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Pearl & The Oysters - "Coast 2 Coast" | Album Review

Pearl & The Oysters - "Coast 2 Coast" | Album Review

Maximalist and controlled, Pearl & The Oysters have created a fully formed concept and sense of self. Far from Brave New World, this album quite nearly suggests there is no dystopia (or utopia) in the human being-toward-technology. It just is and the party is happening no matter what. You can love this fate and join in the dance.

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ALBUM OF THE WEEK: Poison Ruïn - "Härvest"

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ALBUM OF THE WEEK: Poison Ruïn - "Härvest"

Härvest, Poison Ruïn’s second album overall (depending how you look at it) and first record together with their new label, retains the band’s flair for the medieval, distilled in the toil and struggle of the era’s poor and working class, a sentiment that hasn’t changed all that much in modern times.

Yours Are The Only Ears - "We Know The Sky" | Album Review

Yours Are The Only Ears - "We Know The Sky" | Album Review

We Know the Sky, the sophomore full length album from Yours Are the Only Ears (aka Susannah Cutler), provides the listener with heartfelt melodies and intensity, manifesting itself through nature and vivid imagery. Cutler's songs are full of spirit and tender ruminations on the travails of love and the ever changing world around us.

Jana Horn - "The Window Is The Dream" | Album Review

Jana Horn - "The Window Is The Dream" | Album Review

Musically, The Window is the Dream, is a tightly woven textile, with minute intricacies. Vibraphone, bass, guitars, and synthesizers all cooperate or battle with Jana Horn’s voice to illuminate her images via purposeful poetry. The phrasing and delivery of the lyrics is laconic; her poetry is delivered as such. It is magical, uncompromising.

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ALBUM OF THE WEEK: Meyhem Lauren, DJ Muggs, & Madlib - "Champagne For Breakfast"

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ALBUM OF THE WEEK: Meyhem Lauren, DJ Muggs, & Madlib - "Champagne For Breakfast"

While Meyhem Lauren will forever represent Queens, Champagne For Breakfast, comes as a historical West Coast moment, the first collaboration between Madlib and DJ Muggs. A meeting of undeniable giants, the legendary producers work in unison together to design the wavy elegance and the minimalist psych-laced blueprint.

Whitney's Playland - "Sunset Sea Breeze" | Album Review

Whitney's Playland - "Sunset Sea Breeze" | Album Review

Whitney’s Playland describe their music as exploring the “usual things in life: love and loss,” adding that these explorations occasionally have a satirical tinge to them. While the descriptor is accurate, the way in which they approach these reflections on Sunset Sea Breeze is more clever than their Bandcamp copy gives them credit for.

Cheekface - "Don't Ask (B-Sides)" | Album Review

Cheekface - "Don't Ask (B-Sides)" | Album Review

Too Much To Ask, which packed with the trademarked “talk-singing” of the band, as well as incredibly danceable beats and fun instrumental breakdowns, turned out to have a few b-sides that didn’t make the cut of the final album. Don’t Ask (b-sides) is just the extra dose of Cheekface fun that any indie rock, power-pop punk fan will enjoy. 

Dougie Poole - "The Rainbow Wheel of Death" | Album Review

Dougie Poole - "The Rainbow Wheel of Death" | Album Review

Recorded live in five days amidst beer and BBQ (according to the liner notes), the songs and characters populating Poole’s latest are full, well-thought and well-executed. His voice sounds better than ever, and though much of the psych tinge of his previous work is gone, he finds himself grounded in a fresh spin on classic Americana.