Cory Hanson - "Western Cum" | Album Review
TEKE::TEKE - "Hagata" | Album Review
Lisa/Liza - "Breaking and Mending" | Album Review
Esther Rose - "Safe To Run" | Album Review
Mui Zyu - "Rotten Bun For An Eggless Century" | Album Review
Yo La Tengo - "This Stupid World" | Album Review
What makes Yo La Tengo tick so well, with their latest album, This Stupid World, being no exception in that respect? It could be the personal synergy between the members. It could be the fact that they all possess an almost encyclopedic knowledge of every form of modern music there is, being able to reproduce it in any shape or form.
Nighttime - "Keeper Is The Heart" | Album Review
Galore - "Blush" | Album Review
San Francisco's Galore certainly fall into the category of artists who have picked up on the “New Zealand” sound. Their initial album and particularly their latest five song EP, Blush, are brim-full of both catchy melodies and uncluttered, seemingly simple, guitar-driven arrangements, airy and full of bright melodies that stick to your ears.
Vivi Milne - "Solstice" | Album Review
All you can learn about Vivi Milne online is that she’s from Sacramento and that she’s released six albums so far, of which Solstice is the latest. That can be a double-edged sword if the music isn’t up to a scratch. Luckily for Milne and her listeners, her concept works, and it shrouds her persona, as well as her art, in a bit of a veiled mystery.
Nightshift - "Made Of The Earth" | Album Review
With the Glasgow, Scotland collective Nightshift, it seems we can actually talk about both intellectual lyrics and music. The band only started in 2019, comprising four musicians already playing elsewhere - Eothen Stearn, Chris White, Andrew Doig, and Georgia Harris. We encounter that intellectual tag right from the start.
Heather Trost - "Desert Flowers" | Album Review
Mushfoot - "Time Before Land" | Album Review
It turns out that a slowed-down, remote, process gave Mushfoot ample time to think these songs thoroughly through, giving them the recording touches these detailed, layered songs require. They pick up on strands laid before them by the likes of My Bloody Valentine, Broadcast, Deerhoof, Stephen Merritt, and more.
Melody's Echo Chamber - "Unfold" | Album Review
Unfold is a lost album, recorded right after her debut with Tame Impala's Kevin Parker, who co-produced and played along with Prochet on the seven songs. Whatever the reasons were to delay the release of this album are irrelevant now, as all the seven tracks here show that she has her ear on the essence what psychedelic pop should sound like.
Kamikaze Palm Tree - "Mint Chip" | Album Review
Dylan Hadley and Cole Berliner, the LA duo better known as Kamikaze Palm Tree, are definitely not afraid to dabble with art-rock/pop or to take musical risks. Mint Chip, their second album (and first for Drag City) shows that taking musical risks can pay off if you know what you are doing and have the imagination and capabilities to do so.
Attia Taylor - "Space Ghost" | Album Review
Naima Bock - "Giant Palm" | Album Review
Haress - "Ghosts" | Album Review
Whatever Elizabeth Still and David Hand did musically before they moved from the bustling city streets of Liverpool to the hills of Shropshire was probably different (they say it was much louder) than what they came up with as Haress on Ghosts. The move also prompted a kind of musical collective, with Haress contracting and expanding.
William Basinski & Janek Schaefer - “ . . . on reflection " | Album Review
“Repetition is the mother of learning” and “the devil is in the details”. These are the maxims William Basinski and Janek Schaefer abide by here. Picking up on piano passages recorded anywhere between 2014 and 2022, the duo explore how weaving passages can create repetition, but small changes can make a big difference in sound.
Jeanines - "Don't Wait For A Sign" | Album Review
While the sound of Jeanines - the duo of Alicia Jeanine and Jed Smith - goes deeper than just an emulation of the Sarah Records sound, with Don't Wait For A Sign, the pair latches on to that deep running vein of wistful, melodic pop. It’s the type of music where you have to say what you have to say in two minutes or less.