Moby Everything Was Beautiful, And Nothing Hurt Arts & Crafts American electronic DJ/producer/singer-songwriter Moby’s latest album Everything Was Beautiful and Nothing Hurt isn’t anything like his fifth and breakthrough album [...]
Cheap Tissue Cheap Tissue Lolipop Records Cheap Tissue’s self-titled first album has all the grit, passion, and messy sonic energy of a classic punk band’s debut LP — think Bad Religion’s How Could Hell Be Any Worse but with more a more refined [...]
Various Artists Our Voltage Girlsville Records Chicago-based Girlsville Records have put together a compilation record consisting of work from multiple artists. Our Voltage was released to benefit legal aid for anti-racist activists and for the [...]
The Low Anthem The Salt Doll Went To Measure The Depth Of The Sea Joyful Noise Recordings Both haunting and full of raw beauty, The Salt Doll Went to Measure the Depth of the Sea, The Low Anthem’s fifth full length LP with Joyful Noise [...]
Dana Buoy Ice Glitter Gold Everloving Akron/Family are (were?) one of those bands from whose inception you were never on a sure ground. On record or live (even better), you were never sure what to expect. From acapella gospel, through to folk [...]
The Scaners The Scaners Dirty Water Records From Frank Sinatra crooning about being flown to the moon to David Bowie, the man who fell to Earth, popular music has had an on-and-off fascination with space and life beyond our planet. For The [...]
Freddie McGregor Bobby Bobylon: Deluxe Edition Studio One This is one of those classic sets that should be on everyone’s playlist; it is almost inevitably included when talk moves to the subject of classic reggae albums. Initially released in [...]
FRIGS Basic Behaviour Arts & Crafts FRIGS’s debut album Basic Behaviour has all of the hallmarks of post-punk — straight-ahead and pounding percussion, guitar tones that squeal and roll, and a lead singer that wails as often as sings. These [...]
Nick Oliveri N.O. Hits At All Vol. 4 Heavy Psych Sounds N.O. Hits At All Vol.4 stands as the fourth and final installment of Nick Oliveri’s No Hits At All series, a collection of records that chronicle the vocalist and bassist’s released – and [...]
The Doors Live At The Isle Of Wight Festival 1970 Eagle Vision For the first time since 1970, The Doors performance at the legendary Isle of Wight gets officially released; which begs us to ask the question, why now? It seems odd that a [...]
Charlotte Day Wilson Stone Woman Independent Coming 18 months after her critically acclaimed debut EP, CDW, Stone Woman is the latest instalment in Charlotte Day Wilson’s vision of modern soul. Featuring Wilson’s signature smooth [...]
Hollywood Sinners Khöme Kakkä Dirty Water Records With 17 years of being a band under their belt, Spanish garage punk band Hollywood Sinners — one of the best band names I have heard in quite a while — has released their fourth full-length [...]
Divide And Dissolve Abomination Dero Arcade Like coffee and cigarettes, music and politics are just made for each other. Inherently, all music carries with it a socio-political value, and Texan-Australian duo Divide and Dissolve throws this [...]
Everything Is Recorded Everything Is Recorded By Richard Russell XL Recordings Richard Russell founded XL Recordings in 1989, and since that time XL has produced some of the most original and coolest dance records released in the last 25 years. [...]
Jamison Isaak EP1 Flora Since 2010, Abbotsford, BC’s Jamison Isaak has been creating “compelling, melodic and atmospheric” music under a variety of guises: synth-poppy Teen Daze, dancey Pacific Coliseum, and folky Two Bicycles. EP1 is Jamison’s [...]
Car Seat Headrest Twin Fantasy Matador Records There is a debate that could be had, with Twin Fantasy the fulcrum upon which both sides balance, as to whether Will Toledo is more emotionally tortured or musically gifted. Originally recorded in [...]
Belle And Sebastian How To Solve Our Human Problems – Part 3 Matador Records “Poor boy, I could never live up to your imagination,” sings violinist Sarah Martin in the opening song “Poor Boy.” And she is right. The conversation begins. The [...]
Len Mizzoni Waves Of Indigo Independent Len Mizzoni is no stranger to the music business. A one-time member of Frozen Ghost, Mizzoni has been solo for the last few years. This resulted in 2016’s EP, Special Love. His latest release, Waves of [...]
Neal Morse Life & Times Radiant Records Neal Morse is one busy guy. It is time for his 19th solo studio album, and a further two studio albums as The Neal Morse Band. He released two albums in 2016, one solo and one with The Neal Morse Band. [...]
Glass Tiger 31 Halo Entertainment Group Into the eye of the “Glass Tiger”… Not too many bands (let alone Canadian) can say that they’ve been together for more than 31 years, but the boys from Newmarket, Ontario can speak to that unique [...]
Ought Room Inside The World Merge Records/Royal Mountain Records Ought’s third full length album takes a step away from the chaotic and frantic punk songs they’ve become known for and moves towards a more refined sound. The transition is made [...]
Ezra Furman Transangelic Exodus Bella Union I can think of no better way to start this review than with a simple statement of fact: This album is exhausting. It may also be absolutely bloody brilliant. I have spent the past two days scouring my [...]
The Wombats Beautiful People Will Ruin Your Life Kobalt Music Recordings Liverpool threesome The Wombats have, since their debut album, 2007’s A Guide to Love, Loss & Desperation, championed both melodic British pop sensibility and [...]
Brian Fallon Sleepwalkers Island Records Most casual listeners think they have Brain Fallon figured out: Take Bruce Springsteen’s Jersey-based street poetry and crank the guitars and angst to 11. While most of Fallon’s work with his original [...]
