Jason Isbell And The 400 Unit The Nashville Sound Southeastern Records/Sony Music “The past is never dead.It’s not even past.”…William Faulkner Writers from the American south have always had a special voice, and a special [...]
Bernice Puff Arts & Crafts Puff cannot be easily described, much like Bernice itself. The EP is the first of the band’s releases with label Arts & Crafts, and lives somewhere in the realm of synth indie soul. Robin Dann is the dreamy [...]
Jessica Lee Morgan Around The Block Space Records Jessica Lee Morgan comes from a very musical family. Her mother is singer/songwriter Mary Hopkin (“Those Were The Days”) and her father is producer/musician Tony Visconti (David Bowie, T. Rex to [...]
Kevin Morby City Music Dead Oceans Records City Music, Kevin Morby’s fourth solo album, is his first since 2016’s Singing Saw. It is also his second release on the Dead Oceans record label. You might also remember that Morby was a member of the [...]
Can The Singles Mute Records Can is, simply put, one of the most influential bands in music history. They formed in Germany in 1968 and the original line-up included Holger Czukay (bass), Irmin Schmidt (Keyboards), Michael Karoli (guitars); and [...]
Jason Loewenstein Spooky Action Joyful Noise Recordings Spooky Action is Jason Loewenstein’ second solo album, and his first since 2002’s At Sixes and Sevens. Mind you, he has been busy during the last 15 years, but fans have patiently waited [...]
Lunch At Allen’s If It Feels Right True North Records/Linus Records Lunch at Allen’s is Murray McLauchlan, Ian Thomas, Marc Jordan and Cindy Church. All Canadian superstars in their own right. If It Feels Right is the fifth release from [...]
Alison Moyet Other Cooking Vinyl Other is Alison Moyet’s ninth solo album, since leaving Yazoo. This is also her first album since 2013’s The Minutes. The important thing to remember about Alison Moyet is that no two of her albums sound the [...]
Royal Blood How Did We Get So Dark? Warner Music Modern rock innovators, Royal Blood have returned with their sophomore full length album, How Did We Get So Dark?. The record follows the band’s massively successful self-titled album from 2014. [...]
Ride Weather Diaries Wichita Recordings On Ride’s first album in over 20 years, they shine with a new, yet unmistakably familiar, light. For a lot of the youngsters out there, you may not have the slightest clue who Ride is. The band was formed [...]
Goldie The Journey Man Metalheadz/Cooking Vinyl The Journey Man, is, in fact, itself a journey. It’s got the backbeat sound that Goldie’s known for; a little bit of electronic, add some synths, and sometimes a sultry voice. The latter half of [...]
Pattern Language Total Squaresvielle Happy Robot Records What would be motorik in terms of music? I guess something to get you motorin’ down the Autobahn, or the open highway, if you are from Colorado like Chris Frain, aka Pattern Language. Or [...]
Moby And The Void Pacific Choir More Fast Songs About The Apocalypse Mute Records The genius of Moby is that you just never know what is going to come out of your speakers when you put on any album he releases. More Fast Songs About The [...]
The Fremonts We Don’t Live There Independent With haunting stories of contemporary American life and the compelling characters who people that landscape, The Fremonts’ debut full length We Don’t Live There has been at the top of my [...]
Phoenix Ti Amo Loyaute/Glassnote Records When this one hits the stores, I’ll be sitting back comfortably in my armchair waiting for the flak to start flying around by both critics and those who consider themselves Phoenix fans. I can tell you [...]
Pixx The Age Of Anxiety 4AD The “sound of the 80’s” has been creeping its way back into the music industry more and more lately. This synth pop sound is especially noticeable the moment The Age of Anxiety by Hannah Rodgers, known as Pixx, begins [...]
Sufjan Stevens, Nico Muhly, Bryce Dessner, James McAlister Planetarium 4AD 2017 is certainly shaping up to be the year of the album. This album has taken on almost mythical proportions. The group came together in 2012 for a performance at a [...]
Chuck Berry Chuck Dualtone Records Anyone who picks up an electric guitar and plays power chords, whether they know it or not, are saluting the original rock guitar hero, Chuck Berry. The twelve-year-old plugging away in his room may think he’s [...]
Prairie Cat Is Cary Pratt Fuzzy Logic Recordings Prairie Cat is Cary Pratt and Is Cary Pratt is the name of his latest release. Pratt is the lone member of the band, playing all the instruments, and writing the entire album. The album was [...]
London Grammar Truth Is A Beautiful Thing Ministry of Sound Recordings/Columbia Records British pop-trio London Grammar isn’t your mainstream, radio band. Their songs often span five and six minutes, featuring shorter verse lyrics and longer [...]
Alt-J Relaxer Atlantic Records/Infectious Music Leeds’ Alt-J reclaims their status as nerdy, literary indie-pop savants on their third full length LP, Relaxer. But before we talk about Relaxer, let’s talk context. Context is everything. As [...]
U2 The Joshua Tree (30th Anniversary Edition) Universal Music Music feeds nostalgia, it places moments in time, and for a certain generation, few records documented a time and place more precisely than U2’s fifth record, The Joshua Tree, in [...]
ShitKid Fish PNKSLM Recordings Sweden-based songwriter Åsa Söderqvist began releasing irreverent, bedroom-constructed garage pop under the name ShitKid on Soundcloud and Bandcamp early last year. It wasn’t long before audio streaming crate [...]
Amber Arcades Cannonball Heavenly Recordings Amber Arcade’s Cannonball EP is exactly what you would want out of a five track playlist from the sweet voice behind Fading Lines. Front-woman Annelotte de Graaf opens with a buoyant transformation of [...]
