Teton - "Dump" | Album Review
Slender - "Time on Earth" | Album Review
Sweet Baby Jesus - "Discount Magic" | Album Review
It begins off-kilter, somewhat unsettled and stays for a moment but lays in quick: anthemic guitar work, yowling sax, and the chords changing on the last eighth of the bar (that classic anticipation and lift). And, my god, the vocals… Who is singing and who teaches one to sing like that? Such strength and wildness,
Pictorial Candi - "Secret Salts" | Album Review
Secret Salts drips with isolation, but of a different sort. Through cresting synths and bare drum sequences singer Candelaria Saenz Valiente embodies sadness as though falling apart, no yearning or desperation. Loneliness doesn’t even do it justice. Emptiness. Fragility. Stepping up to the plate regardless. Unwinding.
Zach Burba - "Your Music" | Album Review
This collection of new work by iji's Zach Burba feels like a homecoming. It's a collage of home-studio tracks for which Burba casually incorporated friends and absorbed their worlds. It takes a bevy of styles and moods and places them under the same warm haze. Your Music lends credence to an embrace of process, method, and habit.