Future Islands As Long As You Are 4AD Nearly three years after releasing The Far Field (2017) and six years after their breakout album Singles (2014), Future Islands have returned with another beautiful new wave synth-pop album called As Long As [...]
John Lennon Gimme Some Truth. The Ultimate Mixes Apple/Universal Music Today, October 9, 2020, John Lennon would have turned 80, and perhaps the best way to celebrate his birthday is to release a retrospective of his music. Gimme Some Truth. The [...]
Anne Malin Waiting Song Independent How does a combination of Cowboy Junkies and Coco Rosie, both at their most imaginative, sound to you? If the answer to that question is an emphatic yes, then Waiting Song, the second album from Anne Malin, is [...]
METZ Atlas Vending Sub Pop Records “I woke up to hear the dial tone/And the sound gets stuck between my teeth”, utters Alex Edkins in “Pulse”, the opening track of Atlas Vending, the long-awaited fourth full-length from METZ. Those words, along [...]
Lupin Lupin Grand Jury Music After two triumphant LP’s as frontman for the indie outfit out of Minneapolis, Hippo Campus’s Jake Luppen is now launching his own solo career under the name Lupin. His self-titled debut is beautiful in a bizarre way [...]
Dawes Good Luck With Whatever Rounder Records Recorded in Nashville under the guidance of six-time Grammy-winner Dave Cobb, veteran rock band Dawes returns with their seventh album, Good Luck With Whatever, a 9-track collection of mellow, [...]
Working Men’s Club Working Men’s Club Heavenly Recordings The eponymous debut album from Working Men’s Club is addictive upon arrival, love at first sight. Emerging from England’s Yorkshire countryside near Manchester, the band is lead by the [...]
Peach Pit You And Your Friends (Deluxe Version) Columbia Records With the release of their sophomore album You and Your Friends, Vancouver-based indie darling Peach Pit cemented their reputation as upcoming indie rockstars. Building on the [...]
Eric C. Powell and Andrea Powell Fly Away Independent Fly Away is Eric C. Powell and Andrea Powell’s fifth album and their second for 2020 (Mute was released earlier this year). The sheer quantity of music would be cause for concern, in that, [...]
Queen + Adam Lambert Live Around the World EMI Records Queen and Adam Lambert have been touring around the World in recent years, and have put together a live album highlighting some of their shows. Live Around The World leads with the energetic [...]
Public Enemy What You Gonna Do When The Grid Goes Down? Def Jam Recordings Despite kind-of-firing-kind-of-not-firing Flavor Flav in March of this year, east coast hip hop pioneers Public Enemy are back; perhaps better than they have been in the [...]
Sufjan Stevens The Ascension Asthmatic Kitty It is hard to believe, but it has been five years since Sufjan Stevens released a ‘conventional’ studio album. That doesn’t mean he has not been busy, because he has. The Ascension is a return to [...]
Will Butler Generations Merge Records Will Butler is a busy man. It’s been five years since the release of his solo debut album Policy (2015), but in between he also released Friday Night (2016), an energetic live album, and as a member of [...]
Deftones Ohms Reprise Four years ago, Deftones released Gore, the most drastic departure from their known alternative brand of metal. Now, the band has reunited with long-time producer, Terry Date, who produced the first four Deftones’ records [...]
Bendrix Littleton Deep Dark South NNA Tapes Initially, many music fans didn’t realize what kind of a gap was left when late great Sparklehorse, aka Mark Linkous, left us prematurely. These days that left-of-center nether space between roots, [...]
Big Sugar Hemi-Vision (Deluxe Edition) Universal Music A quarter of a century on from its original release, the platinum-selling Hemi-Vision gets the big “deluxe” treatment. This reissue comes complete with newly-released lost takes, acoustic [...]
Télépopmusik Everybody Breaks The Line Warm Music So, you think electro pop music has nothing substantial to offer? Have you forgotten LCD Soundsystem, or any of the ‘thinking’ French electro bands, like Télépopmusik for example? The duo of [...]
Squirrel Nut Zippers Lost Songs Of Doc Souchon Southern Broadcasting Jimbo Mathus and his crew continue to convert and subvert vintage jazz on this set, “inspired by all the mysterious characters from the history of New Orleans jazz music”. [...]
Magnolia Bayou Strange Place Independent Hailing from Southern Mississippi, Magnolia Bayou have released their sophomore album, Strange Place. The full-length album follows their 2018 self-titled debut and a series of singles released throughout [...]
Yusuf/Cat Stevens Tea For The Tillerman² Universal Music Half a century after Cat Stevens released Tea for the Tillerman, we find Yusuf taking a retrospective look at his own breakthrough album. Fittingly enough, the concept for the album came [...]
Ian Wayne Risking Illness Whatever’s Clever Getting over sad times sometimes requires sad music. Still, for such music to work you need to not only feel it in yourself as an artist, but also to be able to transform it into music that [...]
Mines Falls Mines Falls Independent Saying that something sounds ‘cinematic’ can mean 1001 things to 1001 different people. Still, most would agree, that a rock sound that leads a line from the melodic side of Pink Floyd to Elbow and Radiohead [...]
Tobin Sprout Empty Horses Fire Records Empty Horses, the seventh solo album from Tobin Sprout, takes a stylistic detour from what we are used to by someone regarded as a prince of fuzz-laden indie rock. With his latest record, we are treated to [...]
Ace Frehley Origins Vol. 2 eOne “We’ve got a little surprise for you tonight! We’re gonna turn the microphone over to Ace Frehley,” Paul Stanley famously declared on Kiss’ Shock Me (Live), released in 1977. Since then, Frehley has suffered [...]
