Visions , Boucher's third LP out Feb. 21, is first with the prominent indie label 4AD. It features psychedelic and dreamy dance-pop that begs for the subwoofer to be turned all the way up. It's all grounded in her voice, which leaps easily into a lofty...

It's like a nice bath, but no pruny hands. There are a lot of comparisons to the Cocteau Twins going around but I don't think that's exactly apt. The vocal stylings are similar but nowhere near as otherworldly as Liz Frasier, and from what I can tell,...

But the bent, haunting string arrangement behind “For 12” is so audibly in debt to Kid A-era Radiohead and the dour, New Wave-informed romanticism of the title track so audibly appreciative of the original, gloomy Factory and 4AD (yes, 4AD again)...

After all, those firms are in the business of selling art -- or, at the very least, self-expression. In fact, cool, you could even say indie, digs might be seen as part of the formula. "I think the important thing is to reflect taste," says Annie Clark,...

Frankie Rose has sounded like a woman on a quest. The onetime member of Dum Dum Girls and Vivian Girls' self-titled 2010 debut (made with her touring band, the Outs), found the former queen of Brooklyn lo-fi making sense of her more recent,...

Lyrical preoccupations run the thematic gamut from A to B: These are songs of death, despair and unfulfilled longing rendered on a slate gray emotional canvas. At times, “Funeral Blues” feels like the exact inverse of a motivational speech. (Courtesy...