Trace Mountains - "A Partner To Lean On" | Album Review
Connections - "Foreign Affairs" | Album Review
No Babies - "Someone To Watch Over Me" | Album Review
Cool American - "Better Luck Next Year Vol. 3" | Album Review
When not drumming in post-rock combo Strange Ranger or DIY pop rock trio Snow Roller, he's cranking out high-quality 90s-style indie pop as Cool American. While his full length outings tend to be ensemble-based rock records, the Better Luck Next Year EPs feel more like loosely-tethered collections of sketches, but no less compelling.
Erik Phillips - “One” | Album Review
There's a purity of vision that remains consistent throughout these ten songs. At best, this means the album flows by nice and smoothly. The flip-side critique would be that the whole thing is a bit samey, but there's no shame in letting this simply be what it wants to be. Phillips has their palette and they know how to operate within a set of limitations.