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The Ophelias – Almost (2018)
Through a blend of understated rock, baroque pop and wide-skied atmospheres, The Ophelias explore the juxtapositions of youth in their album Almost. Having formed the band while still in high school,...
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Optiganally Yours – O.Y. in Hi-Fi (2018)
Though a whopping 18 years separate Optiganally Yours‘ second album Optiganally Yours Presents: Exclusively Talentmaker and its follow-up O.Y. in Hi-Fi, the duo never disappeared completely. Rob Crow...
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Swamp Dogg – Love, Loss, and Auto-Tune (2018)
Saying that a Swamp Dogg album is kind of weird is a bit like saying there was a Tuesday last week; given Jerry Williams, Jr.’s frequently bent take on the conventions of Southern soul, you expect the...
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Sleep Party People – Lingering Pt. II (2018)
Written, performed, recorded, and produced by brainchild Brian Batz, this is the counterpart of 2017’s ‘Lingering’. With Lingering Pt. II Batz finishes his artistic cycle, showcasing his instrumental...
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J Fernandez – Occasional Din (2018)
On his 2015 debut, Many Levels of Laughter, Chicago singer/songwriter J Fernandez created a contained world of neatly organized bedroom pop, inspecting themes of solitude and disconnection with...
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Eerie Wanda – Pet Town (2019)
Eerie Wanda is the brainchild of audio and visual artist Marina Tadic. Born to Croatian parents in the former Yugoslavia, Marina became a political refugee when she was just 6 years old. Forced to...
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Good Fuck – Good Fuck (2019)
Armed with music-creation software and high-concept inspiration from a selection of books, the duo of Jenny Pulse and Tim Kinsella dove headfirst into the creation of a twisted, meditative, and...
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Big Business – The Beast You Are (2019)
What would you get if Jon Lord had replaced Jimmy Page in Led Zeppelin? It wouldn’t be Big Business, that’s for sure. But the splashy thunder of Coady Willis’ drumming bears some resemblance to John...
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Son Lux – Reissues & Remnants (2019)
Reissues & Remnants features the first two, long out-of-print Son Lux albums, and the NEW album Remnants, a collection of rare and previously unreleased recordings spanning from 2008 to 2017....
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Kishi Bashi – Omoiyari (2019)
K. Ishibashi has kept many instruments and techniques at his disposal — violins and loop pedals and layering effects that give his music a symphonic, hyper-multitracked sound — but the language he...
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Mike Adams at His Honest Weight – There Is No Feeling Better (2019)
From the opening “And Your Bird Can Sing” guitar figure and the sweet, keening sadness of the lead vocal onward, “Pressing Mesh,” the opening track on 2019’s There Is No Feeling Better, makes it clear...
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Coughy – Ocean Hug (2019)
Shortly after the release of the Beatles’ ‘Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds’ some industrious sort figured out that maybe there was a not so veiled reference to LSD in the title. It’s hard to say if the...
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WHY? – AOKOHIO (2019)
Founded in 1998, the Los Angeles based Anticon collective has become one of the most curiously individual of 21st century groupings. Taking the wordiest and nerdiest tendencies of hip hop – notably the...
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Tall Tall Trees – A Wave of Golden Things (2020)
In the years since the group’s self-titled debut and 2012 follow-up, Moment, Tall Tall Trees has operated as the solo indie folk project of singer and songwriter Mike Savino, an upright bassist by...
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Swamp Dogg – Sorry You Couldn’t Make It (2020)
The brilliance of Jerry Williams Jr.’s work as Swamp Dogg — the original D-O double G — is his refusal to stop evolving his alien soul. Despite working with such classic sounds, Swamp Dogg records...
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David Tranchina Large-ish Ensemble – The Ogre (2020)
No matter whose definition you use, jazz is essentially a music of innovation and personal expression. The best recordings of jazz – and of music that bears a degree of jazz influence – carry a sense...
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Kidbug – Kidbug (2020)
The sound of Kidbug will be familiar to anyone who was alive during the great Grunge deluge of the late ’80s/early ’90s as well as anyone who might have discovered Nirvana in the years that followed....
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Deerhoof – Future Teenage Cave Artists (2020)
Last year, Deerhoof celebrated 25 years of existence as a band. For the occasion, the group reissued its first full-length outings: the emergent The Man, the King, the Girl; the scrappy Holdypaws; and...
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OHMME – Fantasize Your Ghost (2020)
After the release of Ohmme‘s debut album, 2018’s Parts, the group went on a lengthy tour that took them out of their hometown of Chicago and across the United States. Spending several months wandering...
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Let It Come Down – Songs We Sang In Our Dreams (2020)
Kramer, Let It Come Down’s main songwriter, fosters the sort of mystique you might expect of someone who goes by his last name alone. Born in 1958 and adopted by a Long Island car salesman and his...
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