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 won’t stick to the wall for more than a few seconds. In comes Charley Crockett [...]
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 Flowers, the new album by Israeli singer/songwriter Zoe Polanski. The idea [...]
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 poet, a cellist that plays his instrument like a guitar and a [...]
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, their heavy, psych, fuzz, proto-metal series in less than five years) is a feat in [...]
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 Up Off the Floor. The reasons – she has sold bundles of albums, particularly [...]
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. Those who heard their previous singles and two EPs as well as Days of [...]
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 descriptions that actually in many ways do not reflect the music the listener is to [...]
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 Cuddle Magic. Why? Very simple reason – it was recorded in a [...]
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 Lithium Age. He has not been active in the music scene for quite a few years [...]
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, pleasantly. Not that some of his music is an easy listen, and he didn’t mean it to be. [...]
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 few decades later. New Jersey’s Robert Allen, aka DownTown Mystic, is [...]
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 distant’ on some other shores. In other circumstances, this [...]
Quinn DeVeaux Book Of Soul QDV Records There are certain things that always exude familiarity, warmth, and just simply a good feeling. The first thing that could come to mind in that respect is a Sunday family lunch. Not time to eat, yet? Well [...]
Hanging Valleys Behind The Backs Of Houses Pedro Y El Lobo These days, it is not an uncommon thing that a relatively or completely unknown artist gets millions of streaming hits online. There could be many reasons why that happens. It often [...]
The Mystery Kindaichi Band The Adventures Of Kindaichi Kosuke (Reissue) We Want Sounds French reissue label We Want Sounds is one of the rare ones operating today that really makes an effort to do things properly. The motto is obviously pick [...]
Stars And Rabbit Rainbow Aisle Independent There are usually two trends with artists originating and working in those parts of the world that are not considered centers of modern music. They often walk (or play) in the footsteps of their [...]
AM Clouds Rainmaker Independent Is it OK for a band to re-create a certain musical vibe? That is the question that immediately comes to mind as soon as “Paradise” kicks in, the second track on Rainmaker, the new album by Oregon quartet AM [...]
stAlkid Spooky Tunes, For Lovers And The Dead Independent The story goes that Minneapolis’ Roman Non, aka stAlkid was part of that city’s experimental metal/industrial scene. Maybe. Judging by his album Spooky Tunes, For Lovers and The Dead, you [...]
The Saxophones Eternity Bay Full Time Hobby Back in the ‘50s and early ‘60s, ballrooms and dance halls were in vogue. One of the popular features during dance nights was the so-called ‘ladies’ choice’, when the girls would pick their dancing [...]
Olivia Henry Expectations Independent On Expectations, her second release, Los Angeles singer Olivia Henry tries one of the harder things in modern pop – give her alt-pop some jazz/soul overtones. To make it work, she would have to make it as [...]
Destroyer Have We Met Merge Records Since the release of Streethawk: Seduction in 2001, Dan Bejar has been coming up with one great album after another. Destroyer’s Rubies from 2006 Poison Season from 2015 can certainly end up on many, ‘best of [...]
Katie Burden Edge Of Sleep Cautionary Tail It is really hard to be surprised by any ‘new’ sounds these days. Somehow you just get the feeling you’ve heard it all before. Too much of it. The influences are not only worn on a sleeve, they’re [...]
Brandon Wolfe Scott Burden On Your Shoulders Dine Alone Records Brandon Wolfe Scott is a familiar name to all those who have been following Kelowna, BC ‘bigwigs’ Yukon Blonde. While in the band it is Jeff Innes who handles most of the [...]
Marcus King El Dorado Universal Music Producer Dan Auerbach of The Black Keys handles production on Eldorado, the new album by the guitar prodigy Marcus King. Auerbach also recently Yola’s album, and with all the praise and success it had, there [...]
