Your Old Droog & Tha God Fahim - "Tha YOD Fahim" | Album Review
Currently riding atop a great wave of rapid, gilt-edged output, we are gifted Tha God Fahim and Your Old Droog’s newest collaborative LP, Tha YOD Fahim; an organic, roots-futuristic expression of the modern day epoch. Ever-sharpening blades, we hear the pair's lyricism reach radiant heights with profound wordage and natural cadence.
Fake Fruit - "Fake Fruit" | Album Review
On their debut, Fake Fruit show they are seasoned and firm footed in their musical attack, playing fully to their strengths while also exhibiting a mischievous streak. The sequencing on the record is masterful and never lets the record fall flat, allowing for the various tempos and moods to shine brightly.
Cassandra Jenkins - "An Overview On Phenomenal Nature" | Album Review
PJ Harvey - "Stories From The City, Stories From The Sea" [Reissue] | Album Review
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When Stories from the City, Stories from the Sea arrived in 2000, it did so as the nexus of any number of narratives that had been building to that point. For all of the believers, it was Harvey’s first really “mature” album, the apex of her ability as a songwriter, wherein all the shadow and sex of her music finally erupted into defiant Y2K apocalypticism.
Mamaleek - "Come And See" | Album Review
The Green Child - "Shimmering Basset" | Album Review
The Green Child began as a long-distance collaboration between band members Raven Mahon (ex-Grass Widow) and Mikey Young (Total Control, Eddy Current Suppression Ring). Shimmering Basset finds the duo now united in Rye, Australia. The results of their newfound proximity are some of their strongest and most distinctive work yet.
IAN SWEET - "Show Me How You Disappear" | Album Review
The Boys With The Perpetual Nervousness - "Songs From Another Life" | Album Review
Songs From Another Life, the latest album from Spanish/Swedish supergroup The Boys With The Perpetual Nervousness, is one of the first Bandcamp-core albums in recent memory to properly embody power pop’s platonic ideals. The album exists in an alternate reality where ‘60s worship and alt-rock sensibilities never cross-pollinated.
Katy Kirby - "Cool Dry Place" | Album Review
Black Nash - "Black Nash" | Album Review
Lorelle Meets The Obsolete - "01052019 en vivo con Martín Delgado" | Album Review
Recorded on May 1st, 2019 as a radio session for Aire Libre 105.3 FM in Mexico City, all but one of the tracks are from their fifth album, 2019’s De Facto. 01052019 is unceasingly intense. A description that already fit the duo well, it does even more in this performance, with the band joined by Fernando Nuti, Andrea Davì and José Orozco.
The Weather Station - "Ignorance" | Album Review
The era of climate change is upon us, and this is what makes The Weather Station’s new record Ignorance so important. Tamara Lindeman has created a record unique to our time of impending climate disaster. She shares her experience with personal grief, loss, love, and joy through the lens of her climate anxieties.
Population II - "À la Ô Terre" | Album Review
One of the most wild and beautifully exploratory albums released in 2020 came from Population II, a psych-rock trio based out of Montreal. À la Ô Terre, comes to you from powerhouse psych label Castle Face Records, and is the soundtrack for a journey in and out of the chaotic edges as galaxies collide.
Editrix - "Tell Me I'm Bad" | Album Review
On their debut full-length Tell Me I’m Bad, Editrix shifts through permutations of metal and punk faster than you can throw subgenre descriptors at them. For a solid thirty minutes, the lean and loud Massachusetts trio twists and turns through mathy riffs and pummeling breakdowns, phasing in and out of pocket grooves.
The Fragiles - "On and On" | Album Review
The Fragiles are the brainchild of songwriter David Settle, a busy man who holds down multiple bands and releases albums worth of material every year. On and On is a wonderfully chewed up and fuzzed out record, whose lo-fi palette can almost keep the excellent pop songwriting at arm’s length, almost.
Lina Tullgren - "Visiting" | Album Review
Lina Tullgren has reunited with their first instrument, the violin. While featured in fleeting moments on Free Cell, Tullgren instead recasts their fate with the instrument in the form of veracious improvisations. It imparts a new language of sound, moving through the few crystalline zones with a tenderness and curiosity.
Lorelle Meets The Obsolete - "Re-Facto" | Album Review
With half of its four tracks being remixes from 2019’s De Facto — and the other two sounding like they actually were on it — Lorelle Meets The Obsolete’s Re-Facto, released in 2020, was intended as a companion piece EP to the former. The previously unreleased songs drive home the point that they are independent sisters who are even better together.
Growing Stone - "I Had Everybody Snowed" | Album Review
I Had Everybody Snowed is a celebration for Skylar Sarkis, the songwriter behind the project Growing Stone. Its release date, November 30th of 2020, marked three years of sobriety for the musician. The seven year journey of conception to completion shows ten separate scenes, letting the listener come to their own conclusion.
Goat Girl - "On All Fours" | Album Review
On All Fours, from London based Goat Girl, dials up the danceable grooves under the floating psychedelic flourishes that were ever present on the previous recordings. There is a more pronounced musicality on display here with flowing rhythm and elastic bass providing a more fluid base for a new form of musical exploration.