Fur Trader Stuck In The Aching Again Independent How do you keep up the traditional sound of prime singer songwriters of late 60s and early 70s and at the same time present your music with an individual touch that sets you apart? Los Angeles [...]
ferna understudy Independent It is ok to be humble as a musician, particularly if you are just coming up with your debut album. But Belfast, Northern Ireland singer songwriter Hannah McPhillimy, aka ferna, as her debut album understudy shows, [...]
Fruit Bats A River Running To Your Heart Merge Records Fruit Bats and their songwriter Eric D. Johnson have been around for a while, and they have been constantly coming up with some of the more sophisticated, elegant, and often subdued folk [...]
Linkin Park Meteora (20th Anniversary Edition) Warner Records Few albums deserve a mark of perfection when it comes to production, writing, and instrumental world-building. For Linkin Park, the album that comes to mind is Meteora. When the album [...]
Daughter Stereo Mind Game Glassnote Records/4AD After seven years, Daughter has released another album. It was worth the wait. Stereo Mind Game features poetic lyrics, stunning instrumentation, and powerful vocals. Each track is incredibly [...]
American Grandma Rare Knives Of Light Independent American Grandma and its new album Rare Knives Of Light, is more strong proof that there is slowcore revival going on. Now, don’t just revisit those Codeine or Bark Psychosis albums, [...]
Nico Paulo Nico Paulo Forward Music Group It might be a strange choice for some to exchange the milder climes of Portugal for Newfoundland, but for singer songwriter Nico Paulo, that just might have been the right thing to do to come up with [...]
Yaeji With A Hammer XL Recordings On a debut album that was heavily-anticipated by the global electronic scene, Yaeji’s sound manifests as an ocean of ideas, each tide brimming with intriguing influences and provoking artistic choices. The [...]
Covet Catharsis Triple Crown Records It’s hard to manipulate vocals, guitars, bass, pianos, and drums to beautifully articulate sun-drenched guitar patterns and beachfront atmospherics into one’s music from start to finish on an [...]
Hayden Are We Good Arts & Crafts Hayden is definitely one of the more prolific artists out there. After all, it took him some eight years to come up with Are We Good, his latest album. Yet one of the things the Toronto singer-songwriter has [...]
Area Resident Phosphene Surkeus Records Phosphene is Area Resident’s seventh album, and its first of all new material since 2022’s Quasar. Here, Doug Hempstead, also known as Area Resident, is co-producing with Jordon Zadorozny, and the end [...]
Vicious Beast I Am Drugs Independent Over the last year or so, Monster Truck’s lead vocalist and bassist Jon Harvey has been teasing his latest project through social media. Vicious Beast came to life through a handful of scorching live dates [...]
Peter Daltrey & The Know Escape Running Through Chelsea Think Like A Key Music Running Through Chelsea is a good example of how music can mesh together from different genres and different eras. Peter Daltrey has been making music since the [...]
The Who The Who With Orchestra: Live At Wembley Universal Music Six decades into their career, The Who continues to experiment with its performances, justifying its worth as one of the greatest bands of its era. Their 2019 tour saw the British [...]
Filter The Amalgamut (20th Anniversary Edition) Craft Recordings Just over 20 years ago, Richard Patrick released Filter’s third album, The Amalgamut. The album was a triumph and marked the conclusion of a three-album era – which kicked off with [...]
boygenius The Record Interscope The debut album The Record by supergroup boygenius is a remarkable album that showcases the individual and collective talents of Julien Baker, Lucy Dacus, and Phoebe Bridgers. “$20” and “Satanist” are the heaviest [...]
John Foxx The Arcades Project Metamatic It seems hard to believe that after close to 50 years of making music, John Foxx has never recorded a solo piano album until now. The Arcades Project is his second release this year and although it is not [...]
Foghat Road Fever: The Complete Bearsville Recordings 1972-1975 HNE/Cherry Red Records I remember watching an MTV awards show, many, many years ago. Jim Carey, dressed as a hippie, made the joke “would it kill you to play some Foghat?” He was [...]
Peggy Lee I’m A Woman (60th Anniversary Edition) Capitol Records/UMe In 1963, Peggy Lee had a surprise hit with the song “I’m A Woman”. She had not been on the charts since 1958 with her classic “Fever”. Rock ‘n’ roll had a firm grip on [...]
Kilmore From The Inside Independent Kilmore’s latest release From The Inside hits all the marks on the Psych/Groove/Stoner Rock report card. Straight A’s here! This exceptionally talented Halifax-based band led by female vocalist [...]
Tara MacLean Sparrow Independent Sparrow is the latest album from Canadian singer-songwriter Tara MacLean. The music veteran has just released a memoir called Song of the Sparrow, and this album is the soundtrack to the book. Recorded in Lake [...]
City And Colour The Love Still Held Me Near Dine Alone Records Dallas Green, aka City and Colour has amassed quite a following behind his six albums so far, and his latest, The Love Still Held Me Near, will probably not only confirm that [...]
August Heaven’s Gate Independent Basing your music on philosopher’s ideas can not only be a tricky thing, but very often, quite indulgent and overbearing, and if that philosopher is Georges Bataille, whose main ideas revolve around [...]
Various Artists Cherry Stars Collide Cherry Red Records Actually, the full title of this 4-CD set is Cherry Stars Collide, Dream Pop, Shoegaze & Ethereal Rock 1986-1995. Cherry Red had quite a good reason for such a title, as there is quite [...]
