Social Gravy A Different Kind Independent If you have any grievances with quality pop/rock akin to Coldplay or say, even Dawes, you may freely skip this review. You see, [...]
Oh Susanna Sleepy Little Sailor (Deluxe Edition) MVKA Deception can be an art, and sometimes, that is for the best. This is particularly true of those [...]
Waxfeet Dream Independent Back in the late ‘90s and the beginning of the 2000s, those lucky enough to catch the brief run of Alan McGee’s Poptones label were able to marvel the musical [...]
The Cradle Laughing In My Sleep NNA Tapes How do you make a difference as a singer/songwriter? Well, you can start by creating music under a band moniker, but that [...]
Pat Keen Cells Remain Birdwatcher Records It has now become quite a common thing for an artist to move from one genre to another. This is particularly true, say, if you start out as [...]
Jonathan Richman I, Jonathan Craft Recordings Jonathan Richman’s 1992 masterpiece I, Jonathan, is now remastered for its first ever vinyl release. The cover should say it all, [...]
Arlo McKinley Die Midwestern Oh Boy Records A debut album at 40? Before you rise your eyebrows or hear a single note from Arlo McKinley’s album Die Midwestern, bear one fact [...]
Allegra Krieger The Joys Of Forgetting Northern Spy Records These days, there are so many singer-songwriters around, male or female, you can easily get the [...]
Charley Crockett Welcome To Hard Times Thirty Tigers The battle between the fans of old classic country and of new country rages on. Arguments fly, but most of them [...]
Zoe Polanski Violent Flowers Youngbloods Can you express inner and outer turmoil through some gentle dream pop? If you think not, think again and take a listen to Violent [...]
The Icebergs Add Vice Imaginator Records Putting it down in written form, this is how things stand with NYC trio The Icebergs and their latest album Add Vice: we have a singing [...]
Various Artists Brown Acid: The Tenth Trip RidingEasy Records You’ve got to hand it to RidingEasy Records! To be able to come up with 10 editions of Brown Acid, [...]
Norah Jones Pick Me Up Off The Floor Blue Note Records Many listeners who consider themselves serious fans will instantly disregard the new Norah Jones album Pick Me [...]
Babbling April Days Of Retreat Independent How do you get out of the shadow of a band you are most compared with? Washington D.C. trio Babbling April are doing just that. [...]
Mare Berger The Moon Is Always Full Independent In most cases, the PR people try to colour a new release by their proteges in glorifying light, often giving [...]
Cuddle Magic Bath Northern Spy Records Album titles are not often appropriately named. In this case however, it couldn’t be more appropriate. Bath, by New York/Philadelphia sextet [...]
Snog Lullabies For The Lithium Age Metropolis Australian David Thrussell aka Snog was already an enigma even before he came up with his latest album Lullabies For The [...]
Mick Harvey Waves Of ANZAC/The Journey Mute Mick Harvey has proven so far that he is an artist that is bound to surprise you, and in practically all cases, [...]
DownTown Mystic Better Day Sha-La Music Inc. Some albums have strange fates. They come, disappear without a trace and then magically reappear a few months, a few years, or a [...]
Bleach Day as if always Birdwatcher Vermont duo of Loui Kiley and Vinny Marksohn, aka Bleach Day released their sophomore album as if always when COVID-19 was still ‘something [...]
