KING GIZZARD & THE LIZARD WIZARD PHANTOM ISLAND P(DOOM) RECORDS So, where have the Australian mavericks gone so far in their explorations? From all things heavy to the outskirts of microtonal and spiritual jazz, while cramming as many albums [...]
YAWN WISH I COULD’VE KILLBEAT MUSIC If you think that crafting close to perfect pop music is easy, then you’ve got things all wrong. Pop has a set of formulas you have to respect, and being inventive and doing it right within those [...]
PEACEFUL FACES WITHOUT A SINGLE FIGHT GLAMOUR GOWNS Quite a few so-called singer-songwriters take a trip down a lush baroque pop lane, and that seems just the right place for multi-instrumentalist and composer Tree Palmedo and his latest album [...]
BRIANA MARELA MY INNER REST INDEPENDENT It has been a while since composers of what is considered modern classical music have adopted elements of other musical genres that are also considered as modern – whether it is rock in its [...]
LETTERS FROM TAYLOR STILL ASKING INDEPENDENT It is a bold move to have your debut EP with two prominent covers right up front. It might indicate that you don’t have much faith in your originals. Yet, that is not a worry that Calgary, Ab [...]
RAIN PARADE CRASHING DREAM (DELUXE REISSUE) LABEL 51 RECORDS Paisley Underground flourished in Los Angeles in the 80s as a response to cotton candy electro dance that was dominating the charts at the time (think Kaja Goo Goo) and punk not going [...]
AVA McCOY DRAGONFLY ACROPHASE RECORDS As a singer songwriter, how do you fit Pacific Northwest countryside (Oregon, to be precise) along with New York City as a somewhat stark contrast? Ava McCoy seems to be able to do that on her latest album [...]
CLARA JOY WHAT WE HAVE NOW SHIMMY-DISC Neither NYC singer-songwriter Clara Joy nor Kramer, the man behind Shimmy-Disc are newbies on the music scene (Kramer quite a bit longer), and it might have taken them time to cooperate, but on What We Have [...]
SEDONA GETTING INTO HEAVEN INDEPENDENT If you are a Los Angeles singer-songwriter through and through and you are coming up with your debut album, it just might come as no surprise that your music just might be a combination between 70s Laurel [...]
JESS KERBER FROM WAY DOWN HERE FELTE RECORDS If you are a singer-songwriter these days, getting your music heard and recognized just might be harder than it was when this genre (or sub-genre, if you will) was in what is considered its prime in [...]
KILYNN LUNSFORD PROMISCUOUS GENES FEEL IT RECORDS Ok, Kilynn Lunsford might seem an unusual name to some, but there are actually two who are currently making music—neither of the more usual kind. The one we’re talking about here though is [...]
FRIENDSHIP CAVEMAN WAKES UP MERGE RECORDS There’s this leftfield take on Americana music that has been going on for a while that encompasses quite a number of artists, from Will Oldham and Bill Callahan to the likes of Idaho Pernice [...]
NOW NOW DOES THE TRICK K RECORDS/PERENNIAL RECORDS What could be the key denominator for the artists who record for Olympia Washington’s stalwart recork label, K? Hard to put your finger on it, actually, but a great sense of melody. No matter [...]
ABSOLUTE TREAT SHATTERED LOVE VICTORY POOL RECORDS There’s always a question going round with music/albums/EP’s that are distinctively –should you simply disregard it simply because it is pop? Sure, it just might be that there is a [...]
I’M WITH HER WILD AND CLEAR AND BLUE ROUNDER RECORDS When great vocal harmonies align, magic sparks fly through aural space, and it doesn’t matter what genre of music is involved, although, very often, those harmonies are rooted in [...]
BUILDINGS AND FOOD PROVINCIAL PARK INDEPENDENT Can you make a direct connection with nature through electronic music (ambient or otherwise)? Well, Jen K. Wilson, aka Buildings and Food, thinks that is possible and she keeps on making that [...]
SHIPS IN THE NIGHT PROTECTION SPELLS METROPOLIS RECORDS Alethea Leventhal, aka Ships In The Night, already has a slew of releases behind her, with album Latent Powers from 2021 easily recalling the heyday of Cleopatra Records and its predominant [...]
ABIGAIL LAPELL ANNIVERSARY & MORE SONGS ABOUT LOVE OUTSIDE MUSIC If you are a close follower of Spill Magazine you’ve surely noticed that there are quite a few reviews of Abigail Lapell’s albums around here, and there is quite a [...]
LUCIUS LUCIUS FANTASY RECORDS After years on the scene, four previous albums, numerous collaborations and singles, you just might be turning a new leaf if you are releasing your fifth album as a self-titled one, and for the first time at that. [...]
LAURA REZNEK THE SEWING ROOM INDEPENDENT Laura Reznek moved from her native British Columbia to Britain, but judging by her latest album The Sewing Room, that didn’t seem to have made much influence on her sticking to her best musical [...]
THE BLUE KNOTS BECOMING NOISE INDEPENDENT Danielle Stech-Homsy might not be a big fan of social media (many won’t blame her), but she is not exactly a newcomer. As Rio en Medio, she previously made a bit of a name for herself with music [...]
VARIOUS ARTISTS BROWN ACID: THE TWENTIETH TRIP RIDINGEASY RECORDS Even though the Grateful Dead might not fit within the hard rock, heavy psych, and proto-metal subgenres that is the subject matter of the Brown Acid compilation series, their now [...]
ABIGAIL HOPKINS STARDUST INDEPENDENT Surviving a traumatic event, a serious illness, leaves heavy marks on both body and soul and is often something that is really hard to describe in words, let alone in music. Yet, with her latest album [...]
BLUE FOUNDATION CLOSE TO THE KNIFE KØN RECORDS Danish band Blue Foundation are no newcomers, at least that cannot be said about the band’s frontman, singer, multi-instrumentalist, and producer Tobias Wilner, who favours that Mark E. Smith [...]
