FUTURE PALACE DISTORTION ARISING EMPIRE The world and its issues and complicated emotions can par the course for a nightmarish blend of anxiety and overstimulation. It feels like when we often tackle one problem, several others rise in its [...]
THE THE ENSOULMENT CINÉOLA/EARMUSIC The wait is finally over!! After nearly 25 years, The The has finally released a new album titled Ensoulment and what a gloriously exciting return it is. Picking up right where they left off, The The delivers [...]
FRONT 242 TWO IN ONE ALFA MATRIX The rerelease of Front 242’s Two In One on 12-in clear transparent vinyl (originally released in 1981 and 1982), put out on Alfa Matrix just ahead of the Belgian EBM pioneers’ final tour, delivers four tracks [...]
WAYNE GRAHAM BASTION WATERLOO RECORDS No, Wayne Graham is not a singer-songwriter, nor is he a single person (in this case at least)—Wayne Graham is a band from Kentucky, and Bastion is their ninth and latest album. The quartet picked the band [...]
BOB SUMNER SOME PLACE TO REST EASY NORTH COUNTRY COLLECTIVE/FLUFF & GRAVY As an artist, there are two ways to go about tackling Americana music- you can play it straight, picking up the traditional elements (country, folk, other roots forms) [...]
MO KENNEY FROM NOWHERE INDEPENDENT Mo Kenney (they/them) is up to their fifth album titled From Nowhere. Yet, from wherever that is, Juno-nominated songwriter’s music here is coming from somewhere good. Presenting all the usual as well as [...]
DAVID LUNING LESSONS INDEPENDENT Yet another Americana artist? Well, yes and no really, as Americana as a genre has long been an expanding musical category that includes so many disparate musical elements that often don’t have much in [...]
MOLCHAT DOMA BELAYA POLOSA SACRED BONES Intriguing is the word that better describes Molchat Doma’s new album Belaya Polosa. The Belarusian post-punk band comes back with its distinctive brutalist vibe that not only is appreciated in the artwork [...]
