Willie Nelson Ride Me Back Home Legacy Recordings Willie Nelson’s 13th studio album with Legacy Recordings, Ride Me Back Home, is a beautiful record in which Nelson explores such grand themes as time, succumbing to it, fighting against it, as [...]
Absolutely Free Geneva Freeport Idée Fixe Records The Toronto trio known as Absolutely Free have just released a new EP titled Geneva Freeport, and it is a hypnotic 21-minute followup to their self-titled debut album of 2014, which also happened [...]
Julia Shapiro Perfect Versions Hardly Art Perfect Versions is the debut solo album for Julia Shapiro, lead vocalist and guitarist of Chastity Belt. The 10-track album takes listeners on a journey of love, loss, pain and nostalgia as we listen to [...]
Oh Susanna Johnstown Continental Records My first foray into Suzie Ungerleider’s catalogue of pretty and dark country pop was her second full-length, Sleepy Little Sailor. I remember playing that album often, loving her tough-as-nails voice and [...]
X Ambassadors Orion KIDinaKORNER/Interscope/Universal Music X Ambassadors have released their long-awaited third album, Orion. It is filled with a variety of songs that show the complete range of the human experience. Sam Harris, the lead [...]
Cisco Adler Hippieland Bananabeat Records Hippieland is Cisco Adler’s fourth solo album, and his first since 2014’s Coastin’. Adler recorded the album in Malibu and it is very much a solo project in that he plays acoustic guitar, bass, drums, [...]
Keb’ Mo’ Oklahoma Concord Records It goes without saying that Keb’ Mo’s reputation as an influential and talented modern-day blues and Americana performer is well-established. He has four Grammy Award wins and almost 20 albums [...]
Historian Spiral Again Independent At some point at the beginning of this century (more or less) somebody came up with the term folktronica. It was supposed to designate basically gentle singer/songwriter fare embellished with electronics. A [...]
Mattiel Satis Factory ATO Records Atlanta’s Mattiel is a group based around Mattiel Brown, and Satis Factory is its second album. Working closely with Jonah Swilley (who co-produced the album with Randy Michael), Mattiel Brown has come up with [...]
Skyscraper Stan Golden Boy: Vol.I and Vol.II Independent This album was somewhat of a surprise. I truly did not know what to expect, but what I got was a brilliant album full of some dark stories about everyday people and life. Golden Boy is [...]
Various Artists Electronic Voyages: Early Moog Recordings 1964 – 1969 Waveshaper Media Electronic Voyages: Early Moog Recordings 1964 – 1969 is not a soundtrack, but a companion to the upcoming documentary about Robert [...]
Buzzcocks Singles Going Steady (2019 Remastered Version) Domino Records Singles Going Steady was originally released 40 years ago,the first Buzzcocks album released in North America. Basically it was a compilation of all of their singles, [...]
Bruce Springsteen Western Stars Sony Music Following an unprecedentedly successful residency on Broadway – culminating with Springsteen On Broadway, a live album and Netflix concert film, released last December – Bruce Springsteen is back. [...]
Bad Books III Loma Vista Recordings Not a single sound from Bad Books was dropped for almost six years. The last time fans heard of the band, consisting of Manchester Orchestra members Andy Hull, Kevin Devine, and Robert McDowell, was back in [...]
Chapell Penultimate Independent Making good pop music is probably one of the hardest things to do. You have all these prerequisite rules to abide by, coming up with a good and catchy melody, exercise almost perfect musicianship, and decide how [...]
Paul Doffing Running In The Dark Independent It is very easy for singer/songwriters to fall into the ‘my pains’ musical compartment. That is the one where the artist picks up his or her acoustic guitar, starts strumming it slowly, and starts [...]
Catacomb Saints Cruel As The Grave Independent Befittingly self-described as “elevator music for the end of the world”, Catacomb Saints kick things off with their first EP, Cruel As The Grave, entrenching listeners in lyrical hopelessness and [...]
Buzzcocks A Different Kind Of Tension (2019 Remastered Version) Domino Records Few albums have achieved such iconic status as A Different Kind Of Tension. Produced by Martin Rushent, A Different Kind Of Tension was Buzzcocks’ third and final [...]
Combichrist One Fire Out of Line Music American industrial/aggrotech metal band Combichrist are back at it again with their ninth studio album, One Fire. Like their previous albums, One Fire features an arsenal of bass-heavy aggressive tracks [...]
Motionless In White Disguise Roadrunner Records Industrial metal group Motionless in White present their most emotional lyrical album yet. The mental and emotional turmoil of vocalist Chris “Motionless” Cerulli are poured into 11 tracks on this [...]
Patrick Krief Dovetale Indica Montreal’s Patrick Krief, known simply as Krief, continues to build upon his impressive solo career. After over ten years of performing, writing, and composing music as lead guitarist and backup singer as an [...]
Naytronix Air BotCave Records Nate Brenner brings us his third solo album, Air, under the name Naytronix. You may recognize him as being the bassist of Tune-Yards, and he is at it again. His latest album is an interesting mix of symphonic melody [...]
Pixx Small Mercies 4AD Pixx’s sophomore album Small Mercies, out on June 7, 2019, really highlights the London-based singer’s grungy vocals. With lyrics that speak of deep thoughts and repression, each song has a bit of a love theme about it. [...]
The Cretins “Haven’t Got A Clue” (Single) Dirty Water Records The latest band to emerge from the depths of the grimy Dirty Water Records roster is The Cretins, a four-piece outfit from Brighton and South London. As Dirty Water [...]
