Com Truise Silicon Tare EP Ghostly International Synthwave started sometime mid-2000s, but didn’t really become a thing until the 2011 film Drive was released. Cliff Martinez’s brilliant score was moody, melodic and very ‘80s. The synth-heavy [...]
James Girl At The End Of The World BMG Recordings For the most part, James has always been a singles band, known more for their hits than their albums. That’s not to say that their LPs are bad – Gold Mother and Laid are classics – but a fair [...]
Journalism Faces Dead Stare Records Trying to break out and be noticed in a music scene is never easy, especially if that city is Brooklyn, whose scene is so dense that it is nearly impossible. Journalism’s first LP, Faces, deals with this topic [...]
Choir Of Young Believers Grasque Ghostly International Artists disguising themselves through the use of alter-egos in order to reinvent their sound is not that uncommon in pop music. Sometimes this formula works (think of the Beatles during [...]
The Suffers The Suffers Rhyme And Reason The Suffers’ self-titled debut album combines vintage soul, jazz and reggae to create a unique blend of R&B. Over the past five years, the 10-piece ensemble has been making a name for itself by [...]
Feeding Fingers Attend Sounds For Sure With 25 songs and a running time that passes the two-hour mark, Feeding Fingers latest release, Attend, seems a tad daunting. However, the diversity of the material makes the time float by. After wrapping [...]
Ty Segall Emotional Mugger Drag City Since his 2008 solo debut, Ty Segall has proved to be one of the most prolific musicians around today, releasing a total of eight solo albums. Segall has experimented with garage rock, heavy metal, [...]
King Gizzard And The Lizard Wizard Paper Mâché Dream Balloon ATO Records King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard, the prolific psych-rocking Aussies, released their seventh and most versatile album, Paper Mâché Dream Balloon. After listening to [...]
Tame Impala Currents Modular Every so often an artist produces an album that comes from left field. Whether it’s a change in their subject matter or sound, these albums often turn out to be the ones we remember them for. The Beach Boys’ Pet [...]
