Pfarmers – Our Puram (2016)
…Our Puram, the second album in two years from Pfarmers, a project featuring Danny Seim of Menomena, Bryan Devendorf of The National, and Dave Nelson, a musician who has toured with David Byrne, St....
View ArticleKishi Bashi – Sonderlust (2016)
On September 16th, singer and multi-instrumentalist Kishi Bashi release a new album. Titled Sonderlust, it marks his third full-length following 2014’s Lighght and his first big release since last...
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Joan of Arc – He’s Got the Whole This Land Is Your Land in His Hand [VIP...
It makes sense that Joan of Arc would take its name from a Catholic saint: There’s a certain percentage of indie-rock music fans who pray at the altar of every project the Kinsella brothers undertake....
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Half Japanese – Hear the Lions Roar (2017)
Half Japanese began in the late ’70s as a band of primitive outsiders, breaking musical rules that founding brothers Jad and David Fair never even learned. But it didn’t take them long to become...
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Tall Tall Trees – Freedays (2017)
Freedays is the third LP from indie folk project Tall Tall Trees, but in a couple of significant ways, it’s really a first. Both the 2009 eponymous debut and 2012’s Moment were created with an official...
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WHY? – Moh Lhean (2017)
At certain moments in time, there is vast pleasure in the seeming frivolity of art. It is a necessary escape, an important release and a valuable form of expression in the midst of chaos. In times like...
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Richard Edwards – Lemon Cotton Candy Sunset (2017)
Lemon Cotton Candy Sunset is the solo debut of Richard Edwards, known for over a decade prior as the man behind the thoughtful indie rock of Margot & the Nuclear So and So’s. It’s not really a...
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Sleep Party People – Lingering (2017)
Denmark’s Sleep Party People is the musical project of one Brian Batz who creates a dreamy type of pop blended with a bit of ambient and shoegaze. The result is mesmerizing and otherworldly with...
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Psychic Temple – IV (2017)
Chris Schlarb’s Psychic Temple is an ever-changing collective with a revolving door lineup including dozens of musicians, and a similarly eclectic range of styles. Through jazz, country, drone, and...
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Dale Crover – The Fickle Finger of Fate (2017)
There’s a school of thought that says there’s no reason for a longtime member of a working band to make a solo album unless they want to do something they can’t do within the context of the group. Dale...
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Jad Fair, Tenniscoats & Norman Blake – Raindrops (2017)
The legendary Jad Fair has teamed up with Norman Blake (Teenage Fanclub) and Japanese mainstays Tenniscoats to create some of the most endearing content you’re likely to experience outside of an...
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Sound of Ceres – The Twin (2017)
…The mysterious tale of The Twin, the second full-length from Sound of Ceres, exists in myriad permutations, too: a new album, a mesmerizing live show, videos, an Alastair Reynolds short story… and...
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Philip Glenn – Outsider (2018)
There’s something evident about a good song – something that ties square dance music to punk rock anthems. A good interpreter knows how to look below the surface and see through to the core. On his...
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The Low Anthem – The Salt Doll Went to Measure the Depth of the Sea (2018)
Formed in 2007 by best friends, Ben Knox Miller and Jeff Prystowsky, The Low Anthem grew from DIY ethos in the late-aughts to semi-accidental success. Having originally self-released What the Crow...
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Oneida – Romance (2018)
…Oneida first came blasting out of Brooklyn over 20 years ago, with an in-your-face sound that slammed together psychedelia, post-punk and garage rock. They then spent a good chunk of the last decade...
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No Joy & Sonic Boom – No Joy / Sonic Boom EP (2018)
No Joy / Sonic Boom is a surprising experiment that blends dreamy shoegaze vocals and veteran electronic production. This collaboration represents something completely different put together by No Joy...
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Yonatan Gat – Universalists (2018)
Usually when critics fawn over anyone “exploring different styles,” or “experimenting with cultural influences” they mean a pop musician who’s found some old Fela records and a dusty samba whistle. But...
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Sugar Candy Mountain – Do Right (2018)
Integrating lush chamber-psych arrangements with a cornucopia of breezy vintage pop inspirations, Oakland’s Sugar Candy Mountain maintain their sunny West Coast feel on Do Right, their follow-up to...
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Richard Edwards – Verdugo (2018)
Richard Edwards‘ second album since setting Margot & the Nuclear So and So‘s aside, Verdugo finds him back in the studio with producer Rob Schnapf (Elliott Smith, Beck) and the same backing band,...
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Joan of Arc – 1984 (2018)
In 2017, 20 years and 20-some albums after their full-length debut, Chicago avant rockers Joan of Arc made their first appearance on a few of the Billboard side charts with the improvisation-based He’s...
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