Fly Anakin - "Pixote" | Album Review
Alien Boy - "Don't Know What I Am" | Album Review
Don’t Know What I Am, the band’s latest LP, is another perfect name. The record holds Sonia Weber’s established perspective throughout, affirming the confession of the title; but in a testament to the love we receive from others, it embraces gratitude and sunshine in ways that lead to the band’s strongest proclamation yet.
Rose, Water, Fountain - "Rose, Water, Fountain" | Album Review
Here come Rose, Water, Fountain, somewhere from the outskirts of Boston to actually hit that nineties indie rock sound right on the nail's head, and not only that. The duo somehow make sure that it perfectly fits into all that is going on now in music, as if Olivia Tremor Control or Dressy Bessy never went away.
Upper Wilds - "Venus" | Album Review
Wednesday - "Twin Plagues" | Album Review
Red Fang - "Arrows" | Album Review
Their fifth release (and fourth from Relapse Records), Arrows, finally sees the group match their colorful personality with a bright, psychedelic aesthetic. Chugging tracks like “Unreal Estate” and “Anodyne” will please the old fist-pumping fans, and the punk-adjacent “My Disaster” and “Rabbits in Hives” show they can still kick it into high gear.
Sunk Heaven - "THE FVCKHEAѪTED LVNG" | Album Review
THE FVCKHEAѫTED LVNG is the latest full-length studio album from Sunk Heaven. Standing at around 38 minutes, this release breezes by considering how layered and intricate it feels. Pulling from industrial, no-wave, and even occasionally IDM and harsh noise, this release never stays in the corner of one particular sub-genre.
Perfect Angels - "Exit From The Ultra-World" | Album Review
Perfect Angels is Zach Phillips on any instrument you can think of together with a lead singer Olia Eichenbaum, as well as a cast of revolving collaborators. Musically, the project creates exquisite off-kilter soft pop, with bossa nova as some sort of a base, with Phillips, Eichenbaum and their cohorts going off in every direction.
Pink Siifu - "Gumbo'!" | Album Review
Birds of Maya - "Valdez" | Album Review
Valdez, the most recent release by Philadelphia's psychedelic rock masters/champions Birds Of Maya, represents the shared momentary humanistic expressions of creative freedom aesthetic to absolute perfection; an exiled memory in the apocalyptic nightmare - one which has the ability to awaken a drifting consciousness from its haze.
Delivery - "Yes We Do" | Album Review
A classically-amalgamated DIY project from Melbourne, the five-piece comes from several other bands, including Future Suck, Kosmetika, Blonde Revolver, and The Vacant Smiles. Yes We Do, was released via the always reliable Spoilsport Records, using post-punk as a mere base to build new wave synths, pop flourishes, and garage guitars.
This Is Lorelei - "EP #21" | Album Review
The Murlocs - "Bittersweet Demons" | Album Review
Melbourne’s The Murlocs return with their fifth album to provide some much-needed bluesy brightness to listener’s lives. Bittersweet Demons, again released by the excellent Flightless Records, courses on a long and winding path, each turn infectious and melodious. It’s a soulful and rowdy record, rollicking and ballsy.
Teke::Teke - "Shirushi" | Album Review
How about some mutant Japanese surf from Toronto? Well, if you didn't have a chance to previously encounter this seven-piece band through their singles, Shirushi, the debut album by Teke::Teke, is a perfect start. Actually, it is a perfect start for all of us, as it is an excellent surprise, out of almost nowhere.
Smile Machine - "Bye For Now" | Album Review
Smile Machine may be a new name, but Jordyn Blakely is most definitely a familiar face on the music grid, having drummed for a cadre of who's who in the "indie" music universe. On Bye for Now, Blakely places herself front and center of a muscular and versatile EP that shows off her range as a musician and so much more.
Golden Apples - "Shadowland" | Album Review
Like so much music created during the pandemic, it’s hard not to look at things through that lens of isolation. Whether or not it was Russell Edling who had spent that year in Shadowland – or even what Shadowland is – is up for interpretation. Was it the literal confines of his home or was it something more metaphorical?
Stinkin Donuts - "Heavy Feathers" | Album Review
“No genre is my new favorite genre,” reads his bio, along with some stuff about pendulum’s swinging and heat domes. You could call this “outsider music,” even though it’s definitely “insider” enough that the melodies know how to stay in your head. Stinkin Donuts expertly toes this line between here and there.
May Rio - "Easy Bammer" | Album Review
Easy Bammer is the debut record from May Rio, the dreamy NYC indie pop project of May Rio Sembera. Although a bit of a necessary departure into hazy lo-fi bedroom pop due to the unfortunate nature of humanity and a pandemic, the record carries much of the same charm Rio’s band Poppies have in abundance.
PACKS - "Take The Cake" | Album Review
PACKS’ debut Take The Cake has all the unassuming beauty of nature in suburbia; subtle and spare, the album follows Madeline Link as she drifts through post-adolescent malaise. The romantic gloss Link imparts on everyday life doesn’t hide the disconnect between Link and the world around her as she struggles to find her place within it.