Album Of The Week: Beverly Careers

I won't lie: This was a rough week. Some weeks are rough because there are so many great albums that, when I pick one, I'm doing a disservice to all the others. And then some weeks are rough because there's just nothing going on. This is one of those weeks. We haven't seen a release date this barren since January, and I can't even imagine why that would be the case. When it's like that, you can go a couple of directions. You can venture far afield from your usual chosen genres and find something that works amazingly on its own terms. This wasn't the week for that; Trey Songz' Trigga and Robin Thicke's Paula were not exactly waiting around to kick my ass. So instead, we're going the other direction: Finding an album that fits squarely into the sort of thing Stereogum usually covers, but which would've probably flown under the radar during a more packed week. And that's why this week's Album Of The Week is Careers, the pleasant but slight debut from the Brooklyn duo Beverly.