WILDER MAKER SMOKING THE BUNNY WESTERN VINYL When we reviewed Wilder Maker’s The Streets Like Beds Still Warm album back in 2025, we noted that the band’s frontman Gabriel Birnbaum is all over the place, operating as a music [...]
HAYDEN THE RECENT PAST HARDWOOD RECORDS Hayden Desser, simply known professionally as Hayden, the somewhat reclusive Toronto musician, has been releasing LPs for 30 years. His 10th studio LP, The Recent Past, takes listeners on a familiar, [...]
COMPUTERWIFE BORN FROM A WISH DANGER COLLECTIVE RECORDS If you’ve listened to music for as long as the Spill team has, chances are that you’ve come across at least one song or album that refuses to be understood or labeled. Known for a [...]
DEUX VISAGES CALL IT GOODBYE PURE NOISE RECORDS Coming-of-age stories are both nuanced and universal. We all have one. The perennial struggle for identity that has graced everything from classic literature to the silver screen. Growing up is a [...]
CHASTITY BELT ALL MY FRIENDS SUICIDE SQUEEZE RECORDS Indie rock group Chastity Belt surprises us with an early holiday gift: All My Friends. Harmonizing together since 2010, this alternative quartet of besties builds a record inspired by their [...]
THE FUZZTONES JUST ONCE CLEOPATRA RECORDS The Fuzztones released their debut album, Lysergic Emanations in 1985, which means much of this live compilation, Just Once, was recorded prior to their first studio album. Although, listening to the [...]
CONDUIT OF HUMANITY THE ROOK RESCORD RECORDS Conduit Of Humanity is more of a collective than a band. Of course, they perform live and record, but their albums are more of a collaboration of a number of artists. This album, The Rook, for [...]
THE QUESTION MUCH! OGLIO RECORDS Between 1983 and 1985, The Question, a band from Los Angeles who developed a huge and devoted fan base in Southern California, released two singles, neither of which charted but they were well loved and are now [...]
