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Helvetia – This Devastating Map (2020)
Since the mid-2000s, Helvetia has served as a vehicle for Jason Albertini’s cloudy and ever-shifting songwriting and homespun production. Albertini first worked in spaced-out slowcore band Duster and...
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No Joy – Motherhood (2020)
Montreal’s No Joy spent the first decade of their existence slowly expanding their doomy shoegaze template with increasingly adventurous production and songwriting. They’d grown from reverb-masked,...
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Thor & Friends – 3&4 (2020)
Thor & Friends music draws on the influence of American minimalist composers including Terry Riley and Steve Reich, but it’s also influenced by the strategies and experiments of Brian Eno, Aphex...
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El Ten Eleven – Tautology (2020)
Los Angeles-based instrumental rock duo El Ten Eleven have always made upbeat, energetic music that celebrates life, yet reflects on the loss of loved ones, with many of their releases including...
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Psychic Temple – Houses of the Holy (2020)
Psychic Temple mastermind Chris Schlarb believes that “there is no double album that would not be improved by removing its worst songs and making it a single album.” But with his new release, Houses...
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Joan of Arc – Tim Melina Theo Bobby (2020)
Sometime following the release of their gorgeous 2018 album 1984, long-running Chicago art rock experimentalists Joan of Arc decided to call it a day. The band formed in 1995 around the impassioned...
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Sleep Party People – Sleep Party People [10th Anniversary Edition] (2020)
Sitting in his bedroom in Copenhagen one evening in 2008, arched over a shivering piano in the twilit cool, Brian Batz found himself measuring out sounds in cascading waves. Centuries earlier, beloved...
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Dale Crover – Rat-A-Tat-Tat! (2021)
You don’t spend a few decades playing with the Melvins and not learn a few things about making music that’s heavy, and on Dale Crover‘s second solo album, 2020’s Rat-A-Tat-Tat!, the band’s longtime...
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Kishi Bashi – Emigrant EP (2021)
Kishi Bashi is known for innovation, for using pedals and effects to take his violin, his voice, and his ideas into the electronic pop-rock stratosphere. But a traditional singer-songwriter ethos has...
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jess joy – PATREEARCHY (2021)
In 2019, LA musician and performance artist Jessica Ramsey split with her longtime musical (and romantic) partner Andrew Martin, but on seemingly amicable terms. With their band Moon Honey now a thing...
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Lou Barlow – Reason to Live (2021)
Let’s face it, for those of us of a certain age, the musical heroes of our adolescence are getting old. It’s always a bracing reminder of your own mortality to be realise that the artists who adorned...
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Helvetia – Essential Aliens (2021)
In addition to work in both Duster and Built to Spill, Jason Albertini molded his long-running solo project Helvetia into various forms since it began around 2005. In 2020, ninth album This Devastating...
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Typical Sisters – Love Beam (2021)
The first two albums from Typical Sisters – their self-titled release from 2016 and Hungry Ghost from 2019 – showed a trio maneuvering through masterful compositions and well-oiled improvisation with...
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Tropical Fuck Storm – Deep States (2021)
Many artists claim to have written albums reflecting the mood of the COVID-19 lockdowns, but perhaps no one is as well equipped to capture the swirling madness of mundanity than Tropical Fuck Storm....
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SUUNS – The Witness (2021)
Whilst making The Witness, SUUNS sought to avoid their usual rambunctious soundscapes, swapping them for more mannered and subtle arrangements. In doing so, the group, now operating as a trio, hoped to...
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Deerhoof – Actually, You Can (2021)
Think of all the beauty, positivity and love that gets deemed ugly, negative and hateful by the self-proclaimed guardians of ‘common sense.’ We’d hardly be destroying society by dismantling their...
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Cedric Noel – Hang Time (2021)
It’s difficult for an artist to remain both prolific and good at their craft, but Cedric Noel‘s Hang Time — coming a year after his Patterning and Nothing Forever, Everything releases — assuages all...
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Mike Adams at His Honest Weight – Oscillate Wisely [10th Anniversary Edition]...
For ten years now, I’ve understood Oscillate Wisely as a play on the Smiths’ instrumental “Oscillate Wildly”–itself, of course, a pun on Morrissey’s muse, Oscar Wilde. This is not to say that anything...
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El Ten Eleven – New Year’s Eve (2022)
Struggles are sloshed away by tidal waves of champagne. Resolutions are boldly proclaimed or whispered in one’s own heart. A ball drops, and we expect a whole new life to spring out. But nothing is...
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Sound of Ceres – Emerald Sea (2022)
During their relatively brief career, New York’s Sound of Ceres have charted an intriguing evolution from the waifish dream pop of 2016’s Nostalgia for Infinity to the more abstract sci-fi leanings of...
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