Jesca Hoop Memories Are Now Sub Pop Records Displaced American (now in England) singer-songwriter Jesca Hoop releases this nine-track album, Memories Are Now, to critical fanfare. Having honed her craft over the last 10 years, Jesca shows us [...]
Communions Blue Fat Possum Records Hailing from Copenhagen, Communions have finally released their debut album. This is one highly anticipated release. The band features brothers Martin (vocal and guitar) and Mads Rehof (on bass), as well as [...]
Elbow Little Fictions Polydor Records/Concord Music Group I am going to be honest; I was a bit nervous when I heard that Elbow was recording a new album. Their last album, 2014’s The Take Off and Landing of Everything, was so strong and nearly [...]
Surfer Blood Snowdonia Joyful Noise Recordings Surfer Blood’s fourth studio album Snowdonia is out via Joyful Noise Records. Ironically, this is a band whose name just makes all too much sense. They are quintessentially Surf Rock and their [...]
Nash The Slash And You Thought You Were Normal Artoffact Records Originally released in 1982 as the follow-up to 1981’s Decomposing, Nash went a bit more commercial with this release. However, that aspect is not reflected with this reissue, and [...]
Nash The Slash Decomposing Artoffact Records Originally released in 1981 (at the height of New Wave and the Eurobeat), Nash The Slash went back to his roots and recorded instrumental music, and created a most unusual EP/Album. Let me explain: it [...]
Aquaserge Laisse Ça Être Crammed Discs Aquaserge is a fun and experimental pop super group. Its members have graced the stages with dreamy indie connoisseurs like Tame Impala, Stereolab, Melody’s Echo Chamber, Acid Mothers Temple, and Aksak [...]
Tobin Sprout The Universe And Me Burger Records This is Tobin Sprout’s sixth solo album and first album in seven years. The Guided By Voices guitarist found his voice by going solo. Although he does reunite with GBV periodically, he seems to be [...]
Louise Burns Young Mopes Light Organ Records Louise Burns is a 30 year-old singer/songwriter, and she has been a professional musician for 20 years. At age the incredibly young age of 11, she made her debut with the band Lillix. Over the last 20 [...]
Frederick The Younger Human Child Independent It is not very often that an album can lead you on a psychedelic trip into worlds beyond your imagination, but Frederick The Younger has accomplished such a feat with their new album, Human Child. [...]
The Dig Bloodshot Tokyo Roll Call Records American rock band The Dig has released their latest album, Bloodshot Tokyo, and it may be their best one yet. Bloodshot Tokyo is for those people who never knew that they loved the music of the 1960’s [...]
Duke Garwood Garden Of Ashes Heavenly Recordings The blues tends to be rather conservative, with change occurring only slowly. The south London area has long been a major centre for Britain’s blues scene, and it was the location for one of the [...]
Corroncho Corroncho 2 Expression Records Corroncho is made up of artists Lucho Brieva and Phil Manzanera of Roxy Music fame. But Manzanera is much more than just Roxy Music. Over the past four decades, he has produced a huge catalog of solo [...]
Fred Thomas Changer Polyvinyl Records Fred Thomas is a songwriter/producer who has been creating a steady stream of material for fifteen years. After releasing a series of singles, Thomas was encouraged to focus on putting an album together. [...]
The Modern Savage Unwilling Participants The Modern Savage Lacking the cookie cutter style of music we see too often in the music industry, The Modern Savage is bringing a new sound to the stage. Founded in 2011, the group is a five-member [...]
Cloud Nothings Life Without Sound Carpark Records While attending high school in Cleveland, Cloud Nothing’s 25 year-old frontman, Dylan Baldi, would spend hours driving around the suburbs listening to music. If it sounded okay to him in [...]
Sleater-Kinney Live In Paris Sub Pop This legendary feminist-rock trio made their mark throughout the late 90s and early 2000s as a raw, guitar driven, politically charged powerhouse. The all-female group garnered themselves a loyal fan base and [...]
Danny Michel Khlebnikov Maple Music Khlebnikov is a poetic and charming collection of tales about the journey on a ship sailing through chilling waters. Right from the get-go, with the crashing waves and rickety sound of the ship’s floorboards, [...]
Bill & Phil Songs Of Darkness And Despair Housecore Records Something dark and heavy emerged this week from the minds of an unlikely duo. Bill Moseley, a cherished horror-film figure with a cult following, and metal icon Philip H. Anselmo of [...]
Drab Majesty The Demonstration DAIS Records Deb Demure’s powerful voice, the beat of hypnotic synthpop, layers of cosmic energy, and lyrics that can be read as contemporary magic spells: this is Drab Majesty. I became aware of Drab Majesty [...]
Danny Michel Khlebnikov Maple Music Danny Michel has always been an avid storyteller in his music. From painting bleak images of displaced animals in an increasingly urbanized world on “Feather, Fur, and Fin”, to the sombre tale of a mundane [...]
Jonathan Roy Mr. Optimist Blues Warner Music Canada/Siena Records “Pro-athlete-turned-pop-star” isn’t a narrative that you’d typically expect to hear in the music industry, but it’s a narrative that applies to singer-songwriter Jonathan Roy. Roy [...]
The Grateful Dead The Grateful Dead: 50th Anniversary Deluxe Edition Rhino Records The Grateful Dead’s self-titled debut never really got the credit it deserves. Even the band was quick to dismiss it following its release, as many of the final [...]
Austra Future Politics Pink Fizz Records Kate Stelmanis and her main counterpart, Maya Postepski, are Austra: the electronic music producers from Ontario, Canada. The release of their third studio album, Future Politics, is the most ambitious to [...]
