Belle And Sebastian How To Solve Our Human Problems – Part 2 Matador Records One of the things I love about Belle and Sebastian is that one never knows what the band is going to do next, both musically and in terms of releases. On December [...]
Soho Rezanejad Six Archetypes Silicone Records I like organized noise. I really like albums by artists who are not afraid to be a bit noisy and seemingly chaotic. Six Archetypes falls into this category, but let’s be very clear: This music is [...]
Denny Doherty Of All Things – The Complete ABC/Dunhill Masters Real Gone Music Denny Doherty got his start in 1956 in his hometown of Halifax, Nova Scotia before he became one quarter of The Mamas & The Papas in 1965. The Mamas & [...]
The Components Continuum Mint 400 Records Hailing from New Jersey, The Components have released their explosive debut record, Continuum. The duo, consisting of Ronnie Sena on lead vocals and guitar and Zoe Ekonomidis on drums and backing [...]
Black Label Society Grimmest Hits eOne Music Black Label Society is kicking 2018 off with a bang with the release of Grimmest Hits, their first album since 2014’s critically acclaimed Catacombs of the Black Vatican. Since then, lead guitarist [...]
Idiot Grins State Of Health Snug Harbor Records Harkening back to bygone musical times requires detailed musical knowledge and perception, but also a vision of what kind of sound needs to be brought back. Miss out on any of these points and it [...]
Typhoon Offerings Roll Call Records It has felt like a long four years since White Lighter’s release, but Oregon’s Typhoon has finally returned with their latest offering, Offerings. Clocking in at an impressive seventy minutes stretched across [...]
Toy Cars Paint Brain Independent In the spirit of the working-class attitude that has shaped many of New Jersey’s best musical exports, Toy Cars brings the youthful exuberance of independence on their debut full-length album. After finding a [...]
Unlikely Friends Crooked Numbers Swoon Records On Crooked Numbers, Unlikely Friends trades in being the “best hardly-known indie pop band in the Pacific northwest” for the title of “the indie pop band that everyone in the Pacific northwest will [...]
Leeann Skoda Call Me Back Home Big Ego Records Leeann Skoda has been recording since 2014. Call Me Back Home is her third album, and her first since 2015’s Didn’t We All. It is also her first for Big Ego Records, a label created by Chris Schlarb [...]
Philip Glenn Outsider Big Ego Records In 2017, Chris Schlarb (of Psychic Temple) announced the launch of a new record label, Big Ego. It is a subscription-based label, which means you pay a fee once a year and receive four albums a year. All of [...]
Panda Bear A Day With The Homies Domino Records ‘More fluff tends to equal less power.’ The words of Panda Bear (a.k.a. Noah Lennox of Animal Collective) have never seemed truer with his description of his newest EP, A Day With the Homies. The [...]
BØRNS Blue Madonna Universal Music/Interscope Records For a young man of 26, BØRNS sure knows how to make a dynamic album. Blue Madonna is his second record since 2015. Compared to his 2015 record Dopamine, Blue Madonna sounds more colourful and [...]
Elovet Empath Independent Elovet is one person, Aljournal Franklin II, a young and talented artist. Empath is his third full-length album. His last album, Rift, was released almost a year ago, and since then he has issued a single. But Empath [...]
Daniel Romano Nerveless + Human Touch You’ve Changed Records Releasing two albums on the same day through Bandcamp may be something you would not expect from your average musician, but Daniel Romano is far from average and he is not so [...]
Duran Duran (Featuring Andy Wickett) Girls On Film 1979 Demo EP Cleopatra Records Pressed on bright red vinyl, Cleopatra Records has released Duran Duran Girls on Film 1979 Demo EP featuring original frontman Andy Wickett (a.k.a. Fane) on [...]
Sills And Smith Maps – Burned Or Lost Independent Maps – Burned or Lost is the sixth studio album from Sills & Smith. And although they have produced some mighty fine music in the past, they knock it out of the park with this [...]
OMD (Orchestral Manoeuvres In the Dark) The Punishment of Luxury: B Sides And Bonus Material White Noise Records The Punishment of Luxury by Orchestral Manoeuvres In the Dark (OMD) proved to be their biggest album in 16 years, peaking at number [...]
N.E.R.D No_One Ever Really Dies Sony Music It’s been seven years but N.E.R.D is back at last with their first album release since 2010’s Nothing. Since the band’s hiatus, the alternative pop band consisting of Pharrell Williams, Chad Hugo, and [...]
The Beatles The Christmas Records Apple Corps Ltd./Universal Music In 1963, Beatlemania was hitting the U.K. in full force. It happened to be touching down in Canada too, a full year before the ‘British Invasion’ in the U.S.A.. Back in the U.K., [...]
Mabel Greer’s Toyshop The Secret Hagger Bailey Music Before there was Yes, there was Mabel Greer’s Toyshop, a band that formed in London in 1966. The band was formed by Clive Bailey (guitar), Robert (Bob) Hagger (drums) and Paul Rutledge [...]
Xiu Xiu / (r) Xiu Xiu / (r) Polyvinyl Records Long-time collaborators and experimentalists Xiu Xiu and (r) have partnered up to play ZZ Top covers for a new split 7” single release through Polyvinyl. For the avant-garde followers of California’s [...]
Jim James Tribute To 2 ATO Records Jim James’ forthcoming solo album Tribute to 2 is the most honest and best collection of songs I’ve heard since Sufjan Steven’s 2015 release Carrie & Lowell. This deep, diverse, and terrifyingly interesting [...]
Juicy J Rubba Band Business Kemosabe/Taylor Gang/Sony Music Hailing from Memphis, Tennessee, Juicy J, the rap veteran who dropped his first solo album in 2002, while he was still a member of Three 6 Mafia, the group he founded in 1991 – [...]
