

“Underwater Boi” submerges a sweet shoegaze tune in cartoonish atmospherics. “Don’t Play” outfits hard-core punk with South American rhythms “Alien Love Call” cribs a drum pattern from the Isley Brothers’ “Footsteps in the Dark” and serves guest vocals from Dev Hynes of Blood Orange, in a first for Turnstile. None of these excursions undercuts the power and intensity of the record, though. On Glow On, Turnstile stretches out but never softens up.

Songwrights Apothecary Lab - the eighth album from vocalist, bassist, and producer Esperanza Spalding - is the rare release whose title lays out its purpose. The culmination of years of musings on the healing properties of music, Lab offers a dozen shiftless, restless compositions, each with its own unique holistic objective.
