Review: Melvins – “Five-Legged Dog” October 14, 2021 The Melvins, God bless them, always have been an act eager to revisit their canon, to dive deep into the discography, and see what new… Continue Reading
Review: Sufjan Stevens and Angelo De Augustine – “A Beginner’s Mind” October 8, 2021 The name of Sufjan Stevens and Angelo De Augustine’s new collaborative LP is A Beginner’s Mind, a reference to a Zen Buddhist concept – shoshin – that inspired the… Continue Reading
Review: Directions – “Echoes” (Anniversary Edition) September 13, 2021 A seemingly incidental sliver of indie music history is being given the special edition re-release treatment by Temporary Residence, and God bless the label… Continue Reading
Review: Low – “Hey What” September 13, 2021 The record starts with a muted buzzsaw and a recording of unnamable industrial noise but, don’t be mistaken: Low’s new LP is not the… Continue Reading
Review: Clara Engel – “Dressed In Borrowed Light” August 24, 2021 Clara Engel makes skeletal music whose bizarre sense of Minimalist scale is only outstripped by the haunted and almost foreboding nature of the soundscapes… Continue Reading
Review: Eluvium – “Virga II” August 24, 2021 When ambient composer Matthew Cooper released Virga I in December 2019 – ages ago, as the world turns – he had no reason to foresee what… Continue Reading
Review: Musk Ox – “Inheritance” August 3, 2021 Inheritance, the third outing from Canadian chamber folk trio Musk Ox and the follow-up to their critically acclaimed 2014 LP, Woodfall, begins modestly with the… Continue Reading
Review: Erik Della Penna – “Rainy” July 13, 2021 Ladies and gentlemen, Gotham’s antique-garde marches onward! Though banjo tinkerer and carnival barker/band leader Curtis Eller continues to rage raggedy in the North Carolina… Continue Reading
Review: Raphael Weinroth-Browne – “Worlds Within Live” July 13, 2021 What can we learn when a musician re-records a post-classical solo work, without an audience, then bills it and releases it as a live… Continue Reading
Review: Ramona Cordova – “Naive” July 6, 2021 Home recording has been a blessing to the indie world, a truly democratizing force in a musical toolkit constructed out of DIY ethos. Yes,… Continue Reading
