things up a notch make perfect sense. Not leaving their heart behind in the process, makes Something Worth Waiting For exactly that
Under The Radar
Friko
Something Worth Waiting For
A euphoric, breakneck adventure towards a promised land
The Skinny
Ringo Starr
Long Long Road
You'd have to go back to the 1970s to find a Ringo Starr solo album that was as well-crafted with his particular skills in mind as Look Up, and Long Long Road shows Burnett and Starr continue to work together beautifully
All Music
Ringo Starr
Long Long Road
It’s rooted squarely in country music, with a nod to Americana
Hot Press
Ringo Starr
Long Long Road
It has indeed been a “long, long road,” and the thing worth celebrating is that an 85-year-old man with all the money in the world still enjoys that old-timey Americana music enough to make more of it. This album is a nice window into that joy
Far Out
Ringo Starr
Long Long Road
It is also, for all the Americana, an incredibly Merseyside record
The Arts Desk
Ringo Starr
Long Long Road
Throughout, Starr’s drumming is reliably great, and while he may indeed have travelled a long long road, here he sounds 85 years young
Mojo
Ringo Starr
Long Long Road
The title track ends proceedings on a high, with Sheryl Crow on backing vocals, a smattering of mandolin and a semi-surreal spoken interlude in which Starr sounds ever so zen. It ends, as it surely should, with a single snare shot, delivered like the most emphatic of full stops. Print edition only
Uncut
Foo Fighters
Your Favorite Toy
The carefree attitude is a welcoming change, but there is a sense something has been left on the table
The Arts Desk
Jessie Ware
Superbloom
Superbloom — the next installment in Jessie Ware’s exploration of disco — is certainly a good time, though perhaps not as transformative as its predecessors
Spectrum Culture