The Welsh group Los Campesinos! released their first two pop-tastic albums about eight months apart, both back in 2008, and now, after a year and a half of much anticipation (at least for me), their third record Romance is Boring has finally arrived. But as its first track indicates, if you haven’t heard much from [...]

It seems nearly every review I’ve read of local band Shark Speed compares them to the Seattle-based indie group Minus the Bear. And for the most part, it’s a comparison I get. I hear the strong similarities, for example, between Shark Speed vocalist Thayne Fagg and Jake Snider of Minus the Bear. Both bands also [...]

Vampire Weekend’s second album Contra was released on January 12th, almost two years (to the date) after the release of their self-titled debut.
Contra starts off with exactly what we’d expect from a Vampire Weekend trip to the beach. And it’s true, “Horchata” basically treads the same cracked pavement and sand that swept so [...]

Poison gas clouds, a profusion of explosions, people getting assassinated — such is the imagery John Mayer invokes on his latest release, Battle Studies. What could cause these scenes of terror and confusion? The answer appears to be love.
At age 32, Mayer has apparently amassed enough experiences in courting women to corroborate Pat Benatar’s [...]

We haven’t done a ton of album reviews yet here at Rhombus, so we’re still throwing different things at the wall to see what sticks. For Imagine Dragons’ self-titled EP, we decided to have two of our contributors, Scott Manning and William Sutton, offer their thoughts on the disc, in order to provide you with [...]