Music Review: Frost*, “Others E.P.”
Frost*'s Others brings dark, modern sounds.
Review: Stuck – “Change Is Bad”
Holy mother of fuck, how did this one slip below the radar? Born Yesterday Records released the Chicago quartet Stuck’s debut LP, Change Is Bad, mid-pandemic in April and I…
ALBUM REVIEW: MATT WILSON & HIS ORCHESTRA, “When I Was A Writer”
When I Was A Writer is the full-length debut from former Trip Shakespeare leader Matt Wilson’s latest project “Matt Wilson & his Orchestra.” The album was recorded at Wilson’s home…
ALBUM REVIEW: SUNSHINE BOYS, “Work and Love”
Though Sunshine Boys have been referred to as indie rock royalty, they prefer to think of themselves in more modest terms: as three musicians with the good fortune to find…
RE:Visit — Kansas, “In The Spirit Of Things” (1988)
Even a lesser Kansas work—and In The Spirit Of Things is an obviously and significantly flawed album—rewards deep and repeated engagement from its listeners.
Review: Sufjan Stevens and Lowell Brams – “Aporia”
Lowell Brams has been part of singer/songwriter Sufjan Stevens life since Stevens was barely out of toddlerhood. Brams – the titular “Lowell” of Stevens’ excellent 2015 solo LP Carrie &…
Review: The Strokes, “The New Abnormal”
The Strokes are feeling the Eighties and I’m here for it. Their first full-length since 2013’s unfortunate but aptly named Comedown Machine, The New Abnormal stands as the first Strokes…
Review: Murder for Girls – “Done In The Dark”
When I reviewed Murder for Girls’ last LP, All The Pretty Stars, for the SWPA-based zine Punksburgh back in 2017, I cited as the group’s forebears and immediate influences Babes…
ALBUM REVIEW: SHELBY LYNNE, S/T
Grammy Award-winning singer/songwriter Shelby Lynne has released her self-titled album via Thirty Tigers. Critics and fans alike have praised the powerful release which finds the celebrated artist at her most…
MOVIE REVIEW: “Other Music”
Other Music is the eponymously-titled story of the New York City record store which existed between 1996 and 2016. Located on West 4th Street in Greenwich Village, right across the…
Review: Gaelynn Lea – “Rebuild”
Man, Gaelynn Lea knows how to wring the sentimentality out of an Electro Harmonix. The Duluth, Minnesota-bred composer/songwriter, who won the NPR Tiny Desk Contest in 2016, enchants listeners with…
New Breidablik Ambient Album, Omicron, Explored
If you follow ambient music like the kind composed by Tangerine Dream, then you spend a fair amount of time checking out any good ambient artists for their contributions to…